Originally posted by LeTan
Let it come. I grow tired of our "modern" life. Put people to work when their survival is on the line, not for the next blackberry or iPad that is coming out.

Nothing we can do about it but sit back, relax, enjoy the show and then get to work in the fields.

I have to agree, I think some event needs to happen to make people think about the Earth, not apocalypse, probably some darkness for days or anything that will make people wake up and think more about nature and the planet than what is the newest iPhone as you saild.

Not that I'm not interested in some of these latest gadgets but the fact that Im discussing such things here means I haven't let materialism go over my head.

Oh no, now this is extreme doom and gloom. Now lets see the experts come in and undermine all the future catastrophe.

Originally posted by LeTan
Let it come. I grow tired of our "modern" life. Put people to work when their survival is on the line, not for the next blackberry or iPad that is coming out.

Nothing we can do about it but sit back, relax, enjoy the show and then get to work in the fields.

So everyone else should suffer because YOU are tired of modern life? Nice..

Originally posted by RMFX1

Originally posted by LeTan
Let it come. I grow tired of our "modern" life. Put people to work when their survival is on the line, not for the next blackberry or iPad that is coming out.

Nothing we can do about it but sit back, relax, enjoy the show and then get to work in the fields.

So everyone else should suffer because YOU are tired of modern life? Nice..

It's not like if anything ever happens on that scale, It would be directly because of me. So no, I think you miss understand me.

It's more along the lines of, if the solar flare does hit, there's nothing I or the rest of humanity can do about it, so It may as well come to pass, and the only thing I can do is sit back and enjoy it. At that point, what else can you do?

Be interesting to see how world leaders and governments react closer to the time, will give us a real for who cares and who doesn't.

Health care providers are going to need a triage system and some sort of emergency power source even if there is a slight chance this could happen, let's hope we see some preparations soon.

Originally posted by TheGreatest
Be interesting to see how world leaders and governments react closer to the time, will give us a real for who cares and who doesn't.

Health care providers are going to need a triage system and some sort of emergency power source even if there is a slight chance this could happen, let's hope we see some preparations soon.

Closer to what time? The doom and gloom scenario does not have a high chance of happening. It is just a "what if".

Originally posted by LeTan
Let it come. I grow tired of our "modern" life. Put people to work when their survival is on the line, not for the next blackberry or iPad that is coming out.

Nothing we can do about it but sit back, relax, enjoy the show and then get to work in the fields.

Well disconnect yourself from "modern life." Everyone else (normal people) I'm pretty sure prefer not to be working in the fields.

I Never will understand how some look forward to death and destruction,

Don't know if you've seen this, was posted on GlobalPost today.

Better get all your texting, emailing, Facebooking and Tweeting in now, because if the sun has its way, within the next decade technology may be obsolete.

According to the International Journal of Research and Applications, there is a one in eight chance the earth will experience a massive solar storm within the next decade.

Pete Riley, a senior space scientist at Predictive Science in San Diego, California, published the one in eight estimate in Space Weather. Even he was surprised at the likelihood of the event, he told Wired Magazine. “Even if it’s off by a factor of two, that’s a much larger number than I thought," he said.

The last major solar flare event took place 150 years ago on September 1, 1859, and is known as the Carrington Event. The New York Times described the event as, "The Brilliant Display on Sunday Night, The present generation have listened with wonder and admiration to the stories their fathers and mothers have told them of auroras and meteors. They have opened their ears and mouths and eyes as they heard of stars falling from the heavens like rain, of the sky at night becoming red as with blood, and in the day time of its being so darkened that stars were visible. Few have had the opportunities of witnessing these sublime displays; but on Sunday night the heavens were arrayed in a drapery more gorgeous than they have been for years…Such was the aurora, as thousands witnessed it from housetops and from pavements. Many imagined they heard rushing sounds as if Aeolus had let loose winds."

While the sight may have been beautiful, it destroyed communication at the time, with reports of telegraph wires bursting into flames.

Now imagine this happening in 2012.

Earth Island Journal cites a National Academy of Sciences report which estimates a “century-class” solar storm could cause 20 times the damage as Hurricane Katrina while “full recovery could take four to ten years.”

NASA has proposed a "Solar Shield" project that would protect the United States power grid, which would include reinforcing power stations and stockpiling replacement parts at a cost of around $1 billion dollars. The US House of Representatives passed the bill necessary to move forward with the proposed project, however Senate has failed to act on Solar Shield Bill H.R.668.