Posted on 07/29/2015 8:14:28 AM PDT by Kartographer
Trains will be disrupted, power will go out, satellite signals will go wonky - that’s what we have to look forward to when the sun next has a melt down, and we’re unlikely to get more than 12 hours warning.
In a new government document, the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills has laid out its Space Weather Preparedness Strategy, outlining the risks of unsettled space weather as well as what it plans to do about them.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
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Thanks for the warning I need to update my BOG to take into account if I have to hitch hiking around the galaxy.
in essence; it is an EMP
Got Towel?
Reminds me of the short story which they made into an episode on Rod Serling’s, “Night Gallery” tv show.
“The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes”
by Margaret St. Clair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Predicted_Earthquakes
Night Gallery episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_zHyxL4pdk
starring Clint Howard (brother of Ron Howard) and who also starred in the tv show, “Gentle Ben.”
The March 1989 solar storm shorted out the Quebec power grid for 9 hrs. 9 days would be testing the veneer of civility.
We have a “Department of Business, Innovation and Skills”?? As part of the GOVERNMENT?
Wait, wait, where’s my towel!?
Women and minorities hardest hit again?
Cosmic ZOT approacheth. Prayers up!
Good point.
A much more serious issue than Global Warming and likely to happen within next 200 years.
Say...you really ARE a hoopy frood.
Don’t forget your babelfish.
I’m up for some Vogon poetry over Hillary’s shrill voice.
Ok....
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts
With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don’t!
Wow! Does this mean that the Sun does have profound influence on this planet?
Has anybody told Algore? I’m sure he’ll want to get right on that.
All of the texting addicts will commit mass suicide.
You forgot the Muzzies, the members of the darling religion of the U.S. government.
Scientists admit we may be headed into a Little Ice Age, but keep on blathering about “global warming”
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