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TECH BLACKOUT: Huge Solar Storm Which Could WIPE OUT Modern Technology Expected by 2020
Express (U.K.) ^
| Wed, Nov 30, 2016
| Sean Martin
Posted on 12/01/2016 10:12:44 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
hate to lose FR, but in the main, we should be so lucky. /s
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posted on
12/01/2016 10:14:30 PM PST
by
txnativegop
(Hey! Libturds! You got Trumped!)
To: nickcarraway
Well... keep me in the loop on this one.
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posted on
12/01/2016 10:14:32 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
([VOTE FRAUD] == [CIVIL WAR])
To: Steely Tom
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posted on
12/01/2016 10:15:49 PM PST
by
txnativegop
(Hey! Libturds! You got Trumped!)
To: nickcarraway
Might get a 2-fer if Hillary is holding her blackberrry
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posted on
12/01/2016 10:15:58 PM PST
by
stylin19a
(obama = Fredo smart)
To: stylin19a
only if it happens in the next 12 to 18 months or so, she’ll be gone after that.
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posted on
12/01/2016 10:17:33 PM PST
by
txnativegop
(Hey! Libturds! You got Trumped!)
To: nickcarraway
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??!
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posted on
12/01/2016 10:20:14 PM PST
by
Exeter
To: nickcarraway
Or not.
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posted on
12/01/2016 10:27:10 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
To: nickcarraway
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.
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posted on
12/01/2016 10:38:41 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(" T'was the witch of November come stealin' " And who could the stealing Witch of November be? Hmm?)
To: Exeter
Y2K would have been pretty bad if we had done nothing. With years of prep and work, the risk was mitigated away to minimal impact.
What are we doing to mitigate THIS risk???
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posted on
12/01/2016 10:40:21 PM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: nickcarraway
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?
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posted on
12/01/2016 10:41:59 PM PST
by
Slip18
(Pickles got pickled!)
To: nickcarraway
This will be awesome for my mobile phone charger that uses a solar panel.
To: nickcarraway
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!” ;)
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posted on
12/01/2016 10:45:25 PM PST
by
calenel
(The Democratic Party is a Criminal Enterprise. It is the Socialist Mafia.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
12/01/2016 10:45:53 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: nickcarraway
I will make a fortune on my vacume tube cell phones
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posted on
12/01/2016 10:46:21 PM PST
by
Organic Panic
(Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
To: 2banana
What are we doing to mitigate THIS risk??? Building a wall.
To: nickcarraway
Same global warming scientists?
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posted on
12/01/2016 10:47:58 PM PST
by
stocksthatgoup
(MSM = HOME OF FAKE News)
To: Read Write Repeat
I have one of those, too! I also have a hand crank charger. Cool!
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posted on
12/01/2016 10:48:13 PM PST
by
Slip18
(Pickles got pickled!)
To: nickcarraway
So the price would be...a year of Obama fiat money?
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posted on
12/01/2016 10:49:14 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: nickcarraway
Yeah,and Y2K was going to flatten half the worlds microprocessors too.
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posted on
12/01/2016 10:50:26 PM PST
by
pissant
((Deport 'em all))
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