Scientists Warn Of Catastrophic Solar Storms Approaching 2012 - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 06, 2010, 10:09:41 pm
content: http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/6657707-scientists-warn-of-catastrophic-solar-storms-approaching-2012Do you believe it ?

author: tyblu
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 06, 2010, 11:12:55 pm
content: No. Another case of the media trying to make a big deal out of speculation.<edit> Here's where it comes from:http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/04jun_swef/http://www.nswp.gov/swef/swef_2010.html

author: saturation
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 06, 2010, 11:24:25 pm
content: Yes, its been anticipated for some time, so far so good. But even then, I personally can't do anything about it.http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/10mar_stormwarning/You can watch the solar monitors looking for it:http://www.n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html

author: Time
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 07, 2010, 12:00:36 am
content: they made a movie about it... called... 2012

author: ArtemisGoldfish
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 07, 2010, 01:49:23 am
content: As massive as the solar storm might end up being, our ionosphere will protect us from it. It has in the past, it will keep doing it.

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 07, 2010, 02:16:25 am
content: Quote from: ArtemisGoldfish on December 07, 2010, 01:49:23 ambut we keep destroying it.

author: kaptain_zero
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 07, 2010, 02:39:52 am
content: Quote from: shafri on December 07, 2010, 02:16:25 amActually, we're destroying the ozone layer, which exists mainly in the lower part of the stratosphere which reaches from about 13km to 40km. The ionosphere (near and dear to an amateur radio operators heart) exists above 80km within the thermosphere. As far as I know, it's still pretty safe.RegardsChristian aka ..._ . ...._ ... . _

author: tinhead
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 07, 2010, 03:03:41 am
content: honetsly only "western civilization" have to care about, for ppl in e.g. Afganistan it didn't matter, they not dependent on all those nice "technologic things" (as long the solar storm will not "blow away the ionosphere").On the other side there is nothing we can do against (except you have very deep underground atom shelter with autonomic live support).

author: Time
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 07, 2010, 03:19:08 am
content: The earths magnetosphere is probably the more dominant protective mechanism. It unfortunately does not protect against neutral particles likes neutrons, neutrinos, and other types of cosmic rays.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 07, 2010, 03:37:11 am
content: Yes, it's been known for quite some time, it is cyclic.It's just a matter of how bad (or not so bad) it will be.Blame the Mayan's!Dave.

author: the_raptor
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 07, 2010, 07:19:35 am
content: Quote from: ArtemisGoldfish on December 07, 2010, 01:49:23 amPity how our satellites don't have as good protection. You know the ones which are essential to modern society?Also there have been geomagnetic storms before that could take out power grids let alone computers. And as they are rare on a human time scale our infrastructure is not built to deal with them.If we get an extra high sustained solar peak we will be kicked back to the 1950's at best.I use this as my excuse to get into ham radio and learn Morse code.

author: RayJones
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 07, 2010, 08:33:42 am
content: Run Chicken Little, the sky's falling in

author: the_raptor
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 07, 2010, 10:13:05 am
content: Quote from: RayJones on December 07, 2010, 08:33:42 amNope, I will just have a useful skill in the event we get bad a bad solar weather sometime in the future or some genius lets off a high altitude nuclear bomb*.There is a difference between being frightened and preparing for a statistically likely event.* Or hell these until the Government out of fear of pedos/terrorists/wikileaks regulates the Internet to the point where we will need relatively unmonitored channels.

author: Neilm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 07, 2010, 06:42:05 pm
content: Quote from: tinhead on December 07, 2010, 03:03:41 amThe troops there will notice it - every thing they have depends on GPS etc. If the satellites get knocked out they will have to go back to reading maps.Neil

author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 08, 2010, 07:35:21 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on December 07, 2010, 03:37:11 amDoes the Fluke warranty cover such damages ?

author: tinhead
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 08, 2010, 11:21:54 pm
content: Quote from: Neilm on December 07, 2010, 06:42:05 pmyeah, but only if they still can read maps, which i doubt.

author: SG-1
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 11, 2010, 07:39:33 am
content: As I recall the worse solar storm that hit in modern times ( late 1800s ), was during a solar minimum. People could read a newspaper at night in Atlanta, Georga, USA. It set a few telegraph offices on fire.