It may be the most vivid sign of end time

[jaywalker]

This NASA update below tells us about a time in the near future when the whole civilization will take the form of an ancient civilization as no electronic device will work around the full world.

Subsequently, the army of black banner may come out of Khurasan. No power will be able to stop them and they will finally reach Jerusalem where they will erect their flags. As mentioned in the hadith:

"Related by Abu Hurayrah: The Prophet Sallallahu ‘Alaihi Wa Sallam said: "(Armies carrying) black flags will come from Khurasan (Afghanistan). No power will be able to stop them and they will finally reach Jerusalem where they will erect their flags." (Tirmidhi)"

In other narrations we find that in the time of dajjal muslims will use horse, rather than tank: it will happen as because no electronic device will work round the world.

"................................................. .................A cry will reach them: "The Dajjal has taken your place among your offspring." So they will throw away whatever is in their hands and go forward, sending 10 horsemen as a scouting party. The Prophet said, 'I know their names, and the names of their fathers, and the colors of their horses. They will be the best horsemen on the face of the earth on that day." (Ahmad, Muslim).

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?i...tionid=3510208
NASA: Solar storm to hit earth in 2013
Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:52:47 GMT
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NASA scientists predict a solar storm will hit the earth in 2013 mostly affecting electronic devices leading to a major catastrophe.

The once-in-a-generation storm, caused by extremely high levels magnetic energy released by solar flares, "will disrupt communication devices such as satellites and car navigations, air travel, the banking system, our computers, everything that is electronic," says Richard Fisher, head of NASA's Heliophysics Division, quoted in a June 14 Daily Telegraph article.

"Large areas will be without electricity power," says Fisher who emphasizes that the emergence of the storm is certain, though its degree of severity cannot be accurately foretold.

The National Academy of Sciences warned two years ago that a strong solar storm could cause "twenty times more economic damage than Hurricane Katrina," which devastated US Gulf of Mexico coastal city of New Orleans in 2005, killing thousands and living an estimated damage of over $125 billion.

According to Fisher, the storm, which will cause the sun to reach temperatures of more than 10,000 F (5,500 C), occurs "only a few times over a person's life."

Every 22 years, according to the report, the Sun's magnetic energy cycle reaches its highest level as the number sun spots - or flares - peaks every 11 years. These two events, says Fisher, "would combine in 2013 to produce huge levels of radiation."

In recent months, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has offered unique photos of sun spots, which release a vast amount of energy as they light up.

[Ahmed]

ive researched these for years

the problem with most people including muslims is they want to hold on to the norm/status quo

something like this is regarded as nonsense by most people..

im not one of them hence youre labelled a loon

so many signs but still no change in attitude

[jaywalker]

AS THE SUN AWAKENS, NASA KEEPS A WARY EYE ON SPACE WEATHER
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...10/04jun_swef/
June 4, 2010: Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that's new to human history. To make preparations, authorities in Washington DC are holding a meeting: The Space Weather Enterprise Forum at the National Press Club on June 8th.

Richard Fisher, head of NASA's Heliophysics Division, explains what it's all about:

"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. 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."

The National Academy of Sciences framed the problem two years ago in a landmark report entitled "Severe Space Weather Events—Societal and Economic Impacts." It noted how people of the 21st-century rely on high-tech systems for the basics of daily life. Smart power grids, GPS navigation, air travel, financial services and emergency radio communications can all be knocked out by intense solar activity. A century-class solar storm, the Academy warned, could cause twenty times more economic damage than Hurricane Katrina.

Much of the damage can be mitigated if managers know a storm is coming. Putting satellites in 'safe mode' and disconnecting transformers can protect these assets from damaging electrical surges. Preventative action, however, requires accurate forecasting—a job that has been assigned to NOAA.

"Space weather forecasting is still in its infancy, but we're making rapid progress," says Thomas Bogdan, director of NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado.

Bogdan sees the collaboration between NASA and NOAA as key. "NASA's fleet of heliophysics research spacecraft provides us with up-to-the-minute information about what's happening on the sun. They are an important complement to our own GOES and POES satellites, which focus more on the near-Earth environment."

