Posted on 03/27/2009 4:38:36 PM PDT by chessplayer
You could bet that political apparatchiks would get first dibs. The rest of us would be left to the marauders.
I saw that movie when I was a kid......The Day of the Triffids.......salt water killed them......
Signs......fresh water killed them
Congress.....common sense kills them
This article is absolutely right on the money. Those coronal mass ejections COULD cause plasma balls and there is a great amount of magnetic properties. Even 25 years ago this would not have been nearly as devastating but we’re all so reliant on your satellites now and all our technology.
The sun is very interesting to study. Amazing really.
I mean “our” satellites. Not “your.” I am assuming you don’t own any.
And the odds of a Coronal Mass Ejection knocking us back 200 years are far higher than the odds of an asteroid hitting us. Scary how vulnerable our high-tech way of life is.
Now this is something I would`nt mind the govt. spending money on. To try to make our systems less vulnerable to such an event. But libs want to waste money on global warming, instead.
This seems to allude that modern technology will cause solar eruptions. A little less sensationalism is in order I think.
They do. It is the same shielding as is required to thwart a nuclear EMP pulse. It is just a lot more expensive than not doing it.
Well why work on things that are REAL when you can spend all that money on FAKE things. When the stuff is FAKE, then you can just make up how much money it will cost. When it’s real, then you can come up with REAL dollar figures.
Anyway, I’m with you. I’m actually studying all of this right now in Astronomy class - a great class. The math is not easy though. But, just like the little ice age we had here in the 1600’s which was caused by the sun’s cycles - the sun is something we cannot control so if it is hotter or cooler, we will just have to deal with it.
At the risk of being accused of run away optimism, A techno crash would give freedom fighters the opportunity to take the country back. By 2012, taxpayers will be living a stone age existence anyway, this will be a great evener!
I’m going to start stocking up on beanee-weenees now, just in case.
No - they are saying that our way of life is much more vulnerable to such damage.
It would be impossible to shield the entire power grid.
Of course it will probably happen anyway if the "progressives" get their way.
Would that mean no FR?
We’d have to write letters to each other.
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