June 14, 201015 yr http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7...evastation.html Summary: In 2013 solar flares are likely to wreak havoc on electronic equipment. Proper havoc. "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp.
June 14, 201015 yr I knew it, the Mayans were wrong. 2013 it is then... Time to stock up on matches, canned food and bottled water? If it hits Earth like an oversized EMP grenade, we might want to practise living without internet and computers for a while. Thinking about it, those were actually the "good" old days “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
June 14, 201015 yr Scientists are aware of the immense power of the sun's solar flares, but modern human history has never experienced a proper solar storm the likes of which happens every 100 years or so. The kind that would obliterate much of Earth's electronics, and certainly all satellites. Chilling when you think about it. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/26/1743255 http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/01/01...diation-Katrina
June 14, 201015 yr Cool, the time of books is upon us. It's not Christmas anymore but I've fallen in love with these two songs: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=HXjk3P5LjxY http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=NJJ18aB2Ggk
June 14, 201015 yr Author If I faraday cage my office will that help? "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp.
June 14, 201015 yr Meh, more panic mongering. "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan
June 14, 201015 yr Meh, more panic mongering. It's not panic mongering if it's true. A large solar flare would be...pretty destructive to our society. "The universe is a yawning chasm, filled with emptiness and the puerile meanderings of sentience..." - Ulyaoth "It is all that is left unsaid upon which tragedies are built." - Kreia "I thought this forum was for Speculation & Discussion, not Speculation & Calling People Trolls." - lord of flies
June 14, 201015 yr As long as I can play Mass Effect 3, Halflife2 Episode 3, Portal 2 and Alpha Protocol 2 before it all comes crashing down, I'll be happy. I took this job because I thought you were just a legend. Just a story. A story to scare little kids. But you're the real deal. The demon who dares to challenge God. So what the hell do you want? Don't seem to me like you're out to make this stinkin' world a better place. Why you gotta kill all my men? Why you gotta kill me? Nothing personal. It's just revenge.
June 14, 201015 yr Solar flares? Pah, gimme the real deal: a gamma-ray burst. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
June 14, 201015 yr Aaaaw, and here I was, thinking I could play Hearts on Fire while the world around me burns. Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13.
June 14, 201015 yr Solar flares would kill the power grid and fry anything electrical that was on. That would probably mean a couple of months of chaos and a couple of years of making due while we reconstituted the infrastructure. Not Armageddon though. Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all.
June 14, 201015 yr So....late 2012 sounds like a good time to pull most of our money out of the computerized/electronic banking/investment system & start stuffing both cash and bricks of gold in the mattress. Snail mail might become popular again! Pony Express comeback? And imagine...a world without working ATM's for long periods. THE HORROR! Still gaming with my 9900k/2080ti/32 ram. One day I suppose a game may inspire me to finally upgrade. Maybe.
June 15, 201015 yr I think Dagon is believing that Nasa is just full of garbage. I'd be interesting if this did happen as you'd probably see the world population dip significantly because things wouldn't be very organized for a bit (I doubt it'd turn into widespread orgy of destruction). Also depending on how things go, we might have a case where global travel was stopped for quite a bit as they figured out how to get planes working again. Well, at least quick global travel. Doubt it'd be long enough for genetic variation between populations to actually crop up. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
June 15, 201015 yr These events seem cyclical. What happened 11 years ago? Or 22 years ago? Since one happens every 22 years, while the other every 11 years. "A more likely scenario was that large areas, including northern Europe and Britain which have
June 15, 201015 yr These events seem cyclical. What happened 11 years ago? Or 22 years ago? Since one happens every 22 years, while the other every 11 years. "A more likely scenario was that large areas, including northern Europe and Britain which have
June 15, 201015 yr Well, supposedly this is a much larger flare than the 11 year one. I'll know more as it approaches (as I'll actually be taking classes in it) but I'm guessing that not only will this be fairly large, but we might see some data damage as the storm is MAGNETIC in part. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
June 15, 201015 yr Oh this'll be fun. "Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"
June 15, 201015 yr The other thing is that for some reason or another, there's a gigantic hole in the Earth's magnetic shield at the moment: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/n...aky_shield.html
June 15, 201015 yr Author Wait, so it could affect ALL the electrics in the house? With a possibility of widespread fires? I'm thinking we should train the neighbourhood up as a firefighting auxiliary. "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp.
June 15, 201015 yr Maybe it'll just hit the pacific and we'll all be fine. That's how it works right? There are none that are right, only strong of opinion. There are none that are wrong, only ignorant of facts
June 15, 201015 yr considering earth rotates, no. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
June 15, 201015 yr So the solar flare will last over 4 hours? There are none that are right, only strong of opinion. There are none that are wrong, only ignorant of facts
June 15, 201015 yr So the solar flare will last over 4 hours? That's not how it works. A solar flare isn't like a laser, hitting a precise spot. It's a wind of highly energetic particles that plays havoc with, and gets dispersed across, earth's various electromagnetic systems. It might be fair to say, however, that the night-time side of the earth would escape the damage. I'm no expert on geophysics though.
June 15, 201015 yr Like a hair drier into a bowl of soup? There are none that are right, only strong of opinion. There are none that are wrong, only ignorant of facts
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