Sun's Plasma Balls Could Wipe Out Human Civilization....

Natural News ^ | October 11th, 2009

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human sacrifice....dogs and cats living together.....mass hysteria!

Yep.

[coconutt2000]

Al Gore will find some way to make a profit off of this.

[Hot Tabasco]

In 1859, a CME known as the Carrington event produced auroras as far south as the equator and caused severe disruptions to the world's telegraph systems."

Hogwash! Reliable sources say it was a squirrel who chewed thru one of the telegraph lines in New York.........

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Sun's Plasma Balls Could Wipe Out Human Civilization....

Now we know who wears the pants in that family.

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Major downer. A very bleak movie. It left me feeling like I did when I went to the planetarium as a kid and heard that the sun would eventually die out and leave earth lifeless. But I guess they really wanted all those scenes of mass destruction and couldn’t think of any way Nick Cage would survive the cataclysm.

[ApplegateRanch]

DOOOOOOM!

[Salamander]

“Driver, where you takin’ us?” ping.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LtPVBqQsf8

[Salamander]

Nothing apocalyptic.

http://www.meteorologynews.com/2009/10/12/hole-punch-cloud-not-ufo-spotted-over-moscow/

[shibumi]

And firey balls are begotten of firey balls, as foretold by the prophets of the Firesign Theater:

"Before the beginning, there was this turtle. And the turtle was alone. And he looked around, and he saw his neighbor, which was his mother. And he lay down on top of his neighbor, and behold! she bore him in tears an oak tree, which grew all day and then fell over -- like a bridge. And lo! underneath the bridge there came a catfish. And he was very big. And he was walking. And he was the biggest he had seen. And so were the fiery balls of this fish, one of which is the sun, and the other, they called the moon."

[ForGod'sSake]

Nothing apocalyptic.

Probably not but there doesn't seem to be any viable explanation how these "holes" or donuts form. Gotta wonder if there isn't something hitting our atmosphere, maybe from outside our solar system even. I don't guess we even know for sure our very own benevolent sun couldn't somehow be shooting directed particles of some kind at us occasionally. Truly interesting phenomenon in any case.

[Grimmy]

All we need to do to counter this threat is to have canisters of sun screen mounted on all our orbiting satellites.

When the sun starts spitting at us, the sun screen gets released. Problem solved.

And, it can be the cheap sun screen. No need for the water proof stuff. It doesn’t rain often enough in space to justify the extra expense.

[Nowhere Man]

I think if you had the fuel and resources, you can start up power generation real fast in local areas if you had a diesel or gas generator but it would take a while to repair the grid. I think each electrical utilities would have to “island” their repair efforts to their areas like Duquesne Light would concern themselves with Western PA and so on. Texas is it’s own grid, IIRC, they are 23 degrees out of phase with the national grid. Your car and radio should still work but again, unless the gas station has a generator, you’d be using a 12 volt pump or a hand pump to get gas.

[wafflehouse]

If “human civilization” has grown this dependent on electricity, it’s hardly worthy of the name.

That might be unduly harsh. dependency on electricity isnt so bad. the bad thing is being dependent on a distribution system with a huge vulnerability like this

[LearsFool]

But this isn’t a question of ME being dependent on electricity to do my job, or of YOU being dependent on electricity to cook your dinner. The claim is that human civilization depends on electricity.

If that claim is true - and for some pockets of humanity it may very well be, as we discover with every blackout - then “civilization” is hardly a fitting term for such cultures. But civilization existed before electricity. And if plasma balls from the sun wipe out electricity, civilization will exist without it.

Oh, maybe not in New Orleans or Detroit. But those cultures have only the thinnest veneer hiding their barbarianism anyway. Turn out the lights and that veneer is stripped away. Then you’ll see horrors galore.

[happygrl]

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