[xkaydet65]

Hey that’s my birthday! Wayyy Koool!!!

[BradyLS]

I have it on good (Congressional) authority that we have seven years and some change left. 🙄

[Tucker39]

I won’t type the words here, but as a hint; This story is very like that dark brown, very smelly fecal matter that spews from the south end of a northbound bull when he’s all riled up about something.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Meanwhile, there is a ship of Lithium-ion batteries burning off the coast of Alaska. Any of the batteries that ‘survive’ will be just fine. /s

And all those batteries are to ‘save the planet.’

PS....what fuel did the ship full of batteries use to travel across the ocean?? Wind?? Solar?? Pixie Dust??

[ansel12]

2014
Army to build blast- and EMP-proof launch-control building for Alaska-based missile defense
U.S. Army missile-defense officials are constructing a special building hardened against blast and electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) at Fort Greely, Alaska, for command and control of anti-ballistic missiles to protect help protect the United States from enemy nuclear missile attack.

https://www.militaryaerospace.com/rf-analog/article/16719312/army-to-build-blast-and-empproof-launchcontrol-building-for-alaskabased-missile-defense

[earglasses]

This guy, Doug Vogt, cites evidence that the Sun goes mini-nova every so often, and wipes out all humans not living deep inside of caves: https://www.youtube.com/@dieholdfoundation6705

Says the next one is due in about 36 years.

Cheerful character.../s

[DannyTN]

From the Prophecy 3 after Gabriel is made mortal:

Zophael Jones : Killing you would be so easy.
Gabriel : Yeah? Fried food can kill me, a mugger can kill me. You’re not so special down here, Jones!

[citizen]

Serious to perhaps catastrophic solar flares are increasingly likely as the earth’s magnetic field continues to weaken, as it’s been doing for the last several decades.

This situation is exacerbated by the migrating magnetic poles...

That said, the chances of a huge flare being aimed directly at us are rather remote.

[jonrick46]

The discharge of massive energy nuclear devices loaded with EMP producing nuclear material will do as much damage. The real threat is such devices may already be in orbit, waiting the signal to drop to earth and be set off at the exact position.

[VMI70]

BKMK

[Justa]

Groan, not this C again!?

“Charged particles” from the sun, aka a CME are no more dangerous than a cathode ray tube display. There have been many CMEs since the “Carrington event” and they don’t collapse the electric grid. Electrical grids have built in solid state surge protectors for decades. You’d have to scour the world to find electrical grids that are crappy enough to fry out during a CME.

Charged particles DO-NOT-EQUAL a Fricking Gamma Ray Burst!

However, since both are on the electromagnetic spectrum and both are “radiation” from a sun I guess it’s cause for blog pimping sensationalism for the “we’re all gonna die” crowd.

The gamma ray burst just requires a supernova -which our sun won’t be producing for a few billion years.

What’s next, sunlight? It’s also on the electromagnetic spectrum and is emitted by the sun.

[Pollard]

I did not know Bret Weinstein, an evolutionary biologist, wrote dystopian fiction.

I have mixed feelings about what an EMP or CME would do but if it fried solid telegraph wire, surely it would fry unshielded Cat5 cable and guess what the modern world runs on?

We've all been to a store when the "system" was down. If you're lucky and have cash, you might be able to buy something, but not fuel. Imagine the system being down for months. Half the population relies on cashless EBT to eat well.

Doesn't have to be an EMP/CME. The dems will cause a collapse eventually as that is their goal.

Good luck with this.

I'm quite sure the cattlemen around here will supply people with beef to prevent neighbors from turning violent on each other or on them. They won't be able to manage their herd with no fuel anyway. Can't put up hay for Winter with no tractor. Everyone knows how to process a four legged critter. Everyone will be relying on deer prior to that. My meat goats are probably 300 lbs of meat.

This area is loaded with springs that pump out a gazillion gallons of potable water. I have one of the bigger ones 1/4 mile away. Certified by the state for a bottled spring water business that they never followed through with.

Some people around here had no electricity as recent as 100 years ago. This was Little House on the Prairie land 200 years ago.

Field corn and wheat will become big staple items and grain mills will have to be built but it's been done before. This is down the road and could be put back to use.

The Amish wagons will replace delivery trucks and more wagons would be built. Cows might not be as fast as a horse but can pull. All the horse/oxen pulled implements decorating people's yards or sitting in fields will be put back to use. There's a reason country people hang on to that stuff.

Most non-white collar working men around here work at the factories, of which there are surprisingly many, mostly making plastic products. I work maintenance at one of these places. They are all able bodied and most have general hands on skills that will be put to good use and they can definitely handle the heat. Gets kinda warm in summer in a factory that's constantly melting plastic resin to turn it into products.

Ain't nothin' but a thing.

Instant hard life but survivable well away from the cities.

That big spring is down a big hill from me. When we lived off grid, we did our share of hauling water up a hill. Kids each carried a gallon and the wife and I two gallons each. Laundry day was a few trips. We were younger then and I wouldn't be able to do it now but I'll figure something out.

[Jay W]

Look, these people who always put “could” into their messages, headlines or warnings simply never go far enough. They never talk about how the entire Universe “could” explode at any time and wipe out every single star, planet and asteroid out there and all life here.

OK, /sarcasm off.

In other news, the Obamas, owners of two beachfront properties, aren’t in the least bit worried that the oceans “could” rise several feet.

[minnesota_bound]

How the sun could wipe us out?
Nonsense. Sending more taxes to the gov’t to combat global climate change will protect us against the sun.

[BraveMan]

Who has the recipe for Soylent Green?