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I usually like it extra-crispy, but this, my friends, is the exception to the rule. No, I’m not talking about bacon either, I’m talking about HUMANITY! And according to solar scientists the sun is about to get all stormy on our asses in the next years. I guess the Mayan prophecies were right after all. The end is nigh my friends!

Hit the break for a detailed explanation of how we gonna get  toasted.

Solar storms occur when sunspots on our star erupt and spew out flumes of charged particles that can damage power systems. The sun’s activity typically follows an 11-year cycle, and it looks to be coming out of a slump and gearing up for an active period.

“The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity,” said Richard Fisher, head of NASA’s Heliophysics Division. “At the same time, our technological society has developed an unprecedented sensitivity to solar storms. The intersection of these two issues is what we’re getting together to discuss.”

Bad news for gizmos

People of the 21st century rely on high-tech systems for the basics of daily life. But smart power grids, GPS navigation, air travel, financial services and emergency radio communications can all be knocked out by intense solar activity.

A major solar storm could cause twenty times more economic damage than Hurricane Katrina, warned the National Academy of Sciences in a 2008 report, “Severe Space Weather Events—Societal and Economic Impacts.”

Luckily, much of the damage can be mitigated if managers know a storm is coming. That’s why better understanding of solar weather, and the ability to give advance warning, is especially important.

Ohh, so you guys mean it will not toast us literally but just mess up our electronics? PFFFT! We can totally live without TV, GPS or internet! right? RIGHT!? OH GOD! OK, NOBODY PANIC, THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT NOBODY PANIC!!! You go for the golden idols, I will start to build the altar, maybe if we pray to the almighty God of the Sun we can stop this from ever happening!

Read more about this at news.yahoo.com: More Active Sun Means Nasty Solar Storms Ahead
While you read I will be wrapping the entire bunker in aluminum foil to help protect my electronics, when I’m done I will go scream “THE END IS NEAR!!” outside waving my arms in the air.