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What Would Happen if a Massive Solar Storm Hit the Earth?
Gizmodo ^
| 8/20/15
| Maddie Stone
Posted on 08/21/2015 12:33:45 PM PDT by Kartographer
It’s hard to overstate just how much this would uproot our lives. The lights would of course go out, as would the internet, and any device that draws current from the wall. In places with electronically-controlled municipal water supplies — like most modern cities — toilets and sewage treatment systems would stop working. Heating and air conditioning would fail. Perishable food and medication would be lost. ATMs would be useless. Gas pumps would go offline. And so forth.
GPS technology would also be knocked out. Said Grunman, “The GPS system depends on the very precise timing of a course of signals between two points, like a spacecraft and your phone. If you dump a bunch of energetic particles into the atmosphere, that effects your GPS. Which is sobering when you consider the replacement of old aircraft landing technology with GPS.”
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TOPICS: Reference; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; cme; coronalmassejection; ntsa; yawn
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A map showing the at-risk transformer capacity by state for a 4800 nT/min geomagnetic field disturbance. Regions with high percentages of at-risk capacity could experience long-duration outages extending for several years. Image Credit: J. Keppenman, Metatech Corp
To: Kartographer
What Would Happen if a Massive Solar Storm Hit the Earth? I hope it hits at night!!!!!!!
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posted on
08/21/2015 12:35:22 PM PDT
by
BerniesFriend
(I am BerniesFriend, however it's really Bernadette, NOT Bernie Sanders friend!!!!!!!)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
08/21/2015 12:36:23 PM PDT
by
Anitius Severinus Boethius
(www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
To: Kartographer
A very good look at this is a book by my friend Bill Forstchen, called “One Second After,” about an EMP blast. It was #1 on the NYTimes for a while. Terrifying.
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posted on
08/21/2015 12:36:26 PM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: LS
Does he still live in the Montreat area?
To: Kartographer
No transformers are vulnerable in Texas? How’s that possible?
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posted on
08/21/2015 12:37:31 PM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
To: Kartographer
What Would Happen if a Massive Solar Storm Hit the Earth? It would be blamed on Global Warming.
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posted on
08/21/2015 12:37:32 PM PDT
by
Bubba_Leroy
(The Obamanation Continues)
To: BerniesFriend
It would be like the Walking Dead. The young and the stupid would die first with no smart phones, internet, electronic games, or GPS. Oh the humanity!
To: Ancesthntr
To: Kartographer
Only four in California?
Should be simple enough to protect. Shouldn’t they?
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posted on
08/21/2015 12:38:54 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Resettozero
Yes indeed. I showed our film at Montreat College last fall thanks to Bill, and he put us up at his house, and he and I sat up watching “Waterloo” and talking military history most of the evening!
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posted on
08/21/2015 12:40:06 PM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: Kartographer
The envirowacko DemoRATs would be raising hell and blaming it on Republicans for causing “global warming”. The Occupies would throw all the illegals out in the open and occupy all of the shady places.
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posted on
08/21/2015 12:40:26 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Cecil the Lion says, Stop the Slaughter of the Baby Humans!!!)
To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...
Preppers’ PING!!
This is not meant for 99.999% of preppers:
If you don’t even know what the Carrington event of September, 1859 is then don’t show you ignorance by comment your expertise on the subject.
Signed The Professor
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posted on
08/21/2015 12:40:27 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
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posted on
08/21/2015 12:40:46 PM PDT
by
discostu
(It always comes down to cortexiphan)
To: Kartographer
Best to be armed when it happens.
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posted on
08/21/2015 12:41:04 PM PDT
by
samtheman
(2014: Voters elect Repubs to congress... 2015: Repubs defund NOTHING... 2016: Trump/Cruz)
To: Wilderness Conservative
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posted on
08/21/2015 12:42:22 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: LS
His sequel to that book is due out mid-September.
“One Year After”
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posted on
08/21/2015 12:43:42 PM PDT
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: Kartographer
To: Kartographer
Toasted marshmallows for everyone!
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posted on
08/21/2015 12:47:35 PM PDT
by
Ray76
(When a gov't leads it's people down a path of destruction resistance is not only a right but a duty.)
To: BerniesFriend
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posted on
08/21/2015 12:47:38 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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