[Shasown]

Why the panic about the end of the Mayan Long Count( the big wheel calendar)? It isnt the first time it has ended, stella and codex found at various sites show they held the belief there were previous counts before and also intended to have counts after it.

This is a bit like primary school children seeing the calendar on the notice board at school only goes up to the end of december, and declaring the world will end on the 31st because there is nothing after it.

As for the solar flares, in the 19th century during a similar period of increased solar activity telegraph wires were burnt out in several countries. However since then telephone wires, energy power lines etc are now protected against surges in the energy they carry and external power surges like EMP(electromagnetic pulses)

There is the potential for certain types of radio communication to be disrupted, like HF radio because of the disruption that may be caused to the Ionosphere by solar flare activity, however this will eventually settle and right itself.