Galt's Gulch

Upcoming solar flares could wreak havoc on Earth

Posted by $ nickursis 6 years, 12 months ago to Science
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Hmm get the tinfoil hats out... for real accurate information go to

http://www.spaceweather.com/ or

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/

and you can get their aurora predictions. I hope to see it one day.
SOURCE URL: http://nypost.com/2017/04/21/earth-may-experience-blackouts-from-massive-solar-flares/amp/

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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 12 months ago
    The too sunny earth wrecking havoc on high upon us shall be all our fault!
    Al Gore was among the first to call out that we needed to collectively come together in an effort to shut down all fossil fuels and to replace it with windmills and solar panels.
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    The sun will destroy us as global warming morphs into a climate change that shall freeze us and our farm crops all to death.
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  • Posted by $ CBJ 6 years, 12 months ago
    I read that the recent power interruptions in SF, LA and NY may have been related to "space weather." Presumably the rest of the country was protected by tinfoil hats. :-)
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    • Posted by $ nickursis 6 years, 12 months ago
      Solar storms can disrupt electronics, and even damage them, one sure way to protect them is a Faraday Cage, there are many variations of it on the web, the great side effect of having your stuff in a Faraday cage is it also protects you from damage from nuclear explosion EMP....:)
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      • Posted by Dobrien 6 years, 12 months ago
        The storm of 1859—known as the Carrington Event[1]—was a powerful geomagnetic solar storm during solar cycle 10 (1855–1867). A solar coronal mass ejection hit Earth's magnetosphere and induced one of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, September 1–2, 1859. The associated "white light flare" in the solar photosphere was observed and recorded by English astronomers Richard C. Carrington (1826–1875) and Richard Hodgson (1804–1872).

        Studies have shown that a solar storm of this magnitude occurring today would likely cause more widespread problems for a modern and technology-dependent society.[2][3] The solar storm of 2012 was of similar magnitude, but it passed Earth's orbit without striking the planet.[4]
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        • Posted by $ nickursis 6 years, 12 months ago
          I do think that is the standard to measure against and is an argument a lot of people use for hardening the grid and equipment critical for things like water and communications. Maybe they should spend on that and just let the middle east sort itself out...
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      • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 6 years, 12 months ago
        I read the other day that the cheapest and Most effective faraday cage is a metal garbage can with a tight lid...throw in some metal tape for good measure...but your 50" plasma screen TV ain't gona fit! For that or the like, I'd use rabbit cage wire, (1/4" openings) and hope for the best. However...that's assuming your prepared and get advanced notice. The best nasa can do is 1 hour...but good luck with that advanced notice.
        I'd suggest everyone watch the morning report at: suspicious0bservers,org and maybe download their disaster prediction app, if you have a dumb phone or one of those youpad thingies. [sar]
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  • Posted by NealS 6 years, 12 months ago
    Bring it on !!! I've got lots of tin foil. I think I'll put on a steel roof too, just in case.
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    • Posted by $ nickursis 6 years, 11 months ago
      I already have one, great for fire protection in the PAC NW...
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      • Posted by NealS 6 years, 11 months ago
        Who installed it? 14 months ago I moved from Redmond WA, selling my house. Inspection found leaks from 7 year old steel roof, and found it was installed wrong. Company (Statewide) out of business, cost me $30K for new roof to close the sale. Just a warning.
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        • Posted by $ nickursis 6 years, 11 months ago
          Wow, I don't know their name anymore, I am fairly sure it was installed right, as we had to skip sheath it with OSB, then mat it with roofing paper, then put the metal on. We had shake shingles that were rotting, and the roof is a weird only 6" thick thing that was put on top of the beams that are the support. It is a weird house, but we have almost sold it twice and it passed inspection both times.
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          • Posted by NealS 6 years, 11 months ago
            Not meant to scare you. Sounds like yours was done right, just wanted you to be aware if it was Statewide that might have done it. The problem with mine seemed to be that as the roof heated and cooled, expanded and contracted, it would pull the screws loose. Then it would leak in heavy rain as the little gaskets could not provide a good seal anymore. The screws held it down on the high ridges of a metal roof that resembled a sort of Spanish Tile shape. Upon inspection some of the screws completely missed the skip sheathing. I was told it should have been totally sheathed with plywood, then papered and roofed.
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            • Posted by $ nickursis 6 years, 11 months ago
              Well, that is one issue I have found with ALL metal roofing, especially outbuildings with just the regular corrugated metal and screws. Summer does back them out and every winter I have a barrage of leaks all over. I have had no indication of that issue with my house though, but it has the screws under the overlap of each sheet so they should not be exposed to direct rain. About 19 years old now or so, and I took the leftovers and did my deck roof as well, which also has never leaked,
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 12 months ago
    Can we do anything about old Sol? Can we stop solar flares, solar winds? No?
    Than WTF sit back and enjoy life to the extent that you are able.
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