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 ...
Yea!
Loved living in the wilderness.
Just make sure you have some way to protect your stores and your family when the hungry roving bands come calling.
Snares, punji stakes, varioius pitfalls w/poisoned stakes - good bow & arrows w/special tips - the usual
Oh, I know it’s not a balloon. However, if something with some decent mass came through, it could literally drag some atmosphere, affect our magnetic poles and change our rotation and orbit.
I know the risks are minuscule. But the magnetic pole flipping in the past has always made me curious.
I am not going to worry about.
Very well, carry on then.
LOL, now I wanna see it too!
Common sense tells me the sun can hiccup and do us in.
I hadn’t seen your post when I posted a similar but more incomplete post from a different source. Glad to have been directed here. Scary things indeed. Good post.
Frank Gaffney, @SecureFreedom , @frankgaffney , about threats to the electric grid.
https://soundcloud.com/jacki-daily/jacki-talks-with-frank-gaffney
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