Solar flare nearly destroyed Earth 2 years ago: NASA

New York Post ^ | 7/24/14 | James Billington

[FlingWingFlyer]

Crap! We missed an excellent opportunity for the Kenyan to have been only a one termer!!! Dang!

[Utilizer]

Also posted here:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3184723/posts

[hosepipe]

OR.... Not...

[xrmusn]

I really find this hard to believe as if it had really happened, BO would have come out and claimed he ordered all aircraft in the country to rev up their propellers and shift our orbit a skiosh, thereby allowing us to avoid danger.

He then went golfing.

[Vendome]

Oh gosh!

/s

[4rcane]

sound BS to me. We’ve been hearing this type of news almost every year

[lonevoice]

Oh, my.

[BradyLS]

It’s always something. Isn’t a debt load of $18 trillion enough?

[JennysCool]

sound BS to me. We’ve been hearing this type of news almost every year

Yup. Keep the sheeple in constant fear of whatever occurs to the bureaucrats this week. Otherwise, they might realize the federal government has become a completely useless entity that just sucks up money for the bureaucrats and gives nothing back.

[Smokin' Joe]

A miss is as good as a mile.

[Telepathic Intruder]

We would have lost some communication satellites, that’s it.

[LukeL]

During another CME in the mid 1800s it was reported that telegraph lines were sending info with the circuits open, and that blue sparks were arcing off of the lines for hours.

Now imagine that with our power and communications grid. Trillions of dollars in electronic equipment could be fried, transformers rendered useless, etc.

[Salamander]

Playing horseshoes with the universe.

;]

[Forgotten Amendments]

I guess this means we should keep giving NASA more $$$$ to screw around!

[Telepathic Intruder]

The reason that happened was because telegraph lines were hundreds of miles long without interruption, so otherwise tiny charges could build up with distance.

[pallis]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, enough of this global warming hoodoo.

[mazda77]

Be mindful that we have also learned a great deal about grounding since then as well. Are you aware of how and why capacitors work?

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Sorry we’re so late reporting this. We’ve been busy looking for approaching ASTEROIDS.

[Gaffer]

Just another example of academic pandering for grants, contracts and other funding to “continue studying” a problem about which we can prevent nothing.

“If it had occurred earlier.....”, “ odds are....” “bigger than Katrina...” blah blah blah.

They certainly weren’t out there telling anyone about the CME event BEFORE it happened, were they? Even if they had, the chances the Obama Administration would have rolled the dice and said nothing is very high.

The only proactive thing we could do is to develop an infrastructure that could deal effectively disaster....maybe we could call it FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency). THEN, if we were smart about it, we’d make sure it was run well, by somebody competent, say like Walmart? Regardless, under THIS administration, all we’d get is blame, blustering and bullsh!t.