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)

[Farmer Dean]

This is why we bought an EMP hardened generator,an MEP-802A.We have 2000 gallons of diesel here on the farm so we’re set for awhile.

[discostu]

Or not.

[ctdonath2]

You've got a left-double-quote, not a straight-double-quote. Lose the semicolon. And no space before the "img".

[DannyTN]

[Yo-Yo]

Maybe I’ll rethink upgrading my iPhone. No sense in frying a brand new one.

[FrankR]

“Chicken Little” lives on....

[353FMG]

Re-enter the slide rule age.

[JusPasenThru]

Meow. https://youtu.be/QNwCojCJ3-Q

[Inyo-Mono]

Frontier internet is down in West central FL all day. Looks like some other outages today including the LA area

Frontier keeps sending me ads through the mail trying to get us to sign up with them. No thanks.

[Paladin2]

All metal garages and tin Foil rooms.

[Morpheus2009]

Somebody needs to build a new company called Vault Tech, which builds self-contained vaults. Each Vault gets a GECK, which rapidly turns irradiated wasteland d clean. And when you leave, be prepared for Raiders and mutants in the wasteland.

[D_Idaho]

I’m stuned!

[I want the USA back]

We have been warned about this for years. Nothing new.

[Trillian]

Is it bad that the first thing I noticed was the Simpsons on the top of the bed? ;)

[GingisK]

I still have my Post Versalog slide rule, and only a few of my measuring tools are digital.

[Pontiac]

Our power grid is so antiquated it might actually survive a massive solar storm just fine. I’d be more concerned with the trains not being able to get coal or gas to the power plant to fuel it.

You have misinformed.

The operation of the grid is highly computerized.

But your comment about trains is spot on.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

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

I believe that is the Maunder minimum that yo are referring to :
Spörer noted that, during one 28-year period within the Maunder Minimum (1672–1699),
observations showed fewer than 50 sunspots, as opposed to a more typical 40,000–50,000 spots in modern times.
This resulted in significantly low temperatures recorded in Europe.
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum

[GingisK]

Oh, the huge manatee!

[Pajamajan]

K. So how much of my money is going to need to be confiscated by our elitist politicians, so they can "Save the Earth" this time?

And what individual rights should I give up, in order to heal our planet? (/s)

[OldNewYork]

Eventually.

We should just ban solar storms.