Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months, page 2

reply to post by weedwhacker

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I don't think anyone believes that this would only affect the US. I think it's just a case of dumb, US-centric journalism. (It is Fox after all)

I think the previous posters who mentioned it were being sarcastic, something that doesn't always come across in writing.

An event of this type would obviously affect the entire world.

reply to post by TwiTcHomatic

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Someone send Al Gore an email about this! 'Ol Al would know what to do...after all he invented the internet, right? And as we all know, his answer would be a new tax. Carbon base tax to cure global warming...how about a sun tax to cure solar storms. There ya go...problem solved...

[edit on 9-1-2009 by romanmel]

reply to post by MrVertigo

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Yes. Mr. Vertigo, you hit right on to my points!

Well, IF some EMP from the Sun will affect the Earth, then the chance that it WILL ONLY affect one hemisphere of the Earth for just a few hours is ludricous.

Since, as we ALL should be able to realize by now, the Earth tends to reliably rotate about its axis about once every 24 hours....SO, unless this alleged EMP from t he Sun just happens to last for about THREE hours, and ONLY when the USA is exposed, during daylight hours....well, I think that normal people can begin to understand where the logic begins to break down, in this scenario.

Again....science. Versus 'beliefs'....ummm, it's not hard to figure out.....

reply to post by Swatman

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Swat, that was INAPPROPRIATE!!! Besides being mis-spelled and totally off-topic!!

So, if ANYONE wishes to contribute intelligently, please do...(mis-spellings will be forgiven, as long as the content is clear).

reply to post by duffster

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duffster, you may be correct. In fact, from my experience as an airline pilot I know that there are many safeguards built-in to any power system, to help prevent catastrophic failures.

Since a jetliner is a self-contained vehicle, unable to tap into power sources on the ground, while in flight, there are quite a few contingincies involved to cope with possible power failures.

shouldn't a simple faraday-cage protect our electronics? I mean the swiss do it, the military does it, and all government buildings are shielded too. This should not be such a big problem!
shielding in action

reply to post by Carlthulhu

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Carl, maybe you can build a 'Tesla Cage' large enough to encompass the entire Earth....

Or, more likely, we could realize that the Sun has exhibited an 11-year cycle of activity for, well....billions of years...yet, here we are, safe and sound.

And, I'd like to point out that the Electronic Community has been around for most of my life (and I'm going on five decades, so you can do the math) and so far, except for some HF interference, that's about the worst that's happened.

Why, oh why?!? Is this thread getting any attention?

BECAUSE it focuses on the 'U.S.' --- and tends to promote a terrible lack of scientific knowledge of the general public, especially as 'not taught' in the U.S. school system, of late....

reply to post by woogleuk

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YUP!!

Just like the 'turn of the century' debacle, here's another apocolalyptic prediction!!

Well, at least we sitll have three years to think about it....ponder the past reflections, and plan accordingly.....

reply to post by woogleuk

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Well, to my confuddled woogle....in the UK....

Am I expecting you to agree that "A Powerful Solar Storm", as posited by the OP, could equally affect just about every Continent on the Planet Earth??

Listen, to my geological-challenged brethren....the Earth, our World, the Globe we live on rotates about her axis approximately once every 24 of what we call 'hours'.

That is why we have 'day' and 'night'....sorry to make it so basic, but it seems necessary...

Here's the IMPACT of my statement: IF the SUN decides to display a brilliant display of what stars tend to do, there is NO WAY it (our Sun) will decide to restrict its display to the few hours that the hemisphere of the Earth that happens to contain the USA (not to mention the entire continents of South America, and Canada....funny that THEY were not mentioned!!)

Back on point....our star, what we call the 'SUN', will display for hours upon hours, IF this happens as posited. During that time the Earth will keep on turning....

So, I initially asked, a poignant question....meant to be obvious to most....WHY would a 'Powerful Solar Storm' only affect the USA????

Seems that the lack of scientific knowledge is paramount in the lack of credible responses.

Shame.....

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