The Sun Also Flares - If we get hit with a once-in-a-century solar storm, we’re history.

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE ^ | January 28, 2010 | Clifford D. May

[prisoner6]

A rifle, a shotgun and a 4WD and a country boy can survive.

[suthener]

I read it a couple of weeks ago. Very good book. What’s interesting to note is that if we were hit by a solar flare or EMP, would we be much different than the Haitians? Not according to One Second After, and I tend to agree. I’ve tried to start discussions about that on a couple of threads, but no one could get past the mind set that SOMEONE would come to help. It’s funny, but people can’t seem to comprehend a situation where there is, absolutely, no help coming.

[Chances Are]

Your crank radio, your watch, your car all contain microcircuits NOT MilSpec nor shielded against EMP. Plugged into anything or not, turned on or not, PN junctions in microcircuits will be blown open and blown shorted. - Electronics is my life since 1971.

If this is true, then what is the best way to shield these components, if such a thing is possible (and economically feasible)?

CA....

[DNME]

Give this some thought, kiddies ...

If the power goes out for good, the supermarkets will quickly run dry. There is a chance that the EMP/solar event would also knock out the computers in vehicles, so there might not be any resupply trucks rolling. And the refrigerated warehouses will no longer function, so there won’t be any fresh food to deliver in any event.

That means millions of hungry people, real soon, and they’re coming to your country home for lunch. And no ... you DON’T have enough ammunition, no matter how much you’ve got.

[edcoil]

“how fragile this planet is.”

I just don’t believe it is fragile. It has been here billions of years and has uncounted events occur and yet, it is still here, unique to the universe.

[CodeToad]

” PN junctions in microcircuits will be blown open and blown shorted. - Electronics is my life since 1971.”

Then you should know better than to spread such horse manure.

[hdbc]

.....and if my uncle had a uterus, he’d be my aunt.....

Ha ha. My dad used to say, If my grandmother had balls, she’d be my grandfather.

[netmilsmom]

Not according to this

http://www.survival-homestead.com/faraday-cage.html

[BJClinton]

[netmilsmom]

http://www.survival-homestead.com/faraday-cage.html

[suthener]

I read it a couple of weeks ago. Very good book. What’s interesting to note is that if we were hit by a solar flare or EMP, would we be much different than the Haitians? Not according to One Second After, and I tend to agree. I’ve tried to start discussions about that on a couple of threads, but no one could get past the mind set that SOMEONE would come to help. It’s funny, but people can’t seem to comprehend a situation where there is, absolutely, no help coming.

[aruanan]

CO2 is a non-conductive gas so we are increasing our protection each day.

It didn't protect the earth between 10,000-2,000BC. If something like that happened again, virtually every electronic device and electric circuit would be completely fried. See the PDF at Scribd, Characteristics-for-the-Occurrence-of-a-HighCurrent-ZPinch-Aurora-as-Recorded-in-Antiquity. Here is another list of that and related material. You may have to find another way of downloading. I think I can because I'm doing it through my university that has library electronic journal privileges. Here is a .gov site with these and other references that may be more generally accessible.

[TexasRepublic]

“If this is true, then what is the best way to shield these components, if such a thing is possible (and economically feasible)?”

Ferrous metals such as steel block electromagnetism pretty well. I’d bet if you stored your electronic devices inside a steel burglar safe, they would survive. If THAT doesn’t work, then we ARE screwed.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Obvioously, the sarcasm of “Praise Gore!” was lost in transmission.

[aruanan]

See my links above. Even if you could protect some electronics in a Faraday cage, it wouldn’t do you any good in the long run when over 99.9999999999% of the rest of the world’s electronic circuits, and everything that depends on them, are burned out.

[MaxMax]

So America is more vunerable than third world countries,
America is bad. Got it.

[netmilsmom]

My walkie talkies, and flashlights would do us well.

[aruanan]

Obvioously, the sarcasm of “Praise Gore!” was lost in transmission.

Of course not. But this was a good opportunity to post these links to the Peratt papers on the Z-pinch aurora.

[RipSawyer]

Nothing to worry about, at his acceptance speech in Denver the anointed one told us that he will defeat poverty, disease and climate change. Working in a defeat for a little old solar storm should be a snap for him. He could do that with one hand while lowering the seas with the other.

[al baby]

I am making tin foil cozyies for all my electronis and stuff