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THE TERMINATION EVENT: Something big may be about to happen on the sun. "We call it the Termination Event," says Scott McIntosh, a solar physicist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), "and it's very, very close to happening."
If you've never heard of the Termination Event, you're not alone. Many researchers have never heard of it either. It's a relatively new idea in solar physics championed by McIntosh and colleague Bob Leamon of the University of Maryland - Baltimore County. According to the two scientists, vast bands of magnetism are drifting across the surface of the sun. When oppositely-charged bands collide at the equator, they annihilate (or "terminate"). There's no explosion; this is magnetism, not anti-matter. Nevertheless, the Termination Event is a big deal. It can kickstart the next solar cycle into a higher gear.
A severe solar storm could knock the large sections of the electrical power grid out for years, but solar storms would not damage electronics equipment at ground level that is not connected to the electrical power grid or other very long lines.
Myth: Solar storms only affect the side of the Earth that is facing the sun at the time that the storm arrives.
Fact: Solar storms, especially the most severe solar storms, tend to disturb the entire magnetic field of the Earth. The effect of the solar storm tends to be much greater near the geomagnetic poles, but it matters little whether it is night or day. When the electrical power grid of Quebec was shut down by a solar storm on March 13, 1989, the power grid was operating normally at 2:44 a.m., but the entire Quebec grid was off by 2:46 a.m. It went from normal operation to complete shutdown in the middle of the night over a span of only 92 seconds.
Myth: Severe solar storms can damage automobiles and trucks.
Fact: Solar storms, no matter how severe, will not damage vehicles. This is a myth that has arisen in the past few years, and that just will not go away. (If you have an electric car, and it is plugged in to the electrical grid for charging, it is conceivable, though very unlikely, that it could be damaged.) A nuclear EMP can damage automobiles through the E1 component, which is not present on the surface of the Earth during a solar storm.
Geomagnetic storms (like the Carrington event) are not the same as an EMP. Electronic devices are not affected by geomagnetic storms unless they happen to be plugged into the power grid.
If this turns out to be the case be sure to be prepared Faraday Cage your valuable electronics
If this turns out to be the case be sure to be prepared Faraday Cage your valuable electronics, I understand it mentions nowhere in the article about the possibility of a Carrington Event but the fact remains we are due and this could be the trigger.
This could be Biblical.
originally posted by: Spacespider
What ever gods creations have in store for me, I am ready
I just wish I have a first row seat when it happens.
edit: heck that sounded abit morbid.. but I was just stating in a unchangeable saturation, the only logical move would to embrace the unchangeable.
As kids we figured the world would end in a nuclear holocaust and like you we fantasized about having a lawnchair to sit in with a beer in one hand a smoke in the other.