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)

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Think your "prepper" archives are safe online, or on a memory stick ?
Need to telephone somone ? No Internet connection for VOP/ No cellphone. No landline comms. No tablet.
No television or internet gaming .
No radio transmissions giving updates , or information.
Possible battery breakdown for automobiles, flashlights, with no possibility for rechargers.
No refridgeration = spoiled foods.
No Running water (no pumps).. how do you handle fire prevention?
Can you survive for more than one week without convenience of electricity ?

[Mr_Moonlight]

FUD

[AppyPappy]

We are all going to die.

[Buckeye McFrog]

No phone, no lights, no motor car,
Not a single luxury
Like Robinson Crusoe
It’s primitive as can be.

[DCBryan1]

We are domed! DOMED I tell you!

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

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Carrington Event like 1859 could re-occur

Are you prepared ?
The time to prepare is in the time of plenty.
Do you have camping supplies ?
Ever camped in the wintertime ?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

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

[Innovative]

Keep important documents and info as paper, not just on the computer.

[Mr_Moonlight]

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

LOL ... Post Of The Day :)

[al baby]

emp dont affect rim fire or center fire so im good

[Gamecock]

[al baby]

Ever camped in the wintertime

Yes the summer I spent in San Francisco

[kanawa]

No .... internet gaming

Shoot me

[fruser1]

If it happens, I just hope it’s preceded by Trump on live TV saying “oh yeah, watch this!”

[RayChuang88]

That's assuming if we have another solar maximum by 2020. Some scientists say we could be heading for another Maunder Minimum situation, where we may not have sunspot cycles for possibly decades like what happened between 1645 and 1715.

[preacher]

later

[oh8eleven]

We are domed!
Sounds hugh and series.

[GraceG]

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

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

Can help us survive: nuclear war, biological pandemic (assuming strict immigration controls), asteroid strike, Gamma Ray burst, supernova particle front stripping away all atmosphere, solar mass ejections etc...

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

"Ever camped in the wintertime ?"

al baby :"Yes the summer I spent in San Francisco "

Pansey ! I meant out in the snow ?
You do have gloves , right ? Just in case .

[FreeReign]

Wait. I thought the sun was going quit for a few years, or at least sunspots were.