Meltdown! A solar superstorm could send us back into the dark ages - one is due in just THREE years

dailymail.co.uk ^ | April 19, 2009 | Michael Hanlon

[dfwgator]

Red skies at night
Red skies at night
Woh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh

(repeat)

Should have taken warning
it was just people mourning
Running, hiding, lost
Couldn’t find, find a place
to go, so it’s

Red skies at night
Red skies at night
Woh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh

Should have taken warning
it was just people mourning
Running, hiding, lost
Couldn’t find, find a place
to go, so it’s

Red skies at night
Red skies at night
Woh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh

(repeat)

Someone’s taking over
And it look like they’re
aiming right at you and me
Someone said we’ll be dead by morning
Someone cries leaving, so it’s

Red skies at night
Red skies at night
Woh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh

(instrumental)

(Red skies at night...)

Red skies at night

Red skies at night
Red skies at night
Woh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[SamAdams76]

In the Nicolas Cage movie, the entire earth is burned to a crisp and certain children (and bunny rabbits) are chosen to take the Alien Shuttle to some new Garden of Eden in a different solar system. Or something like that. It was a strange movie and I only saw it because I live right down the road from the MIT observatory that was featured in it.

Anyway, I'm not that worried. Whatever happens, happens.

[RobRoy]

>>As long as it’s properly grounded but what is the ground reference in this scenario, Earth?<<

Only because it is closer than Mars.

[domeika]

 The World ends In 2012

[RobRoy]

What I want to know, and I am sure it is on everyone’s minds, is, will dogs and cats be sleeping together?

[null and void]

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Ugh!

[redhead]

Oh, I LOVE all the “MEGA-DISASTER” shows on Science and History channels. If you ever want to wallow in hyperbole and pig out on ‘can,’ ‘might, ‘may,’ and ‘could,’ those are the shows for you. But they are still fun to watch. As for this, I guess it’s pretty good that they have narrowed the window to three years. I’ll be watching, wallowing, and pigging until the last second, to be sure.

[ssaftler]

In the Nicolas Cage movie, the entire earth is burned to a crisp and certain children (and bunny rabbits) are chosen to take the Alien Shuttle to some new Garden of Eden in a different solar system.

We saw it because there was nothing else worth seeing that day, and most of the group like Nicholas Cage anyhow.

Having grown up in the Boston area, I thought it was funny seeing Logan Airport moved roughly to where Hanscom Field is, but I guess an airplane crashing into Massachusetts Bay (which has happened once or twice) wouldn't be as dramatic as having it drop down in a field to the west of Route 128 (er, I-95).

[ckilmer]

right now the big worry is that the sun is not getting off the solar minimum—so the top of the 11 year solar cycle keeps getting pushed forward. Solar maximum now a couple years past 2012.

[ApplegateRanch]

Toss in a liquiform benzolacious luminarium crystalline infidibulum, and you have a taker!

[ApplegateRanch]

We are in the quietest period of solar activity in over 100 years, and rapidly approaching the territory of the Dalton and Mauder minimums, whcih, btw were characterized by the ‘Little Ice Age’

That's to lull you into complacency.

It is quietly saving up its energy for a single, apocalyptic burst.

Sneaky bugger will pop off while you're asleep, so you won't see it coming.

Green sky at night, Alarmist's delight!

[Fred Nerks]

So can anything be done to prevent an epic disaster? A more robust electricity grid would be a start. And we need new satellites to give warning of what is happening on the Sun. Of course, it may not happen in 2012 - it may not happen in 2023, the year of the next solar maximum. But sooner or later, a re-run of the Carrington event is inevitable. Perhaps it would be wise to start stocking up on some candles.

Candles, check.

[Cincinna]

Another scare yourself to death for nothing story, but I loved your comment.

[bannie]

Some things you just can’t worry about.

[ApplegateRanch]

100,000 Europeans have died of starvation. The dead go unburied

All that meat, and no potatoes!

‘Cept for me, of course; lots of taters here.

ALL THAT MEAT AND NO POTATOES
(Ed Kirkeby / Fats Waller)

Fats Waller, His Rhythm & Orch. - 1941
Will Bradley & His Orch. (vocal: Ray McKinley) - 1941
Bon Bon & His Buddies - 1941
Louis Armstrong (vocals: Louis Armstrong & Velma Middleton) - 1955
Papa Blue's Viking Jazz Band (vocal: Gustav Winkler) - 1977

Also recorded by:
Joe Turner; Lytle & Flourno; Les Brown & His Orch.

All that meat, and no potatoes
Just ain't right, like green tomatoes
Yeah, I'm waiting
Palpatatin’
But all that meat, and no potatoes

All that meat, and no potatoes
All that food, to the alligators, yeah
Hold me steady
I am ready
With all that meat and no potatoes

I don't think that peas are bad
With me, most anything goes
I look in the pot, I'm fit to fight
‘Cause woman, you know that mess ain't right.

All that meat, and no potatoes
Just ain't right, like green tomatoes
Yes, I'm steamin’
I'm really screamin’
All that meat and no potatoes.

(Where's my fine hambone?!? Where is it?!?)

Even have fresh garlic bulbs to hide the smell of the rotting corpses.

[ApplegateRanch]

Crud! I cut off the intro!

A man works hard then comes on home,
Expects to find stew with that fine ham bone.
He opens the door, then start to lookin’,
Says, “Woman, what's this stuff you're cookin’?”

All that meat and no potatoes
Just ain't right, like green tomatoes.
Here I'm waiting, palpitatin’,
For all that meat and no potatoes.

etcetera, etcetera, etcetera!

[SunkenCiv]

That was an error most gravy.

[SunkenCiv]

A 50 pound bag of rice, fuel to cook it, and of course, a big book of rice recipes.