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Understanding just how big solar flares can get
FreeThink ^ | May 28, 2023 | By Christopher Crockett

Posted on 05/31/2023 5:24:23 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 05/31/2023 5:24:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; SuperLuminal

“Knowing” Ping...................


2 posted on 05/31/2023 5:25:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
I'm classifying this under "scare" news--it gives us something else to worry about, something for which there is absolutely nothing we can do about it. We are powerless when it comes to these kinds of things. Eventually, the sun will go supernova in a billion years and everything on Earth will vanish.

Just a matter of time before a John Kerry or Al Gore try to make political hay (and money) off this--insisting that we need to give up something that might be causing it.

3 posted on 05/31/2023 5:38:53 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: Red Badger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowing_(film)


4 posted on 05/31/2023 5:40:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
For those who haven't seen it, I highly recommend (with a caveat) you watch this excellent and well done documentary: "Grid Down-Power Up" narrated by Dennis Quaid

(Dennis Quaid is apparently "one of us")

The caveat is, that once you watch it, you are going to end up having in the back of your mind what a fragile electronically based existence we all live, and that it could all be taken down by a natural event unless we prepare (which we won't)

Kind of like a lifelong Californian who lives on the San Andreas Fault. You know it is going to happen some day, the big one. It is a natural event. It is inevitable. But perhaps you will be dead already when it happens, and anyway, you have to get over to the Walmart to buy some more grass seed for your yard...

5 posted on 05/31/2023 5:41:11 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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A Carrington Event or even bigger, like the one mentioned in 775 AD, would definitely put us all back to 1800 or so.

No computers, except the ones protected well underground and shielded, no satellites, no internet, no electrical power grid..............................


6 posted on 05/31/2023 5:45:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Lou L; Red Badger

I have to disagree. There IS something we can do about it, is isn’t just a scare. Watch the documentary I linked above.

He isn’t talking necessarily about a supernova which we obviously can’t do anything about, and there is no point in worrying about that.

He is talking about EMP, either man caused (by war or terrorism) or a natural event such as the Carrington Event (1859) and those things, we CAN do something about.

As I said in my post, there is something we can do to protect against EMP, and it is small money (relatively speaking) but knowing human nature (and politicians) as I do...we probably won’t.

And EMP from war or terrorism or a natural event IS far, Far, FAR more of a danger to us than idiotic “climate change”. It isn’t even close. Not even the same universe, because EMP is a fact, and idiotic climate change is a hoax.


7 posted on 05/31/2023 5:48:07 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: rlmorel

Tubes, predecessor to transistors, are impervious to EMP.

Semiconductors can be shielded from EMP and radiation, but only with Lead and Beryllium Oxide, a nasty substance.

Power generators can be protected but would have to be shielded and not in use when the event occurs.

Yes, we could protect our equipment from such an event, but unless the politicians, like the Bidens and Clintons, can make some grift from it it won’t happen............


8 posted on 05/31/2023 5:55:19 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Yes. I have thought a great deal about this.

We are in not necessarily in danger of losing all the knowledge humans have accumulated during our time on this planet because, unless all libraries get burned to the ground when it happens to an unprepared world that goes into an orgy of violence when EVERYTHING we depend on in our daily lives is taken away in one fell swoop, we will still have some way, somehow to access that knowledge.

What we are in danger of is destroying ourselves in that orgy of violence, crime, starvation, deprivation, and nearly 100% guaranteed, war.

And burning down our depositories of knowledge in the process.

Thing is-most people-even highly educated people-absolutely do not realize the razor’s edge we live on, being so dependent on electricity for EVERYTHING.

Everything. No running water. No food. No transportation. No communication. Nothing is exempt.

If we had a Carrington Event today...I don’t want to see it. We are so mentally unprepared for that.


9 posted on 05/31/2023 5:55:27 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: rlmorel

Not to mention the effects on people and animals.
Cancers would be rampant................


10 posted on 05/31/2023 5:57:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

If, as some measurements indicate, the earth’s magnetic field is weakening, it will not take an event nearly the size of a Carrington to produce a similar degree of disruption.

See Ben Davidson’s site called “Suspicious Observers” for a more complete explanation.


11 posted on 05/31/2023 5:58:56 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: Red Badger

Exactly. It CAN be done, we CAN protect against it (the military does it with its hardware and has been for years) but we should be using idiotic “climate change” money being thrown by the bucketful into the pockets of grifters and charlatans at all levels to implement EMP protection instead of climate change stupidity.

What is astonishing to me is the knowledge that the world has hundreds of millions of people who would be spittle-lipped in outrage if they read my previous paragraph.


12 posted on 05/31/2023 5:59:14 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: rlmorel

Coronal mass ejections would not be occurring if it were not for our destructive global climate change. And racism.


13 posted on 05/31/2023 5:59:39 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: Red Badger

Like I care. The FBI tried to pull a coup d’etat on Trump and I should give a sh!t about this?


14 posted on 05/31/2023 5:59:43 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Red Badger; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; ...
Thanks Red Badger. The climate is 100% natural, 100% of the time.



15 posted on 05/31/2023 6:00:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Just imagine, waking up one morning in 2023, and by bedtime, you are in 1823......................


16 posted on 05/31/2023 6:03:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

And white privileges and white supremacy and guns and MAGA hats.......................


17 posted on 05/31/2023 6:04:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: central_va

“The FBI tried to pull a coup d’etat on Trump”

The effbeeye didn’t “try” to pull a coup on Trump. They actually did it.


18 posted on 05/31/2023 6:04:59 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Joe Biden is to elections as Lance Armstrong is to cycling.)
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To: Red Badger

The only remedy is to ban all SUVs STAT!


19 posted on 05/31/2023 6:11:41 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: Lou L
Just a matter of time before a John Kerry or Al Gore try to make political hay (and money) off this--insisting that we need to give up something that might be causing it.

Obviously, solar eruptions are man-caused. The only solution is global communism. More specifically, we are being mean to Mother Gaia and the Sun gets upset. If we don’t stop being mean with all this capitalism stuff, the Sun will get very angry. The Sun is somewhat patient. Another 12 years of meanness to Mother Gaia and the Sun will lose its patience and destroy all mankind. We have to institute one world government and ban all meanness.

20 posted on 05/31/2023 6:15:20 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?s" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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