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The idea of the whole world vibrating and only hives in "one single" Country being affected well lets just say unlikely.
Originally posted by St Udio
I have a big question on his exotic theory,
'we' on Earth will enter the imaginary 'Galactic Plane' in another 5 years (2012)
now, i can concede that this imaginary 'equator' plane is wide enough
so it may take Earth & the SolarSystem years to 'pass through' it...
But!...does Hoaglands' formulas take into account that the Earth & our SolarSystem will not be Actually or Realistically passing through
this 'Galactic Equatorial Plane' in 2012...
Originally posted by fiftyfifty
"The ultimate drivers are changes in our landscapes; intensive agriculture, extensive use of pesticides, drainage, nitrogen deposition.
"All of these factors favour subsets of plants and subsets of bees.
"And if you want to prevent them you have to look at the ecosystem level, protecting the habitat and the groups of species."
Source
Maybe it could be the impact we have on them??? It doesn't always have to be some crazy out there theory.
Originally posted by St Udio
now, i can concede that this imaginary 'equator' plane is wide enough
so it may take Earth & the SolarSystem years to 'pass through' it...
Originally posted by Byrd
The "galactic equator" is huge. We never actually leave it.
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The solar system doesn't leave the galactic plane. It's part of one of the arms of this huge spiral galaxy and never floats above it or below it.
Originally posted by stumason
Actually, Byrd, the Sun (and every other star in an Arm) isn't a permanent member of said Arm. All the stars move in and out of different Arms throughout their Galactic Orbit. The Galaxy isn't a rigid structure, but is rather fluid.
The Sun takes 100 million years to change arms completely, taking 10 million years to pass through the denser part of an Arm. The Arms are just representations of gravitational density waves in the galaxy.
It has been postulated that our motion into and out of the different arms and also the oscillating motion of the solar system through the galactic plane is cause for mass extinction events. This has to do with the amount of cosmic radiation able to reach Earth during these different phases in the Solar Galactic year.