Overdue for major solar storm

RiverOfLove · 02-07-2013 12:41AM

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

darlett · 02-07-2013 12:41AM

wil wrote: »

Aaaaaaah Zombie Laptop:eek:

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

shruikan2553 · 02-07-2013 12:44AM

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

Cee-Jay-Cee · 02-07-2013 12:46AM

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

kraggy · 02-07-2013 12:46AM

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

When does this solar thingy happen?

Usually on a Sunday.

wil · 02-07-2013 12:48AM

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 · 02-07-2013 12:57AM

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 · 02-07-2013 01:00AM

Ah sure it will be grand

Crooked Jack · 02-07-2013 01:06AM

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 · 02-07-2013 01:07AM

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 · 02-07-2013 01:08AM

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 · 02-07-2013 01:18AM

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

Nemeses · 02-07-2013 01:20AM

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

The Backwards Man · 02-07-2013 01:23AM

Nemeses wrote: »

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

I am outside. . .

Corkfeen · 02-07-2013 01:24AM

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 · 02-07-2013 01:26AM

If only they'd made a film about this.

jobeenfitz · 02-07-2013 01:31AM

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 · 02-07-2013 01:45AM

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 · 02-07-2013 02:03AM

Super-Rush wrote: »

If only they'd made a film about this.

The last Assassin creed was kinda on about it

Jericho. · 02-07-2013 02:09AM

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

Reamer Fanny · 02-07-2013 02:12AM

Corkfeen wrote: »

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

Yes nothing like a post-apocalyptic video game to prepare you for survival of the fittest.

Nemeses · 02-07-2013 02:17AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I am outside. . .

Then open yer eyes..

MickFleetwood · 02-07-2013 02:43AM

aligator_am wrote: »

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.

Provide a link, please. Not saying you didn't read it but it's impossible to tell whether it's plausible or not. :pac:

Jonny7 · 02-07-2013 07:35AM

Relevant

The Carrington Event 1859

Sulla Felix · 02-07-2013 07:40AM

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 always thought culchies were cockroaches

CINCLANTFLT · 02-07-2013 01:01PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1uXO-F5jZE

hatrickpatrick · 02-07-2013 01:04PM

Didn't we have a solar maximum last year?
As far as I heard, the reason it didn't cause the widespread destruction that was predicted isn't because the storm wasn't as powerful as expected, but simply because electrical infrastructure has vastly improved over time and is far less susceptible to damage than it was a couple of decades ago when this happened last. I'm open to correction on that, but it makes enough sense?

Bajingo · 02-07-2013 02:04PM

In addition, Baker said, satellite communications—also essential to many daily activities—would be at risk from solar storms.

"Every time you purchase a gallon of gas with your credit card, that's a satellite transaction," he said.

This worried me a little. If the storm was to happen and the worst case happened that all electronic devices were shutdown, would our money be safe. When the grid eventually gets back up and running will our money that exists mostly in digital form still be there?

Nemeses · 02-07-2013 02:35PM

So yeah, Did anyone get the video camera out yet for this or is it all over now?

Overdue for major solar storm

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