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Whirlibird 1 year, 6 months ago.
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Government Agency Warning: Space Storms Could Cause Mass BLACKOUTS
I am kinda skeptical about the claims by the report. IIRC the Carrington Event of 1859 was detected by Carrington like 17hours before it hit earth.
Though there was a US report about a Carrington like event if it were to happen today. If you are counting on GPS for something, you might want to rethink that.
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Oh, it’s way worse. We had a near miss in 2012:
Solar flare nearly destroyed Earth 2 years ago: NASA
“The power of this ejection would have raced across space to knock us back to the Dark Ages. It’s believed a direct CME hit would have the potential to wipe out communication networks, GPS and electrical grids to cause widespread blackout. The article goes on to say it would disable “everything that plugs into a wall socket. Most people wouldn’t even be able to flush their toilet because urban water supplies largely rely on electric pumps.”This article isn’t speculation; the power of the ejection was directly observed and recorded. Remember, once those grid intertie transformers blow, there’s only two companies that make them, and onsies-twosies wait time is two years now. So it’ll take a long time to come back.
EMP = Blackout = No gas = No supplies transport = starvation & disease. Forget about the “inconvenience” of losing GPS.
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This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by
Mouse Wizard.
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Those are probably two of the best semi technical explanations I’ve heard in years.
My grandfather walked me through this stuff 25 years ago and it was way too technical for me at the time.
He spent 30 years in the nuclear trade, and unfortunately passed on before I really got to understand the concept and differences.
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