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Earth Will Only Have 12 Hours To Prepare For Massive Solar Storm
Yahoo News ^ | 7/29/15

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 ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: emp; preparedness; preppers; solarstorm
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To: Buckeye McFrog
" the Weather Channel freaks out over a four-inch snowfall"

I just can't watch them anymore. They name every snowflake as a, "winter storm" and then have endless hours of tow truck shows. I'm glad dish has weather nation tv.

61 posted on 07/29/2015 12:02:18 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Thorliveshere
"I’m up for some Vogon poetry over Hillary’s shrill voice."

Vogon Poetry was only the third worst. Now, fourth.

62 posted on 07/29/2015 12:10:00 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Kartographer
Earth Will Only Have 12 Hours To Prepare For Massive Solar Storm

We won't even have that much time if/when a democrat president decides to hit us with a high altitude EMP nuke.


63 posted on 07/29/2015 12:14:17 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: Iron Munro

Has someone alerted Bruce Willis yet?


64 posted on 07/29/2015 12:14:52 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: umgud
America's fault, we use more than our fair share of the Sun.

We must be stopped. Taxes isn't enough.

65 posted on 07/29/2015 12:19:10 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS,)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The way the Weather Channel freaks out over a four-inch snowfall, I can scarcely imagine.

Or worse the reporting this summer “That it’s the hottest driest summer in history!!”

Oh the Hugh-Manatee of it!


66 posted on 07/29/2015 12:49:42 PM PDT by rikkir (You can lead a horde to knowledge but you canÂ’t make them think. (TnkU Ctdonath))
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To: Kartographer
Sounds like a 1950’s Sci Fi movie.

Get out your anti-Sun Storm umbrella!

67 posted on 07/29/2015 12:57:38 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: Cold Heat
Which is more warning than we'd get from an asteroid impact

Or a nuke or a terrorist attack or another foot in mouth by (fill in the blank political leader) or a potty dash after a Taco Bell burrito or a Chicago drive by shooting or...

68 posted on 07/29/2015 4:57:28 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Kartographer

1859, hmmm. Way before my time!

However, I was radio-operator from 1947 to 1981 in the Merchant Marine and on weather stations in Greenland one time 400 miles from the North Pole!!

The majority of radio communications was on short waves. We were constantly advised of Sun-Spots interfering on our effectiveness or ineffectiveness on successful radio contacts, good or impossible some times depending on our positions and clock time. Bottom line NOTHING we would be special upset by as being part of our jobs!!!


69 posted on 07/29/2015 7:11:38 PM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: Kartographer

Still remember Y2K we were told ships could not sail or aircrafts fly, ROTLMSO!!!


70 posted on 07/29/2015 7:13:25 PM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: danamco

Your refusal to discuss the Carrington event clearly shows don’t wish to discuss the subject at hand. The fact that you was a radio operator has nothing to do with the subject of super solar flares like the Carrington event. XClearly you don’t even know what the Carrington event was.


71 posted on 07/29/2015 9:28:06 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: danamco
Y2K didn't happen because companies spent millions of dollars and programmers spent thousands of hours rewriting code, clearly another fact you have no knowledge of. Seems you make a habit of commenting on subjects you have no knowledge of.
72 posted on 07/29/2015 9:31:20 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: dfwgator

ROFL! thanks!


73 posted on 07/29/2015 10:06:23 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: Kartographer

From what I’ve read, there are 2 lines of thought on Solar Flares/EMP:

The damage done results from induced voltage caused by a strong magnetic field.

The grid with all the transmission lines presents a huge surface area and will result in a catastrophic induced voltage that will destroy the grid components and anything attached to them.

Vehicles have small electronic parts. The smaller area may not be enough to induce a damaging voltage. Keep in mind that some chips are so sensitive that even static electricity can damage them so I may be wrong on this assumption.

I’m reading a series of books by A. American that involve the US gov’t using a solar flare as cover to launch a false flag EMP strike and declare martial law. It’s worth a read.

In this event, the DHS and FEMA will use food as a weapon and it will work.

Just my two cents.


74 posted on 07/30/2015 5:09:56 AM PDT by appalachian_dweller (Live each day as if it's your last. It might be.)
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To: Kartographer

Never said I knew, but I knew a lot about solar spot and it’s interference on our short wave communication. Have a nice day, all KNOWING dude!!!


75 posted on 07/30/2015 12:59:14 PM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: Kartographer

Buzz of “Professor”~!!


76 posted on 07/30/2015 1:00:34 PM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: danamco

But we aren’t talking about sunspots or radio interference are we, the thread was about Super Sun Flares so how exactly does your post relate? Only a All knowing Dude would comment on something that he clearly knows nothing about wouldn’t you agree?


77 posted on 07/30/2015 1:02:58 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: danamco

I must be right over the target because of the flack I am getting.


78 posted on 07/30/2015 1:04:17 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer; Alamo-Girl; marron; xzins; metmom; YHAOS; hosepipe
We get to see a rather rare "supermoon" tonight, depending on one's geographical location and local visibility conditions. It is also a rare "blue moon" — a second full moon within a single calendar month.

A supermoon is the effect of the lunar orbit carrying the moon into unusually close proximity to the Earth.

What is fascinating is that another "supermoon" will occur next month, on September 28th. This second supermoon, because its proximity will be closer to the Earth than the one we observe tonight, will appear even larger and more brilliant.

People interested in divining the "signs of the times" might find this article, "Blue Moon ahead of rare Blood tetrad means world WILL end in September, warn Christians" of interest.

79 posted on 07/31/2015 11:38:50 AM PDT by betty boop (Science deserves all the love we can give it, but that love should not be blind.)
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To: betty boop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Sa2U89cdo


80 posted on 07/31/2015 12:07:34 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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