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[Dan Gerous]

A couple of solar cycles are reaching their maxes in either late 2012 or in 2013. The last time this happened was in 1859 when telegraph lines were knocked out. Today, it would result in knocking out most all electricity on the planet. Today, everything runs on electricity: communications, water pumps, refrigeration, nuclear cooling pumps, etc., etc. Wide-scale havoc may result with resources being taken over by gangs. And your government is not even addressing the issue. Some estimates are that one billion people will die. Just typical gloom and doom, you say?

This article is from NASA:

Nasa warns solar flares from 'huge space storm' will cause devastation

Exclusive: Britain could face widespread power blackouts and be left without critical communication signals for long periods of time, after the earth is hit by a once-in-a-generation �space storm�, Nasa has warned.

By Andrew Hough
1:00PM BST 14 Jun 2010

National power grids could overheat and air travel severely disrupted while electronic items, navigation devices and major satellites could stop working after the Sun reaches its maximum power in a few years.

Senior space agency scientists believe the Earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of magnetic energy from solar flares after the Sun wakes �from a deep slumber� sometime around 2013, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

In a new warning, Nasa said the super storm would hit like �a bolt of lightning� and could cause catastrophic consequences for the world�s health, emergency services and national security unless precautions are taken.

Scientists believe it could damage everything from emergency services� systems, hospital equipment, banking systems and air traffic control devices, through to �everyday� items such as home computers, iPods and Sat Navs.

Due to humans� heavy reliance on electronic devices, which are sensitive to magnetic energy, the storm could leave a multi-billion pound damage bill and �potentially devastating� problems for governments.

�We know it is coming but we don�t know how bad it is going to be,� Dr Richard Fisher, the director of Nasa's Heliophysics division, said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.

�It will disrupt communication devices such as satellites and car navigations, air travel, the banking system, our computers, everything that is electronic. It will cause major problems for the world.

�Large areas will be without electricity power and to repair that damage will be hard as that takes time.�

Dr Fisher added: �Systems will just not work. The flares change the magnetic field on the earth that is rapid and like a lightning bolt. That is the solar affect...�

[Steelrails]

So the message I take from this is that I need to figure out which company is selling "Solar Flare Compliance Upgrades" a la Y2K and buy stock in them.

[red_devil]

Didn't they make a movie about this?

[Dan Gerous]

Dismiss these warnings if you wish, but this is based on hard science, not Mayan calendar stuff (which may end up being right by pure coincidence). NASA is predicting very severe consequences. Or listen to CUNY professor of nuclear physics Dr. Michio Kaku on this mainstream news report.

[young_clinton]

Awesome, let the fun begin I wonder if Thailand is exempt from this. I better polish up my teaching and Thai language skills.

[schwa]

Conceivable & it would indeed be devastating if some anomalous solar blast suddenly zapped the internet.

Our everyday reliance on it runs deep.

[SeoulFinn]

This post reminded me of Escape from LA, where Snake Plissken (played by Kurt Russell) shuts down the USA with EMPs.

Malloy: For God sakes, don't do it, Snake!
Snake Plissken: The name's Plissken.
[pushes the button]

... and US is back in stone age.

If the solar flames shut down every electric device and circuit on the planet Earth, at least the problem of overpopulation would be solved in no time. There's just too many of us in the world, at least if we keep living like this. And hey, maybe the survivors could be able to build a better world for all of us?

[Dan Gerous]