Posted on 10/14/2009 8:32:04 PM PDT by TaraP
I agree with your comments. I spent about 12 years on a 120 acre farm in the middle of no-where Missouri as a kid.
I could survive in that environment if I had to.
You are right that people are complacent. I know I am more than I should be.
Why has the discoveries of science always awed mankind? Especially when it talks of things that overwhelm our wee powers?
I guess the answer would be similar to why do people like to get frights at Halloween?
Hunger for the transcendent in the absence of a God faith, maybe....
Yes - about 7 minutes. But - I wish it could be like that Twilight Zone episode where the Sun goes and the guy (Merideth Burgess??) figures it out while it is still night in Manhatten. He has the rest of the night to set things right - and finally gets the gumption to ask the girl out on a date and they spend the evening together before the dawn brings them around to the exploding Sun.
Alas - like most catastrophic things - you won’t have time to prepare and it will be in an instant. So, remember to give your loved ones an extra hug and a kiss each time.
Catastrophic!
Donate all of your money to the Dimwit party now or the big balls will get you!
Apparently the plasma travels far slower than light, so we’d have many hours of warning. Shutting down the grid for a number of hours, even days, would be very inconvenient (and a bit expensive - think about lost food, etc.), but you’d be able to start it up again and fix the damage. But we’d still need spare parts, a coherent plan and spare food and water available.
EMP would be a real killer - no warning, and a far more harmful pulse of energy. Much of the planning would protect against both events, and not be too expensive (at least not compared to bailing out corrupt investment bankers).
Possibly enough to crash this extremely complex machine we've created for our comfort and convenience. I just hope the damned thing never happens, but hope ain't a plan.
Could be. There is a fascination with it though, no doubt about it.
I don’t see this report to be way way out. I just question the wisdom of putting it out there for people to ruminate over.
In an age when people go postal for little or no reason, it doesn’t seem like it would be all that hard for folks to realize it’s just not a good idea to push some people’s buttons like this.
I had a friend back in the 1980s, that heard that the planets were going to line up in the early 1990s, and they were sure the world was coming to an end. He obsessed over this for a decade. He really was afraid of this event. I think it sent him over the edge to the point where he wouldn’t make plans and move on with his life. It was a strange thing to be sure.
Clearly we have polluted the sun. SAVE THE SUN!!!!!!!!
Nice thing about FR is you can always scroll past the things that tempt you to put your tinfoil hat on.
Well where's the fun in that?
LOL, true. I don’t mind reading this stuff myself, but I do realize there are people out there who shouldn’t be reading some of it. You take care.
What if we discovered that dumping a sufficiently sized object into the sun could provoke such a flare, and in a somewhat controllable way?
Now we would be speculating about sun wars.
Jesus Christ is the answer, but first people have to grasp the question. Or like the old Baptist preacher said, you have to get them lost before you can get them saved. Unless you know you’re wounded or broken you have no desire to be healed or mended. Stuff like this could provoke evil or good. I personally wouldn’t go around blaring such stories to people myself, but if God is omnipotent then it’s trivial for him to work this too to his ends.
I love a good science thread. Thanks!
Excellent synopsis. But you forgot to mention that the fireball is ALWAYS going to hit us 25 or 30 years in the future and an endless stream of research grants is required to further study the problem. Each research project will end with the conclusion that the problem is STILL 25 to 30 years away and another research project is urgently needed to further study the problem.
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I disagree. Usually we get about 2 days warning that a CME is on the way. We should be able to stockpile food and fuel and shut down the electrical grid for the day that it hits. Everything would have to be off and it should survive as long as it is not connected to ground.
This should be no big deal. I am not an EE, but I do have a masters in physics and I also stayed at a Holiday inn last night.
Eh, it happens.
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