Yep, it's falling. It's really falling!
Posted on 03/24/2016 9:53:34 AM PDT by GraceG
An international research team has published a study discussing the possibility and consequences of a 'superflare' erupting from our parent star
If a superflare erupted from the Sun , experts have predicted it will have a "devastating" effect on the Earth.
It could break down radio communication, damage power supplies across the planet and threaten the stability of our atmosphere.
And, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications , the possibility is not as far-fetched as scientists first thought.
"We certainly did not expect to find superflare stars with magnetic fields as weak as the magnetic fields on the Sun," said Christoffer Karoff from Aarhus University in Denmark.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
“You mean millennials will actually have to carry on a conversation using their mouths?”
Every hear a millennial use their mouth??
“Moth*** F8** sh*** I be telling yuz what the f*** sh*** I be doin mo*** f****”
I’d rather they just shut up and learn sign language.
Sounds like the forth bowl of Gods wrath in Revelation 16
We’re worried about an Iranian EMP attack (when we should zap Teheran first), but just one little hiccup from Helios and it’ll be Flintstones for all of us.
"Devastating consequences"? Not so much. IMO, nothing new anyway, they have been happening forever. As a former naval radio operator, we used to call them “SIDS” (Severe Iononic Disturbances” They do disrupt radio communications and last but a few days, ultimately communication signals return back to "normal". Another Chicken Little claim that, "The sky is falling, the sky is falling".
I remember a book I read back in the 80’s. The premise was that an insane Muslim scientist raised a buttload of money to fund a space-borne super-laser that was supposed to wipe out Israeli cities. He builds and launches the thing and demonstrates it to the world by zorching an abandoned desert town in Sudan (or somewhere close) and demanding a ransom. Turns out, he has bigger plans. He actualy intends to fire it into the Sun, which will cause the Sun to belch out a stream of microwaves that will fry the Western Hemisphere.
The hero of the story finds out about this and, with his female colleague, break into the control center for the laser and attempt to disarm it. Unfortunately, it fires off....but it does so several hours early, which instead fries Europe, Northern Africa, most of Asia, and the mad Muslim scientist (who was buggering a young boy at the time). America survives. The second part of the book involved the survivors dealing with the weather (which was altered by the heating of the atmosphere on the other side of the world) and attempts on the American President’s life.
I’ll be darned if I can remember the title.
Prepper ping
How was it supposed to end (in the book)?
Yep, it's falling. It's really falling!
It is by Heinlein, I believe.
Just found it. It is “Inconstant Moon” by Larry Niven.
Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven
You are correct! Now I remember. It was well done.
30 seconds late.
You mean millennials won’t be able to use their phones, go on twitter and Facebook or whatever the rage is now? Oh the humanity!
The withdrawal would be an awful sight to behold. Seriously, many people would be going crazy.
Yup. just imagine no grocery stores getting restocked, continuous looting, no EBT cards working, small bands of hungry youths raiding the burbs for food, whole sections of major cities just dead in starvation and disease, no water flowing from city taps and sewage backing up in homes, with effluent just dumped into the streets.
If only that were the case.
If an object such as a comet or large enough asteroid came close enough to the planet (not hitting it, but “brushing it”) we could lose enough atmosphere, and it could mess with the magnetic fields enough to fail to deflect a CME. It would be an extinction level thing.
I am not worried about a Chinese or Iranian EMP at all.
After reading books and publications about man made EMPs the range of danger goes from having us all die in a month, to being able to restart my car in a couple of minutes.
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