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TimeStar sequences predict extraordinary solar activity will begin with the January 21, 2000 lunar eclipse for a period of 520 days. This period identified with the ancient proto-Mayan calendar coincides with the peak solar activity for the current 11-year cycle. However, the two predictive systems diverge on the duration of the maximum cycle, with the TimeStar predicting increased activity over 1-1/2 years and NASA predicting three months.


NASA PREDICTS DATE FOR HIGHEST SOLAR ACTIVITY

Two years after the first TimeStar Forecast predicted that an impending solar phase shift was the key to Earth changes, in 1998 NASA announced that the sun would demonsrate increased activity through 2001. Two weeks before NASA's September 29, 1998 announcement of a gamma ray burst that impacted the Earth a full month after the event on August 27, 1998, the effects of this gamma ray burst on the people and planet of Earth was announced in TimeStar predictions. The TimeStar Forecast was published a week after the burst in the first week of September, presaging NASA's announcement by three weeks.

Six months after the TimeStar pinpointed January 21 - October 30, 2000 as the period of highest solar activity, astronomers specified that the most violent cycle of solar activity would begin in January, 2000. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists hope to provide notice of large solar flares within 1 hour of events.

The forecasts have served the purpose of proving the ancient proto-Mayan calendar's accuracy using an alternative scientific paradigm to the European based astronomy presently in vogue. Most importantly, the TimeStar has specified periods of bizarre human action and reaction associated with solar cycles and gamma ray bursts. Indeed! The effects of these phenomena on human physiology are far more crucial than the health of satellites that will be obsolete in another decade. The most important aspect of this paradigm and the TimeStar's next phase is defining the human inventory to discover high-end potentials tapped by the masters of time.

Astronomers Say Sun May Add To Computer Bugs in Year 2000
Wall Street Journal (AP) June 1, 1999.

CHICAGO--Computer date confusion about the year 2000 isn't the only problem Earth's technology is going to face when the new year rolls in. Astronomers say they're also worried about an angry sun.

In January, just as computers around the world are coping with the Y2K bug, the sun will enter the most violent and disruptive phase of its 11-year cycle.

Massive bursts of energy from the sun could mean celebrating the new millennium in the dark, with dead cellular phones. Ships and planes relying on satellites for navigation might have to haul out old-fashioned maps. Even spacewalking astronauts could be at risk, according to reports Monday at the national meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

Researchers, using new techniques, are forecasting the sun's cycle to peak during the months of January to April. The sun is expected to be busy with solar flares and coronal mass ejections--solar explosions that can equal a million 100 megaton hydrogen bombs.

Waves of solar energy can trigger power blackouts, block some radio communications and create phantom commands capable of sending satellites spinning out of their proper orbits.

An Hour's Notice:

There were two pieces of good news: The solar cycle is not expected to be as severe as some in the past, and, for the first time, there may be some warning, thanks to a government satellite that will detect bursts of solar energy and send about an hour's notice, said JoAnn Joselyn of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

That warning, posted on the Internet and relayed through a special system, will give power companies time to align circuits to minimize or avoid damage from electrical surges, she said. Satellite operators can power down equipment or prepare to send corrective signals to their spacecraft.

Scientists have plotted 23 solar cycles, using historic and modern measurements. But the current cycle may be the most disruptive ever because much of the vulnerable communications technology now in use is new and has not been exposed to maximum solar activity, Ms. Joselyn said.

"The explosion in technology is intersecting with an extremely disturbed space environment," Ms. Joselyn said. "There is much higher risk now because we depend more on technology that is vulnerable."

Ms. Joselyn said energy bursts from the sun can cause an electrical charge to build up on the surface of satellites, triggering phantom signals.

In an earlier solar cycle, she said, small rocket thrusters on a satellite suddenly started firing, sending the spacecraft out of position. Control of another satellite was lost when its gyroscopes were disrupted.

Cell Phones Vulnerable:

Ms. Joselyn said cellular telephones may be vulnerable because they can use the ionosphere—the region of electrically charged gases in the upper atmosphere—to send radio signals, and bursts from the sun can disturb the ionosphere. Some cellular phone systems depend on satellites that are at risk too.

Solar energy eruptions can cause warm air to surge up from the Earth. That can drag some satellites to lower orbits, forcing satellite operators to use rocket fuel to reposition the spacecraft.

World-wide navigation, for ships and airplanes, relies heavily on the Global Positioning Satellite system, which uses a fleet of satellites that can be affected by the sun, Ms. Joselyn said.

"I am worried about the GPS more than anything else," she said. "We're starting to land airplanes with that system now." Electromagnetic energy from the sun can send huge waves of electrical energy surging along power lines, shorting circuits and burning out equipment. A 1989 solar storm caused a province-wide blackout in Quebec, and coils in a transformer station in Salem, N.J., melted and caught fire, causing a regional outage.

Astronauts generally are safe inside the space shuttle or the International Space Station, but future missions to the moon or Mars will have to guard to solar radiation bursts.

"On the moon, they could get enough radiation to be lethal," said Ms. Joselyn. "If we fly to Mars, we'll have to consider the hazardous radiation from the sun."