Scientists warn of $2,000bn solar ‘Katrina’

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

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[steelyourfaith]

Thanx SunkenCiv !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[aruanan]

Scientists warn of $2,000bn solar ‘Katrina’

I think we should be spending money right now to figure out a way to move the earth to a more distant orbit as the sun starts expanding into the red giant phase.

[aruanan]

Scientists warn of $2,000bn solar ‘Katrina’

So I guess we should have been saving all that money wasted on global warming stuff for this more immediate and more acute danger.

[aruanan]

A solar storm starts with an eruption of super-hot gas travelling out from the sun at speeds of up to 5m miles an hour. Electrically charged particles hit earth’s atmosphere 20 to 30 hours later, causing electromagnetic havoc.

So the earth is somewhere between 100 to 150 miles (5m X 20h or 30h) away from the sun?

[decimon]

Instant Gamma’s Gonna Get You

Well we all shine on,
Like the moon and the stars and the sun,
Yeah we all shine on,
On and on and on on and on.

[N3WBI3]

In terms of infrastructure you would be fine but some businesses have systems that need 12 hours or more to properly shut down.

[RFEngineer]

Another $2 Tril? Yeah, well the sun is just going to have to wait until we can fit in a bond offering to cover that.

[muawiyah]

He}} if I know, but you missed the “m” for MILLION. Put that MILLION back in the equation and the answer will make more sense.

[muawiyah]

If you have half an hour and your system will slag out it makes sense to ignore the 12 hour proper shut down and just flip the switch now!

[dljordan]

“I’m ready. Been ready for years. Stupid to not know how to do basic stuff.”

Me too, since the early 90’s. Let’s get it over with.

[Dan(9698)]

I remember that the Nike Missile radars had a 30 minute timer on start-up. Time to warm up everything.

They also had a “battle short” switch that overrode the timer.

The warm-up could be skipped in an emergency.

Computer systems are similar.

It may take time to get them back up, but shut-down isn't fatal.

[Quix]

What was that we were discussing?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Max Blast]

Is this another result of and therefore proof of Global Warming? I expect Al Gore will say so.

[Kickass Conservative]

It's a Super Duper Anti-Stimulus! Sounds like it will have about the same effect as the regular Obama Stimulus.

[RegulatorCountry]

The article makes mention of 20 - 30 hours from the event to impacting affairs here. They’re monitored fairly closely as I understand. Is there some hole in the assumption that it’ll be known with enough advance warning to at least mitigate the effects of power surge?

[COBOL2Java]

Obama: "Quick! The world's circuits are fried - now's our chance!"

[Richard Kimball]

X10!

[SunkenCiv]

Here comes the Sun, do do do do, here comes the Sun, and I say...

[1scrappymom]

Will this then take care of the problem of over population woes in the earlier post? 8 billion with no food?