TECH BLACKOUT: Huge solar storm which could WIPE OUT modern technology expected by 2020

express.co.uk ^ | 11/29/16 | Sean Martin

[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)

[Steely Tom]

This is why my internet-facing computers are all vacuum-tube technology.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Not likely during the solar minimum. Check again 2020-2023.

[miliantnutcase]

Our power grid is so antiquated it might actually survive a massive solar storm just fine. I’d be more concerned with the trains not being able to get coal or gas to the power plant to fuel it.

[House Atreides]

We’re ALL gonna die! The world will descend into a new dark age — just as it did at the stroke of midnight on December 31, 1999. We ALL remember the horrors that were spawned by that event.

[samtheman]

The firing pin will still ignite the primer.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

GraceG :" This is precisely WHY we need to build a few underground (literal) cities."

The Russians already have cities built underground.
They already have capacity for 55,000 of their population for a combination solar storms and nuclear fallout.

[DocRock]

Frontier internet is down in West central FL all day. Looks like some other outages today including the LA area.

http://downdetector.com/status/frontier/map/

[Boogieman]

“Self sufficient underground cities... at least 10% population in them.”

Excellent idea, as long as I get a place in one, along with plenty of buxom, single, fertile young ladies :)

[IYAS9YAS]

What if such a storm wiped out all the computers upon which all global climate change models were running? Then what?

There's always Amway... They should fit right in.

[Fighting Irish]

[Puppage]

GlowBull Warming will kill us all before then.

[Fighting Irish]

< img src = “https://soowhatnow.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/hair-on-fire.jpg";>

[Fighting Irish]

< img src = “https://soowhatnow.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/hair-on-fire.jpg";>

[norwaypinesavage]

The dreaded Carrington event was newsworthy because it damaged and destroyed some telegraph stations. The doomsayers say: "Just think of the damage it would wreak with all the modern electronics we now have in each house.

Actually, telegraph lines were very low current devices. With miles and miles of wires, and no electronics to amplify the signals, slight electromagnetic disturbances could burn out the very sensitive telegraph receivers on each end. Modern equipment can have significant protection from similar events.

Ho, hum.

[BuffaloJack]

Do you own a printed and bound road Atlas?
GPS probably won’t work.

[Doogle]

"....yeah,but my solar powered litter box with heat lamp,autoturd remover,tummy rub,and 3 year meow mix despenser is good right? ..right?"

[Vince Ferrer]

What if such a storm wiped out all the computers upon which all global climate change models were running? Then what?

I would die laughing.

[PLMerite]

I got dibs on Mary Ann.

[ctdonath2]

As my father reacted to the Y2K threat: “I’ll just throw another log on the fire and go back to my book.”

[Bulwinkle]

Yes, not likely soon. If I recall correctly big storms happen after solar peaks