Sun storm to hit Earth with 'force of 100 bombs'

RobitTV · 21-09-2010 06:43PM

Hes a doucmentary about it Click here

Terry · 21-09-2010 06:44PM

RobitTV wrote: »

The 2012 storm has the potential to be even more disruptive Then the one back in 1859 and 1921

Two grammatical errors in one word.
Quality journalism there.

I'm getting a bit tired of all these ****ing scaremongers. It's reaching a point where a journalist will cry wolf and nobody will listen.

msg11 · 21-09-2010 06:47PM

Will people have a flash foward is the question, and will it happen again ?

TimeToShine · 21-09-2010 06:50PM

EMP OUR ELECTRONICS ARE DOWN!

TimeToShine · 21-09-2010 06:52PM

Looks like the Sun is building up a 15 kill streak.

Subtle Troll · 21-09-2010 06:56PM

I call bollox on this, bollox bollox bollox.

****s sake lads, the sun IS a hydrogen bomb constantly exploding, this 100 bombs ****e they are on about is a piece of piss, and even if it did break my computer Id go down the the sony shop and buy a new one with my paper euros.

And the banks can go ****e, their records being wiped means johny tax payer dont owe them 50 grand each cuz a the dip****s that gave them our money.

People gotta stop readin this ****e there are proper papers out there ye can read without tits in them and mystic meg.

Grimreaper666 · 21-09-2010 07:02PM

Just add it to NAMA and we can pay it off in another 80 or 90 years, don't worry folks, it will be alright in the end...........

Copper23 · 21-09-2010 07:03PM

Another wild end of the world load of crap.

If NASA are watching it since 2006 and it's gonna wipe us all out I'm sure they'd have made a slightly bigger deal about it before now that I'd only find out a few days before through AH.

lintdrummer · 21-09-2010 07:09PM

Source or gtfo op!

Seriously though, this is a load of me balls.

Also this...

They claim satellites will be aged by 50 years, rendering GPS even more useless than ever

...suggests to me that the article was written by an old fart that can't get his garmin to find his house.

kraggy · 21-09-2010 07:22PM

NASA are just scaremongering to take the heat off Cowen.

-Trek- · 21-09-2010 07:29PM

:eek::eek::eek: If the internet goes down what will become of us nerds???? Will we become extinct??? :eek: :eek: :eek:

Sofiztikated · 21-09-2010 07:29PM

storm2811 wrote: »

Fcuks up the earth's magnetic field I think.
Might be wrong though.

Edit: See above!

Biggins wrote: »

Its related to ElectroMagnetic Pulse (EMP) and is a huge topic in itself.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse

Gotcha, space Nazis. Even when it was the Sun sending out an EMP, I knew it was the space Nazis.

Bucklesman · 21-09-2010 07:35PM

It's actually a credible enough threat given that geomagnetic storms have knocked out electrical infrastructure in the past.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1989_geomagnetic_storm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1859_solar_superstorm

The danger is from the change in the earth's magnetic field caused by the storm inducing a current in electrical transmission lines. This surge could damage transformers and such.

Since these things are pretty hard to manufacture without electricity, there is a danger of widespread long-term power outages.

storm2811 · 21-09-2010 07:49PM

We had a pretty big solar flare back in August didn't we?
Though this one might be bigger I suppose, we'll have to wait and see what kind of damage it'll do!

Poly · 21-09-2010 07:52PM

hopefully it will happen at night time.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero · 21-09-2010 07:54PM

Anyone else really hopes this happens??

JONJO THE MISER · 21-09-2010 07:59PM

:eek:

galwayrush · 21-09-2010 07:59PM

THFC wrote: »

Anyone else really hopes this happens??

Not a severe one, it could knock off our electrical supply for 10 - 12 years, and totally **** up all aspects of electronic media for longer.

Voltex · 21-09-2010 08:01PM

if the EMP knocks out George Hook on Newtalk and his ads for SKY...well its a win win situation! Bring it on!!

JONJO THE MISER · 21-09-2010 08:04PM

galwayrush wrote: »

Not a severe one, it could knock off our electrical supply for 10 - 12 years, and totally **** up all aspects of electronic media for longer.

If it happened my god life would not be worth living, my esb was out for 10 hours a few months ago and i had the sweats after it.

RobitTV · 21-09-2010 08:06PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/9020059.stm This story is actully true! about all the solar stuff!

Royal Irish · 21-09-2010 08:09PM

I think it would be great. We all go back to the olden days, having to grow our own food and barter down the local market for anything else. Hopefully it will put an end to all this feminism and we can trade women for camels again.

galwayrush · 21-09-2010 08:10PM

RobitTV wrote: »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/9020059.stm This story is actully true! about all the solar stuff!

Good friend of mine ,Stuart Clark , author of The Sun Kings is on that.:cool:

Sofiztikated · 21-09-2010 08:15PM

Royal Irish wrote: »

I think it would be great. We all go back to the olden days, having to grow our own food and barter down the local market for anything else. Hopefully it will put an end to all this feminism and we can trade women for camels again.

I doubt you'd have many people you would trade your wimminz for camels with. Ireland isn't really known for its camel reserves.

Fluorescence · 21-09-2010 08:31PM

I don't doubt that this is a very real, potential threat (seems quite likely too). My question is, if this has been predicted since 2006, why hasn't action yet been taken to minimise the damage? There must be some way we can prevent a complete wipe-out of out systems (perhaps finding a new system - though that could take more time than we have).

It would be interesting to see how we fare without technology. It seems we're so dependent on it nowadays that life without it is almost incomprehensible.

Seaneh · 21-09-2010 08:38PM

If you're really worried, start growing some veggies and keeping a few chickens. buy a fishing rod and learn to fish. buy a riffle and learn how to hit bunnies, buy a shot gun and learn how to hit birds. you can easily survive without supermarkets.

Arquinsiel · 21-09-2010 08:53PM

Sofiztikated wrote: »

I doubt you'd have many people you would trade your wimminz for camels with. Ireland isn't really known for its camel reserves.

He means the cigarettes.

BrokenArrows · 21-09-2010 08:58PM

Oh is it just me or is this a relatively simple solution.

The sun will blast us.
EMP only effects things which are currently running an electric current.

The blast can be predicted because the suns ejections are not instant. We will see it coming.

World wide announcement to shutdown all electricity supplies and generators.
No current flowing. Nothing gets popped.

Not perfect as some things just cant be shutdown but nothing as sever as taking 50 years to recover.

ilovesleep · 21-09-2010 09:28PM

This really isn't good news if its due to happen. I want to retire early, like now. No fcuking way do i want to get up at fcuk early o clock and work every day until the last day in 2012.

ItsAWindUp · 21-09-2010 09:31PM

Anyone else terrified at the idea of this happening?

Sun storm to hit Earth with 'force of 100 bombs'

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