Between Pat Robertson saying he supports the legalization of marijuana and Snooki's confirmed pregnancy, the tinfoil hat crowd may be right: maybe the world will end in 2012.

Latest case in point: solar flare. This was the week that a solar storm struck Earth, an event that some predicted would crash power grids, airplane routes and space-based satellite navigation systems. So far, nothing much has happened — but that doesn't mean it won't.

Scientists at NOAA are saying that the storm is the strongest event in nearly 6 years, although it just felt like Thursday from where I'm sitting.

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