Friday, July 25, 2014

How a solar storm two years ago nearly caused a catastrophe on Earth

“If it had hit, we would still be picking up the pieces,” physicist Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado tells NASA.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

How odd. Just 4 days ago, in response to a discussion on NSA's digital surveillance state on another blog, I opined that the conversion revolution from analog systems to digital is a folly of biblical proportions. Regardless of it's inherent positives, the 800lb gorilla is just waiting to send us back to the stone age, notwithstanding anarchy within a day, by virtue of just ONE massive coronal mass ejection from the sun.

And then, I saw this article two hours before I came here.
Sooprise sooprise sooprise.

Of course, considering the way things are heading towards Orwell's vision of the future of a jackboot on your face ..forever.. I think it just might be a good equalizer.

Anonymous said...

If anyone took the time to read the article on the CME's and the comments following it, they should
have noticed the references to Dr. William R. Forstchens book, 'One Second After'. The Foreword for it was written by Newt Gingrich.

The scenario of the book begins with an EMP that takes at the power grid in at least North Carolina. It doesn't say or allude to how the EMP was generated, just that there was one.

I would recommend reading this book to everyone !! The possibility of the U.S. being hit by one or more EMPs is a reality.
They could be generated by nuclear tipped missiles launched from cargo ships in the Gulf of Mexico or from submarines off the coasts, and there would be no way to launch counter measures to stop them in time.

I'd also suggest that if you didn't read the article Mike linked to, you make the time to go back and read it and the comments following it. A lot of them you can skip through fast because they're posted by clowns, but there are others that are there made by well informed and intelligent people.

The story in One Second After is a highly plausible scenario and should serve as a real 'wake up call' for a lot of people.

And while you're waking up to how bad a situation such an even would really create, bear in mind that those in our corrupt, tyrannical, traitorous government have spent billions on places and things t protect themselves and their chosen few, and nothing to protect you and yours !!