. On the upside the death of the world’ s electric grid, although billions would die, would spell an end to the global police/surveillance state.
. Starting to think that Thermos from “the Avengers” was on to something.
In urban settings, the two legged RATS would be fighting with the four legged rats for food.
I see a dystopian movie in this scenario. Does anyone know what buffet Seagal is at, or is Kurt Russell busy?
I agree, you may find a good article in reference to just such an event which took place some thousands of years ago at VIEWZONE.COM where it was depicted by cave dwellers by drawings on cave walls in form of coronas commonly found by electrical discharges. Of course they did not know what it was or where it came from, they just used caves for cover.
Here is an excerpt from the article in VIEWZONE.COM magazine related to one of these ancient solar events you may find interesting. If it happened once it certainly could happen again, I hope it doesn’t but if it did a nuclear EMP event would be nothing in comparison. It is an old article hence there is some reference to 2012, but its just as valid now as it was then.
Yes, there’s more!
What will it be like when this happens to us? Perhaps the most dramatic evidence of what we can expect in 2012 comes from the most unlikely place — ancient petroglyphs! Ancient rock carvings from around the globe, created during the last solar “zap” 14,950 years ago, seem to illustrate a spectacular event that happened when the Earth was last hit by extremely high radiation. This is a little difficult to explain, but I’ll try.
Viewed from the top, the aurora actually forms a luminous and electrically charged cup (or chalice) shape extending into space from each pole.
We are all familiar with the sparks that flash brightly when we discharge electrical current. Lightening is a good example. Extremely high energy, called plasma, has been shown to form unique shapes when it is made to discharge — especially around a sphere. The northern lights are an example of how this “spark” of plasma can form luminous, electrically charged sheets or tubes at the Earth’s poles. The aurora, as it is called, occurs when mild energy from our Sun is trapped and dissipated by the Earth’s magnetic poles.
Extremely high energy — the type that would have caused the Moon glass and zapped the Earth — creates a more elaborate discharge. Physicists call it a z-pinch formation. The z-pinch has been extensively researched by a group headed by Anthony L. Peratt with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and is described in his paper, Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current Z-Pinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity Part II: Directionality and Source[5]. In this paper, Dr. Peratt illustrates the shape and characteristics of this high energy discharge on the Earth and shows thousands of petroglyph sites all over the globe where this z-pinch was observed and recorded in ancient carvings.
The term z-pinch originates from experiments where physicists made extremely high current to flow through thin wires that were arranged vertically in a tubular formation. They noticed that the energy quickly vaporized the wires, but the magnetic field generated by these paths remained and contained (or “pinched”) the stream of energy, collapsing the streams of energy toward the center of the tube-like configuration — called the z-axis. When the streams of energy converge, they form unique shapes that persist and can be observed as Birkeland elements, named for their discoverer.
Losing the fiber optic cables would be a more direct curtailment of surveillance (internet) without loss of electrical grid.