Just kidding. Being prepared is like chicken soup - "It couldn't hoit".
Posted on 07/12/2012 9:25:40 PM PDT by Kartographer
"It's one of the biggest natural disaster threats to the developed world," said John Kappenman, an electrical engineer who specializes in solar storms and the impact they would have on the Earth.
"We've been doing nothing in regards to understanding the true severity of these storms, in fact, we are just building bigger and bigger antennae that makes us more closely coupled with severe space weather events."
Space weather emanating from the Sun affects humans all of the time, we just don't notice it unless it disrupts our smartphones or puts on a pretty northern lights show.
Experts warn though that at some point in the future an eruption of radiation and energy from the sun will be so massive, when hits the Earth it could send modern civilization into a long and deadly electrical blackout by frying all of the interconnected power grids.
"If you lose electricity you lose the ability to pump and create clean water, treat and pump sewage, to maintain any perishable foods, all perishable medications, and you lose the ability to manufacture new things, like replacement parts for the things that were damaged," Kappenman warns. "The phone and Internet systems are only backed up by a few days worth of standby generation with very limited fuel.
"The ability to pump fuel is lost, the ability to produce new fuel is lost. Transportation systems would be severely compromised, if not totally lost. It's something we really don't want to experience on a wide scale."
(Excerpt) Read more at torontosun.com ...
Here’s the free *.pdf download:
http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/21916902/1931499887/name/William+R+Forstchen+-+One+Second+After.pdf
Hey, everyone knows that we humans are causing these solar flares! (just in case, here’s the sarc tag /s/)
“Solar Flare”???
Have hot dogs and burgers ready...won’t even need to fire up the grill!!! Just hold them up for some free solar cookin’...
bfl
Solar flares have been wreaking havoc on earth for awhile now.
I liked One Second After. Another interesting one I just finished is “The Pulse” by Scott Williams.
Yeah...much ado ‘bout nothin’...
“Solar flare could wreak havoc on Earth” - Chicken Little.
“Jessica Simpson’s Body Crisis!” - I also can’t name one thing she sang.
“The Color of Your Character” - Peg Bundy...eminently bangable. Christina Applegate: still pretty, but I got turned off when she was caught smoking after her double mastectomy. WTF? Really?
“It’s good to keep focused on the important things in life...it balances us.”
-Words of wisdom NFH!
“Jessica Simpson’s Body Crisis!”
I’m sorry to hear that.
Just kidding. Being prepared is like chicken soup - "It couldn't hoit".
True. At one time, I thought maybe that technology has come far enough to compensate, but then considering that auroras were seen in Hawaii & (I can’t remember if it was Cuba or) Puerto Rico- obviously the Carrington event was even stronger than Nov 2003.
Life is perilous & freak things happen.
God Is Good.
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