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Meltdown! A solar superstorm could send us back into the dark ages - one is due in just THREE years
dailymail.co.uk ^ | April 19, 2009 | Michael Hanlon

Posted on 04/20/2009 11:23:02 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

The catastrophe, when it comes, will be beautiful at first. It is a balmy evening in late September 2012. Ever since the sun set, the dimming skies over London have been alive with fire.

Pillars of incandescent green writhe like gigantic serpents across the skies.

Sheets of orange race across the horizon during the most spectacular display of the aurora borealis seen in southern England for 153 years.

And then, 90 seconds later, the lights start to go out. Not the lights in the sky - they will dazzle until dawn - but the lights on the ground.

Within an hour, large parts of Britain are without power.

By midnight, every mobile network is down and the internet is dying. Television - terrestrial and satellite - blinks off the air.

Radio is reduced to a burst of static.

By noon the following day, it is clear something terrible has happened and the civilised world has plunged into chaos.

A year later, Britain, most of Europe plus North America is in the grip of the deepest economic catastrophe in history.

By the end of 2013, 100,000 Europeans have died of starvation.

The dead go unburied, the sick untreated.

It will take two decades or more for the first green shoots of recovery to appear - recovery from the first solar superstorm in modern history.

This catastrophe is not some academic one-in-a-million chance scenario.

It is a very real threat which, according to a report in the latest issue of New Scientist, remains one of the most potent, yet least recognised, threats to the future of human civilisation.


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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: apollo; catastrophism; godsgravesglyphs; greatballsoffire; highnoon; iteotwawki; ohcrap; redalert; sundown; theskyisfalling; tinfoil
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To: EGPWS
On a lighter note this would guarantee one term for Obama.
21 posted on 04/20/2009 11:34:46 AM PDT by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Send up 0bama up there. Now. Today.


22 posted on 04/20/2009 11:34:53 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Mr. Bernanke, have you started working on your book about the second GREATER depression?")
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To: OB1kNOb
Coming soon to a SciFi channel near you?

If your television still works.

I have a shield that protects your abode that I designed and all you have to do is plug it into an outlet and it is guaranteed to protect all your electronics. I'm willing to GIVE it away (plus shipping and handling) to anyone concerned.

All out of the goodness of my heart. : - D

If you contact me before midnight, I'll toss in a Dr. Ken's "Tungsten Cowhide Turbo Encabulator" for a greener lawn and better running engine in your vehicle all for FREE!

You only pay shipping and handling costs...

23 posted on 04/20/2009 11:41:28 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Bush's Fault!
24 posted on 04/20/2009 11:41:43 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Dead going unburied, hundreds of thousands dead...

Two words.

First word: Horse

Second word: S-—

That’s not even counting the idiocy of saying this will happen in two years.


25 posted on 04/20/2009 11:46:13 AM PDT by MediaMole
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To: Dallas59
Bush's Fault!

Of course it is!

Hell, San Andreas is going to be Bush's fault before it's all over said and done.

26 posted on 04/20/2009 11:46:47 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
AAIIIEEEHH WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Y'all got any popcorn?

27 posted on 04/20/2009 11:48:09 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: MediaMole

Especially since the sun is sleeping right now! We are in the quietest period of solar activity in over 100 years, and rapidly approaching the territory of the Dalton and Mauder minimums, whcih, btw were characterized by the ‘Little Ice Age’ The sun is currently in the process of blowing the AGW theory out of the water.

Temps are decreasing and the sun is sleeping? CO2 is going up. What do you think is more important, a little CO2 or the sun in determining global temps?


28 posted on 04/20/2009 11:49:04 AM PDT by milwguy (........)
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To: Mr. K
(seriously a huge supply- surround any electrical appliance you want to save and the electrically induced currents would stay OUTSIDE the surface of the shield. - look up ‘Faraday Cage’)

Your gunsafe is a nice faraday cage as well. Stick a laptop, solar charger, and a portable 1TB hard drive with all the electronic information you'd care to keep safe.

29 posted on 04/20/2009 11:51:22 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (We either Free America ourselves, or it is midnight for humanity for a thousand years.)
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To: MediaMole
Shut off water, electric power, and sewer to (New York City|Washington|Baltimore|Chicago|Los Angeles|Tokyo|Singapore|London|Paris|YouPickACity) for more than a day or two, and watch the fun begin ... Now: consider it happening to all of them at the same time.

Horse Crap? The claim that a solar storm could cause that kind of shutdown may be horse crap, but the consequences if it happened would be catastrophic.

30 posted on 04/20/2009 11:52:32 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: AxelPaulsenJr
This catastrophe is not some academic one-in-a-million chance scenario.

[It’s here, it’s name is Barack Hussein Obama.]

Put the two together and I agree.

31 posted on 04/20/2009 11:52:36 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: EGPWS

How you gonna gear up to manufacture all those flux capacitors.


32 posted on 04/20/2009 11:54:12 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
Y'all got any popcorn?

I'm hoarding my popcorn for me and close family and you can't have any! ; )

33 posted on 04/20/2009 11:54:14 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: AxelPaulsenJr

No, thats a sh!t storm.


34 posted on 04/20/2009 11:54:23 AM PDT by John W
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To: EGPWS

I’ll trade you some pizza!


35 posted on 04/20/2009 11:54:58 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What do you bet when we go into the next ice age they blame global warming.


36 posted on 04/20/2009 11:55:41 AM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: Stentor
How you gonna gear up to manufacture all those flux capacitors.

Flux Capacitors?

For crying out loud, that is old technology. That was "order before midnight" material yesterday. ~ snort

37 posted on 04/20/2009 11:57:23 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Country folk still teach their youngsters how to hunt and field dress their kill, so they’ll be in better shape than those who have been reared to expect their food to appear on supermarket shelves.


38 posted on 04/20/2009 11:57:33 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
I’ll trade you some pizza!

Mmmm....

Now I'm confused, I need to think on that one.....

39 posted on 04/20/2009 11:58:59 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

40 posted on 04/20/2009 11:59:54 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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