[txnativegop]

hate to lose FR, but in the main, we should be so lucky. /s

[Steely Tom]

Well... keep me in the loop on this one.

[stylin19a]

Might get a 2-fer if Hillary is holding her blackberrry

[Exeter]

Hey! Wait a second! Didn’t everyone say that Y2K would wipe out the Internet in 2000? I stopped using it because of what the experts told me, and now after 16 years you tell me it didn’t happen, I could have been on line all that time, but it doesn’t matter because this time it’s crashing for sure??!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Or not.

[KarlInOhio]

12% chance in 4 years = 3% chance per year. 3% per year = 50% chance every 23 years. ( log(.5)/log(1-.03))

So either the chances have gone up considerably lately or someone is fibbing. Most likely the latter. I could see the doctor saying there is a 12% chance of a solar storm in the next four year and then the press bumping that up to the absolute maximum - like saying you have a 50% chance of being in a car crash in the next 10 years and immediately skipping the most likely fender bender and proclaim that you will be killed in a explosively flaming crash at 120 mph within a couple years.

When anyone quotes a scientist without giving a link to the original paper I smell a rat.

[Slip18]

Back to the slide rule, snail mail, talking to your neighbors, COD orders, (OMG) camping, No camping.

Not being an engineer, will my solar off grid I am building still work?

[Read Write Repeat]

This will be awesome for my mobile phone charger that uses a solar panel.

[calenel]

Nope.

If the last big one was before the Civil War, more than 160 years ago, how could there possibly be a 12% chance in the next four years? We should have had a half dozen of them since. While it could happen, the odds are substantially less than 12%.

Plus, if it does happen, nobody will be able to tell me “I told you so!” ;)

[onedoug]

Phooey!

[Organic Panic]

I will make a fortune on my vacume tube cell phones

[stocksthatgoup]

Same global warming scientists?

[lepton]

So the price would be...a year of Obama fiat money?

[pissant]

Yeah,and Y2K was going to flatten half the worlds microprocessors too.

[dp0622]

There’s a one in eight chance that you’ll get hit by something if I ever lose enough weight to get out there :)

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

There is a 99.99999% chance that bears will poop in the woods tonight.

[Bullish]

some people are just always crying wolf to get attention.

[Axenolith]

This means that satellite signals will struggle to penetrate the swollen atmosphere, OMG, worst science writing of the quarter, if not YEAR!

[mindburglar]

My tinfoil hat will save me.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Not likely as we are entering a solar minimum which means almost no activity.