Well then you didnt look did you? Sometime during june/july the signal for the sunspot cycle change happened, marked by a sunspot with reversed polarity, which as a general rule pops up around 30 degress N/S and lasts as long as you would expect of any other spot. This particualar spot appeared at 13 degrees S and lasted for just 3 hours before disappearing, both of which is highly abnormal, indicating along with the track record of sunspot activity getting greater, that this phase will be "turbulent". And when is the peak due? December 2012. Also you seem to think weve passed through the galactic plate in recorded history, and seem completly incapable of using a search engine or even distinguishing the SCIENCE and FACT from the intelligently PROPESISED and PREDICTIED events by many ancient civilisations who didnt smoke crack and "meet god" who told them the world would end, instead the got a coupple of lenses together and invented a little thing called a telescope, and soon enough worked it out. Finally, Canada for one has had sections of its power grid knocked out by solar flares as they pass by, so dont try claiming a stream of charged particles and radiation is harmless. Those ones were nowhere near as big as what WILL happen in 2012, the question you need to be asking is will one hit us. http://science.monstersandcritics.com/news/article\_1135042.php/Strong\_2012\_sunspot\_cycle\_is\_forecast here this one has a some pretty pictures and a graph: http://lawnorder.blogspot.com/2005/04/daily-kos-coming-weather-crisis-in.html how about nasa then, cause theyve never lied or faked anything... http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10mar\_stormwarning.htm

Its supposed to be the movement through the galactic plane, co-inciding with jupiter & saturn lining up, this offsets the barycentre (centre of gravity) of the sun massivly (just the planets would do this) which increases sun-spot activity and therfore the likleyhood, size and number of mass coronal ejections (big solar flares), probably many times bigger than we have ever seen before. These are what cause the auras at the poles and the larger ones we have seen have taken out entire power grids. If one of these super big solar flares hits the earth you can be 100% sure there'll be alot of irradiated person lining the streets. If not it'll make for one fecking good light show and probably take out alot of the electronic infrastructure. I also remember reading that the mayan calendar long-count is supposed to have started when we last came through the plane, but that certainly wouldnt match up with 33 milion years. There are also several possible dates in december (12th,21st,23rd,24th, maybe more). If you really want more just 2012 google, you could read forever!