Overdue for major solar storm

aligator_am · 02-07-2013 12:12AM #1

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 · 02-07-2013 12:13AM

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

marshbaboon · 02-07-2013 12:15AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:16AM

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

Fcuk you, fancy citypeople.

Muahahahahaha.

darlett · 02-07-2013 12:16AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:17AM

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

IM0 · 02-07-2013 12:18AM

Im fine, I have my tinfoil hat force field

The Backwards Man · 02-07-2013 12:18AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:18AM

someone's spent too much time watching Revolution

Padkir · 02-07-2013 12:18AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:18AM

seven_eleven wrote: »

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

Exactly. Just like my gfs period.

Oh shit....

Sciprio · 02-07-2013 12:19AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:20AM

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.

02-07-2013 12:21AM

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

darlett · 02-07-2013 12:21AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:22AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:22AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:22AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:23AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:23AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:23AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:24AM

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

krudler · 02-07-2013 12:24AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:26AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:27AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:27AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:28AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:28AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:32AM

When does this solar thingy happen?

wil · 02-07-2013 12:36AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:36AM

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?

Overdue for major solar storm

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