Overdue for major solar storm

aligator_am

Ahoy,

Apparently Earth is overdue for a massive Solar storm which will demolish all electronics on Earth, just wondering if anyone here has basically camping gear at the ready in case this happens?

What would the majority of us do if there was a total power out? How many of us have candles and matches?

Kinda scary when this thing is apparently incoming, and by all accounts will demolish all electronics bar those left in a Faraday cage

Do you have the knowledge to light a fire etc. if this madness goes down?

scudzilla

Sure it wouldn't be much of a difference for the citizens of Cork

marshbaboon

aligator_am wrote: »

Do you have the knowledge to light a fire etc. if this madness goes down?

Plenty of petrol and stray dogs around my area.

The Backwards Man

Us culchies will survive and conquer. In a nuclear apocalypse type situation, we have the skills to dominate.

Fcuk you, fancy citypeople.

Muahahahahaha.

darlett

I'll just google the answer.

I have a dongle I can use with my laptop while the battery lasts so it'll be grand like.

seven_eleven

"overdue". This phrase is thrown around about everything and its bollocks.

IM0

Im fine, I have my tinfoil hat force field

The Backwards Man

darlett wrote: »

I'll just google the answer.

I have a dongle I can use with my laptop while the battery lasts so it'll be grand like.

What's good will the dongle be if you have nothing for it toconnect with?

the groutch

someone's spent too much time watching Revolution

Padkir

aligator_am wrote: »

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Do you have the knowledge to light a fire etc. if this madness goes down?

I'm no scientist, but I reckon matches will still work...

KeithM89

seven_eleven wrote: »

"overdue". This phrase is thrown around about everything and its bollocks.

Exactly. Just like my gfs period.



Oh shit....

Sciprio

It would be nice to actually see the center of our galaxy and stars a lot clearer without city lights so there's a positive!

shruikan2553

Im not sure if I would have no hopes of a job after all electronics are destroyed or if it would be a golden age for people who can rebuild them.

If it is the second I'll live like a king with a jurassic park style fence around my house to keep out the lesser fire wielding people.

I have a backlit keyboard, which should keep me going for a couple of hours.

darlett

The Backwards Man wrote: »

What's good will the dongle be if you have nothing for it toconnect with?

It'll be ok. I ll use the USB port on the laptop. Theres three of them so even if I'm watching a movie on a hard drive no problemo.

Grand Moff Tarkin

scudzilla wrote: »

Sure it wouldn't be much of a difference for the citizens of Cork

We would survive and prosper while the rest of the country has to fall back on cannibalism.

Artful_Badger

Its about as worrying as getting killed by a pigeon that got a heart attack and fell out of the sky. Could happen but its not gonna happen, so I wont be wearing a hard hat.

aligator_am

seven_eleven wrote: »

"overdue". This phrase is thrown around about everything and its bollocks.

Well I'm only going by what I've read, apparently this solar storm is supposed to happen every 100 years or so but hasn't happened since back in the 1850s I think, AFAIK it took out the entire telegraph system at the time, so fook knows what it would do nowadays if it blasted us.

PirateShampoo

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Us culchies will survive and conquer. In a nuclear apocalypse type situation, we have the skills to dominate.

Fcuk you, fancy citypeople.

Muahahahahaha.

I suppose when you've reached your level of inbreed mutation nothing short of a Super Nova would be required to wipe you out.


Well either that or Bath Day.

twowheelsonly

I'm sorry...I don't know what a solar storm is..

















(I know what a tracker mortgage is though if that helps!)

Artful_Badger

the groutch wrote: »

someone's spent too much time watching Revolution

Anyone who watches it is spending too much time watching it. Its absolutely shít.

candy-gal1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjQZNAfxaTw

krudler

I'd actually love to experience some catastophe, or a zombie outbreak. I've seen enough movies to know I'd do ok I reckon.

General General

Russia Today had a pr!ck on regularly who went on about 2012 (or was it 2011) as being the year, using calculations & sh!t that could pin-point the date.

Russia Today also had pr!cks on regularly that said George W. Bush would find a way of calling off the 2008 US presidential elections, declaring an emergency government, pr!cks on regularly that assured us that silver was going to sky rocket in value ($100 per ounce was a low estimate) in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.., the Amero was a sure thing by 2010... etc. etc. etc.

The Backwards Man

PirateShampoo wrote: »

I suppose when you've reached your level of inbreed mutation nothing short of a Super Nova would be required to wipe you out.


Well either that or Bath Day.

Na, we all have cheap petrol generators left over from the boom:)

We ain't as slow as the way we walk.

Rayne Wooney

krudler wrote: »

I'd actually love to experience some catastophe, or a zombie outbreak. I've seen enough movies to know I'd do ok I reckon.

