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TECH BLACKOUT: Huge solar storm which could WIPE OUT modern technology expected by 2020
express.co.uk ^ | 11/29/16 | Sean Martin

Posted on 11/29/2016 1:16:44 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt

THERE is a one in eight chance that the Earth will be hit by a huge solar storm by 2020 which could potentially leave the world without Internet, phone service and many more services that modern-day humans rely on.

Researchers have warned that there is roughly a 12 per cent chance that a solar storm could smash into Earth by the end of the decade.(emphasis mine)

The powerful event would likely be as huge as the Carrington Event, which occurred on 1859.

The solar storm which hit 150 years ago was so powerful that its southern auroras could be seen as far north as Queensland in Australia.

Today, in a modern world so dependent on technology, the implications would be far more severe. ( more information available at website- restricted due to copyright restriction)

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: auroras; carringtonevent; internet; prepper; preppers; solar; technology
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

My wife and I spent our first anniversary in the mountains and in a $36 tent. We loved it and woke up to nearly 2’ of fresh snow - it was cold...we still loved it. About 45 years later, we would be sleeping in our airstream trailer and...we would still love it.

We would certainly miss our fun tech stuff, I LOVE MY SMART PHONE , but we would survive without it all.

Hope and pray for the best, prepare for the worst. That is something my parents and grandparents taught me, a lesson that has never failed me.

We are much more organized than my grandparents were, they used to hide canned food using every square inch of space under their beds and in their closets. LOL


141 posted on 11/29/2016 7:12:50 PM PST by Gator113 (~DRAIN THE SWAMP~ ~ LOCK HER UP ~ ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~ ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~ ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

Let us pray that this does not come to pass.

PING!


142 posted on 11/30/2016 2:35:08 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hey, New Delhi! What the hell were you thinking???)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...
Almost forgot . . .

Cyberattack, but similar to what could happen with a solar storm.

American Blackout

143 posted on 11/30/2016 2:36:56 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hey, New Delhi! What the hell were you thinking???)
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To: Justa

Insulation on wiring isn’t going to do much considering static electricity from the human body will fry a computer chip and everything runs off a chip these days. Soon. Self driving big rigs. Automated factories. Human labor might be appreciated again one day.

Yeah, an emp is more likely. The military did some testing with that back in the 60s I think and cars didn’t make it through. Fried the ignition coils & alternators/generators. It would have to be a real strong solar flare to come close to emp and would have to hit a densely populated are to do a lot of damage.

Meanwhile, express.co.uk is recycling news from 02/2012
https://www.wired.com/2012/02/massive-solar-flare/

As for prepping; The stupidity/evil of man is the #1 thing to prep for (jihad and other stupid human tricks) with somewhat normal natural disasters/weather being 2nd. Fire, Wind, Water. Around here, we can get ice storms that coat everything with 2-3” of ice. Snaps powerlines, large tree branches, coats the ground so that walking is near impossible, never mind driving. The last one was just a few years ago and people were stuck at home with no electric for two weeks in the dead of winter and that was in the city. Rural folks went up to a month with out power but the rural people’s situation didn’t make the news. Most heating systems need electric to run even if they’re LP/NG.


144 posted on 11/30/2016 5:02:42 AM PST by Pollard (TRUMP 2016)
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To: metmom

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As usual, you reject the scriptures completely.

We are in the prophesied millennium of rest, and at the end of the Sabbath of years that begins with Tishri 1, next year, Yeshua’s bride will be taken out, to commence the ten days of Yehova’s wrath in the bowl judgements.

Interesting times will devastate the uninformed, but Yeshua’s bride will “be not troubled,” for the end is not yet.
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145 posted on 11/30/2016 8:33:22 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

please remove me from the ping list


146 posted on 12/03/2016 6:14:22 PM PST by verga (In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Didn’t happen.


147 posted on 01/29/2022 7:55:53 AM PST by Sawdring
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To: Sawdring
Sawdring : " Didn’t happen. "

True that ,..thank goodness
But neither did Yellowstone blow up, but the caldera still exists.
Neither did parts of California slip into the ocean, but 'plate subduction' still exists. Etc., etc...
The call was for statistical analysis that a 'mass coronal effect' probability still exists, and statistically we may be overdue.
I, for one, appreciate your search into the archives . Thank you !

148 posted on 01/29/2022 9:21:08 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

LOL, I was just looking at one of Sunkenciv’s collections and I noticed the headline and couldn’t resist!


149 posted on 01/29/2022 9:31:05 AM PST by Sawdring
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

150 posted on 01/29/2022 9:32:51 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I hope so. Then I can just make a geothermal steam powered computer from bamboo and a new cell phone from coconuts.


151 posted on 01/29/2022 10:07:36 AM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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