Among dozens of NASA spacecraft, he notes three of special significance: STEREO, SDO and ACE.

STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) is a pair of spacecraft stationed on opposite sides of the sun with a combined view of 90% of the stellar surface. In the past, active sunspots could hide out on the sun's farside, invisible from Earth, and then suddenly emerge over the limb spitting flares and CMEs. STEREO makes such surprise attacks impossible.

SDO (the Solar Dynamics Observatory) is the newest addition to NASA's fleet. Just launched in February, it is able to photograph solar active regions with unprecedented spectral, temporal and spatial resolution. Researchers can now study eruptions in exquisite detail, raising hopes that they will learn how flares work and how to predict them. SDO also monitors the sun's extreme UV output, which controls the response of Earth's atmosphere to solar variability.

On April 19, 2010, SDO observed one of the most massive eruptions in years. Earth was not in the line of fire ... this time.

Bogdan's favorite NASA satellite, however, is an old one: the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) launched in 1997. "Where would we be without it?" he wonders. ACE is a solar wind monitor. It sits upstream between the sun and Earth, detecting solar wind gusts, billion-ton CMEs, and radiation storms as much as 30 minutes before they hit our planet.

"ACE is our best early warning system," says Bogdan. "It allows us to notify utility and satellite operators when a storm is about to hit.”

NASA spacecraft were not originally intended for operational forecasting—"but it turns out that our data have practical economic and civil uses," notes Fisher. "This is a good example of space science supporting modern society."

2010 marks the 4th year in a row that policymakers, researchers, legislators and reporters have gathered in Washington DC to share ideas about space weather. This year, forum organizers plan to sharpen the focus on critical infrastructure protection. The ultimate goal is to improve the nation’s ability to prepare, mitigate, and respond to potentially devastating space weather events.

"I believe we're on the threshold of a new era in which space weather can be as influential in our daily lives as ordinary terrestrial weather." Fisher concludes. "We take this very seriously indeed."

For more information about the meeting, please visit the Space Weather Enterprise Forum home page at http://www.nswp.gov/swef/swef_2010.html.

Author: Dr. Tony Phillips | Credit: Science@NASA

[The_Humble_One]

So you two believe that we will go back to the Middle Ages and the prophecies of war with horses, lances and shields will literally come true?

[Dawud Israel]

Press TV has a bad reputation of fabricating stories. Poor journalism from what I hear.

But of course, all things must come to an end.

[jaywalker]

Press TV has a bad reputation of fabricating stories. Poor journalism from what I hear.

But of course, all things must come to an end.

May you follow the updates directly from other authentic links rather than following press tv links:

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...10/04jun_swef/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/s...vastation.html

[jaywalker]

So you two believe that we will go back to the Middle Ages and the prophecies of war with horses, lances and shields will literally come true?

Assalamu Alaikum,

If I believe just based on my imagination, then it is completely weightless. But, matter is, there are many sahih hadiths which remind us that this civilization will take the form of ancient civilization, at least partially. As a muslim, I can not deny those hadiths.

I urge the muslims to find those sahih hadiths from hadith databases. I have posted one relevent hadith in the first post of this thread.

In any future matter, we should rely completely on the sahih traditions rather than developing any idea based on our own imagination. Thats for safety's sake and thats all.

[ssjkakarot]

So you two believe that we will go back to the Middle Ages and the prophecies of war with horses, lances and shields will literally come true?

Wa alaykum salam

Such a thing is entirely possible. There are numerous things that can happen to send mankind back some centuries. Massive EMP strikes from nuclear bombs going off up in the atmosphere, sunspots causing EMP blasts, nuclear war, supervolcanoes going off, economic collapse due to peak oil are just some examples.

[jaywalker]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/s...st-writes.html

Nasa solar flare space storm warning: a British scientist writes

By Dr Chris Davis, Space scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Published: 9:00AM BST 18 Jun 2010

[jaywalker]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_TzIUlaQo

The file uploaded on youtube in March 26, 2009. And in 2010, NASA revised the tentative timing of solar storm to a great extent. It seems that their technology is still in its infancy regarding the prediction of solar storm. Details in the above posts.