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Okay, and they still believe that “global warming” is man-made when the sun can put out coronal masses like this?
Mm-hm.
OK, so what does the professor suggest other than give him money to study the problem?
I don’t think I’ll wring my hands or worry too much about this.
Originally heard about this on Coast to Coast, it is deadly serious. If we had an event like what happened in the 1860’s it would seriously cripple us for many years.
The plain truth is that nobody knows how much or how little damage would be done. The scope of the effect is so broad and diffuse it is impossible to know which specific devices or components of the infrastructure would fail and which would not. This is the same problem as speculating about the effect of an EMP, even as the impact of a solar CME is distinctly different than that of an EMP. (primarily that a CME induces direct current in long wires and an EMP is a pulse with a very sharp rise time and induces a voltage spike that does the damage.)
Someone need study the handcrafting of tools used prior to the industrial revolution. We will need those tools someday.
But it didn’t.
it’s like trying to hit a fly on the far side of the moon with a spit ball
Analysts believe that a direct hit … could cause widespread power blackoutsI believe I'm going to pick the winning lottery number which could lead to a life of luxury.
But I'm not planning on it.
That wouldn't even began to cover the cost of the destruction that would take place after the event.
Lots of *load* (millions of devices) hanging on power lines, each one an eventual path to ground.
I would think that the spike induced in an unloaded power line compared to a loaded power line would be quite different in amplitude.
More alarmist hogwash.
The Sun has nothing to do with anything...
Close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades. A miss is as good as a mile.
We live in a society in which most people couldn't flush a toilet if you gave them a five gallon bucket of water with instructions on the bottom.
Sounds like the premise of my just released novel ‘EMP’ where a massive CME creates a worldwide EMP.
We dodged two more bullets recently. One only six months ago, and another one last summer.
“Sun storm: Blast 20 times taller than Earth erupts from sun”
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/02/19/massive-filament-erupts-from-sun/
“Massive solar flare narrowly misses Earth, EMP disaster barely avoided”
The sun’s been acting up for some time, now. So NASA’s 12% odds are probably on the low side.
“After Several Near Misses, Experts Warn The Next Carrington Event Will Plunge Us Back Into The Dark Ages”
