You thisnk that's bad?
They had to completely rewire the poor submarine, Seaview, every week on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Posted on 01/08/2009 4:57:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A new study from the National Academy of Sciences outlines grim possibilities on Earth for a worst-case scenario solar storm.
Damage to power grids and other communications systems could be catastrophic, the scientists conclude, with effects leading to a potential loss of governmental control of the situation.
The prediction is based in part on major solar storm in 1859 caused telegraph wires to short out in the United States and Europe, igniting widespread fires.
It was perhaps the worst in the past 200 years, according to the new study, and with the advent of modern power grids and satellites, much more is at risk.
"A contemporary repetition of the [1859] event would cause significantly more extensive (and possibly catastrophic) social and economic disruptions," the researchers conclude.
When the sun is in the active phase of its 11-year cycle, it can unleash powerful magnetic storms that disable satellites, threaten astronaut safety, and even disrupt communication systems on Earth.
The worst storms can knock out power grids by inducing currents that melt transformers.
Modern power grids are so interconnected that a big space storm — the type expected to occur about once a century — could cause a cascade of failures that would sweep across the United States, cutting power to 130 million people or more in this country alone, the new report concludes.
Such widespread power outages, though expected to be a rare possibility, would affect other vital systems.
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“Cycle 24 is late and that’s why it’s getting so cold all around the world”
“Well, if the sun is anything like my wife...”
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Is your wife late?
Uh-oh!
“Is your wife late?”
Always.
The term “people” does not include freepers, who are much better informed than the rest of the sheep ^_^
LOL, I stand corrected.
It’s more believable that those amazing works were done on an etch-a-sketch than those other perfectly straight diagonal roof lines.
Aww, we got an Art Critic here now :)
Anyways, as soon as the Earthquake hits, the Etch-A-Sketch picture will fade quickly before disappearing completely ... then nobody will care if the lines are(were?) perfectly straight or not! After all, this is a gloom-and-doom thread, isn't it ???
/laughs
I can promise you there is no one there looking like that.
Yep, that concept worked out well ...
“Screw these guys - I can FReep in the dark”!
Oh, well said, LOL. That should be a tagline for someone.
Love it.
While the sun is in a lull now, activity can flare up at any moment...
That’s almost what it says on a box of Preparation-H
>>Don’t worry, the Yellowstone volcano will kill us all first.
LOL
I love an optimist
>>Don’t worry, the Yellowstone volcano will kill us all first.
LOL
I love an optimist
All those SUV alternators and AC generators at power plants have added to the earth's magnetic balance, and that is forcing the sun to create more, and more powerful, flares.
If we don't ban SUVs and coal plants NOW, it then becomes a race of whether we cook from AGW, or are flared to death by ASFs!
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You thisnk that's bad?
They had to completely rewire the poor submarine, Seaview, every week on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
As for the diagonals, doable, but very tedious. And no, I don't, would never have, the patience to do one.
Oddly enough, there are those that do. Go figure.
I could join tomorrow, but I hear it’s Nerd Central.
my wife keeps my beeber in a box on her night stand
Does this mean we put on extra SUN BLOCK for our annual trip to Disney World????!!!!
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