Do you even prep bro?



:pac:

aligator_am

the groutch wrote: »

someone's spent too much time watching Revolution

Er, wasn't the premise of that show that trillions of nanobots are stopping the electricity, but seemingly the solar storm is very similar to the EMP effect of a nuke, basically demolishes the majority of electronic devices.

Hopefully it won't do that

Artful_Badger

krudler wrote: »

I'd actually love to experience some catastophe, or a zombie outbreak. I've seen enough movies to know I'd do ok I reckon.

Yeah but in reality with all food rotting and bodies decomposing everyone would die of disease after about a year whether or not ya knew what ya were doing.

WoollyRedHat

When does this solar thingy happen?

wil

darlett wrote: »

It'll be ok. I ll use the USB port on the laptop. Theres three of them so even if I'm watching a movie on a hard drive no problemo.

Aaaaaaah Zombie Laptop:eek:

SouthTippBass

Artful_Badger wrote: »

Yeah but in reality with all food rotting and bodies decomposing everyone would die of disease after about a year whether or not ya knew what ya were doing.

Ah, why would food and bodies be rotting everywhere? Or am I missing something here?

RiverOfLove

Will my nintendo ds work after this solar storm?
How about my tv?
Playstastion?
Ipod?

darlett

wil wrote: »

Aaaaaaah Zombie Laptop:eek:

Get away out of that. My laptops one of them new eco-friendly wind-up versions

shruikan2553

Also, wouldnt it only damage electronics which have electricity going through them at the time?

Cee-Jay-Cee

Gathering twigs and dry wood as we speak. Bring it on!

kraggy

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

When does this solar thingy happen?

Usually on a Sunday.

wil

SouthTippBass wrote: »

Ah, why would food and bodies be rotting everywhere? Or am I missing something here?

Well in theory the EMR would be so great it would interfere or potentially destroy all electronic devices which pretty much control everything these days. Probably the only car you could drive would be a 1945 Morris Minor and everybody wouldn't fit in, so the marauding crowds after living off defrosted burgers for a week would be roaming the streets looking for an ice cream van in a Faraday cage,
I mean haven't you seen that Nicholas Cage movie where the rays left him so deranged he hasn't made a sane movie since.

SouthTippBass

wil wrote: »

Well in theory the EMR would be so great it would interfere or potentially destroy all electronic devices which pretty much control everything these days. Probably the only car you could drive would be a 1945 Morris Minor and everybody wouldn't fit in, so the marauding crowds after living off defrosted burgers for a week would be roaming the streets looking for an ice cream van in a Faraday cage,
I mean haven't you seen that Nicholas Cage movie where the rays left him so deranged he hasn't made a sane movie since.

But surely we'd figure it out, I mean, wouldnt we be provided with rations and such? Would society break down so fast? It'l be grand I'm sure.

Also, are you suggesting that at some point in time there was a sane N.Cage movie?

Reamer Fanny

Ah sure it will be grand

Crooked Jack

I have camping gear at the ready OP but only because i STILL havent taken all the stuff out of the back of the car from my camping trip last summer. coming on a full year now.

Doop

we all got millennium candles in 2000! (by free i mean we paid for them)
between that and the expired nuclear fallout tablets we be grand

wil

SouthTippBass wrote: »

But surely we'd figure it out, I mean, wouldnt we be provided with rations and such? Would society break down so fast? It'l be grand I'm sure.

Also, are you suggesting that at some point in time there was a sane N.Cage movie?

I'm sure the mods have some sort of backup plan ready to roll, perhaps a semaphore based AH forum. There will be a sticky on it soon.

Or maybe it's too late with those rays getting stronger, the evidence being I haven't made a sane post in ages:D

SouthTippBass

Ok, so I think we all agree then that it'l be grand

Nemeses

Lads, I think its already happening .. LOOK OUTSIDE..

The Backwards Man

Nemeses wrote: »

Lads, I think its already happening .. LOOK OUTSIDE..

I am outside. . .

Corkfeen

I've played Fallout and have tons of books that I've been meaning to read. I genuinely think I'd get on fine...

Super-Rush

If only they'd made a film about this.

jobeenfitz

Calm down people, God just appeared to me and said it's not gonna happen.
Phew, panic over. It's just chicken licken up to his "sky falling" crap again.

Pushtrak

twowheelsonly wrote: »

I'm sorry...I don't know what a solar storm is..

(I know what a tracker mortgage is though if that helps!)

When you find out about google, it can be one of the first things you look up.

mossy95

Super-Rush wrote: »

If only they'd made a film about this.

The last Assassin creed was kinda on about it

Jericho.

Be great, no work for a while I'd say.