Posted on 10/23/2013 6:34:41 AM PDT by NYer
One of these days, there will be another Carrington Event.
There will be a huge coronal mass ejection from your planet’s yellow star that strikes your planet square on. The result will be a vast electromagnetic pulse which fries almost all your electronic stuff. You will be plunged in an instant back to something like the 19th century.
Will you have what it takes to survive?
On the other hand, perhaps there will be nuclear attacks that cause EMPs, or perhaps there will be a pandemic or other natural events which brings down the world’s economy, resulting in much the same.
On that cheery note, I read at Spaceweather:
ERUPTING FILAMENT AND EARTH-DIRECTED CME: During the early hours of Oct. 22nd, a long filament of magnetism erupted on the sun: movie. The explosion hurled a lopsided CME into space, and a new analysis suggests it could be Earth-directed. Click to watch the movie, then scroll down for more information:
The eruption occured squarely on the Earthside of the sun, but the CME is not squarely Earth-directed. The bulk of the ejecta will fly north of the sun-Earth line. Nevertheless, the CME is expected to deliver a glancing blow to Earth’s magnetic field on Oct. 24-25. It might even merge with a pair of minor CMEs traveling ahead of it. If so, the combined impact would be more likely to spark a geomagnetic storm. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras in the nights ahead.
Watch for auroras!
They are events of terrible beauty, presaging we know not what.
Something to look forward to, ping ; - )!
And on the other hand, the chances are much better that life will go on as usual.
Terrific. The sky is falling again. But never on certain publishers. Why is that?
Cool, I’ll be able to wear my steampunk clothes every day!
...where’s my tinfoil hat?...
I loaned my to a liberal friend years ago—and never got it back.
“The result will be a vast electromagnetic pulse which fries almost all your electronic stuff. You will be plunged in an instant back to something like the 19th century.
Will you have what it takes to survive?”
Well, I can distill alcohol, so even if I don’t have what it takes to survive, I’ll at least have what it takes to make the experience tolerable.
(link to the Free Republic thread)
You just made my day : - 0
It would be great if we could put the brakes on and have a soft landing in the 19th century, but that is a pipe dream.
The 19th century had a very complex economic and industrial infrastructure base manufacturing and distributing things like cast iron stoves, well pumps, and farm equipment. It took all that decades to evolve to its 19th Century form.
None of that exists today. Today, our food comes from 100s or 1,000s of miles away by truck. Four days after “lights out,” every truck (that was still running) will be out of fuel and looted.
Then mass starvation, and nationwide looting and food riots. Then Mad Max anarchy, or “at best” some kind of martial law that resembles China or the USSR circa 1950.
“At best.”
Alas, Brave New Babylon.
I love 19th century tech! Tremendously labor saving and yet powered by hand. One of my favorites for this time of year is this baby:
http://www.juiceland.co.uk/item—Apple-Peeler-Corer-Slicer-with-Suction-Base—PADAPPLESUCK.html
Peels, cores, and slices apples in seconds with just a hand crank. Things like this will just laugh at an EMP or outage when everyone’s fancy electronic gizmos are doorstops.
Few people realize how fragile their food supply chain really is. Any hiccups and things are no longer available.
There have been two CME’s in the past year that were in our orbit but in front of or behind us that could have made life difficult.
October 13, 1973[emphasis, mine]
"My dear daughter, listen well to what I have to say to you. You will inform your superior."
After a short silence:
"As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by My Son. Each day recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and priests." --from apparitions, Akita, Japan
Yep. There are a dozen ways the grid could go down, and a Carrington is only one of them.
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