NOAA Warns of a Solar Storm Region Facing Earth for Next Two Weeks, Carrington-like Event!

I just want to fast forward to the part where all these predictions fail and fail hard.
Groan!! ugh. I hope to god after all this 2012 nonsense the prediction threads will drop in stupidity and severity.
So anti climactic.

reply to post by TiM3LoRd


All this is is just a prediction? I was under the assumption it was possible? I don't know but its weird that we are hearing this stuff all the time and reading it all over the net same ol' thing just a different kind of event.

reply to post by SloAnPainful


Big money in fear. Books, Documentaries and the like.

Nothing wrong at all with being prepared but obsessing on it is very unhealthy. Could happen tomorrow, could happen in ten thousand years. Far more dangerous driving to work.

If you really wondered why all the bunkers and seed banks are being built, well now you know!

Hopefully ask Kiwi's downunder are hardy enough to survive off the land

reply to post by Blaine91555


Very true! Wouldn't disagree with you more. Just seems that there always something that leads up to something else and given how many predictions actually came true But still if things get bad ill be prepared with my rocket launcher and zombie killing skills. *pew pew*

reply to post by SloAnPainful


I have a generator in the crate on insulators, pull start so no need for Faraday cages. My trusty old hunting rifles and lots of fishing gear. A good water filter system that is gravity flow. One man could easily get meat for dozens of people for a year in one hunting trip. Don't even need electricity.

Had a Cow and Calf Moose in my yard this morning and most mornings in the winter. Gets my Wife's cats all worked up. Big kitties scare them

It's the city folk who won't know what to do, even if they have the right stuff. I'd imagine the elite who come up here on their little Eco-vacations will starve first. Lord knows people here are always having to save them from themselves. They get a book and think they are ready for a wilderness trip Just kidding folks, I'll shoot an extra Moose for you, but you have to slaughter it yourself.

Too much caffeine today, sorry.

I think alot of times we want something to happen, just to shake things up a little bit.

But I really do think 2012 is going to be an epic year.

reply to post by argentus


how about a tinfoil skully?

What are we gonna talk about when 2012 comes and goes. I guess they will have to shut down ATS or make up another end of the world scenario.

has anyone looked at the sun on space weather today..I herd there is a cme coming on the 11 perhaps

this is for the 9th..Now i believe well i dont know if this is the spot that is towards earth or not but here it is...www.youtube.com...

1.1 solar flare..nov 9 2011..Now is this coming our way in a couple of days??..........www.youtube.com...

No matter how much I try to worry about stuff like this, the worrying never makes it better. But, if you want to have a really big worry, don't go down the CME road, worry about what happens when half the sun becomes a sunspot. NASA has a picture of a star where 40% of its surface was a sunspot. That's probably make it really, really, really cold here for a month or two - like liquid nitrogen cold. A generator won't help. Diggin in - deep underground - is the only way to survive that. Now THAT'S worth worrying about.

Considering the consequences of what could happen to life as we know it should we encounter a severe geo storm as is being described... I will have to admit it is kinda scary as to what we will do. Our commute to work... which is 30 miles away would be impossible not that there would be a job to report to anyway.

I watched a video earlier that pointed out many points and problems with the fallout of such a storm... quite scary! However, I will not fear... I am a Christian and I believe in the word of God therefore I will not fear but trust in HIM!

reply to post by hisbaby728


Well, something that wipes out the planet (or all or most of us) is, by definition, at the hand of God.

reply to post by Blaine91555


Ah Blaine good to hear from you, how are the storms right now?

reply to post by Evanzsayz


I get it just fine. Perhaps you misunderstood my statement that I don't wish for such an event, but wonder if it might be the only thing that [ultimately] keeps humanity from destroying itself. I know it would be horrible, and people would die. Your example of nuclear power plants is just one of the MANY events that would effect us all. Because I think that I'm a bit prepared for bad times surely doesn't mean I want them. I prepare so I can hope to help others around me if the bad times come. Worst case is, I save money. No brainer.

I guess I just don't have much hope for humanity as a whole getting a clue and electing to work together toward a common goal -- survival, and after that, harmony and fullfillment. Looking at the state of the world, can you blame me?

Originally posted by TrueBrit
reply to post by Eurisko2012

 

We are already shielded from the solar wind. That is what the magnetosphere actually does. It performs this task extremely well considering the size of the task, and at present requires no augmentation in order to perform its function. If it did not, then rather than the slow onset of melanoma for those to stupid to use sunblock, they would merely cook in their skins on their sun loungers.

The only solar activity that poses a danger to Earth, or more specifically its inhabitants, and their devices, are incidents which fall WELL outside the normal range of the solar winds assault on our planets defences. X-class flares being an example.
Protection from these will be more of a case of re-engineering our power infrastructure to be proof against outside forces, to make all electrical grids isolated from the outside world and capable of shrugging off the imbalances caused by a solar storm interacting with our magnetosphere, wether that system be in a computer or a major transformer or substation. This will take a root and branch replacement of pretty much all the cable , wire, conduit, and pretty much all power transfer infrastructure globally. As daft as that might sound, and costly, it is in my opinion the only remotely achievable method of dealing with the danger that solar storms pose.

Well, i did a Google search.
Our sun flipped its magnetic poles back in February 16, 2001.

Add 11 years and we get February 16, 2012.
It looks like we should be okay until then. After that there is only a 5% chance we could get a
CME direct hit. Thanks to the spectacular SDO Solar Dynamics Observatory we should see
it all in beautiful clarity. If it's a repeat of the Carrington Event then we should have about
18 hours to say our prayers and hope for the best.

I predict Denver International Airport will be the busiest airport on Earth.

So i see the internet is still up...

So much for super solar storms.

Doomtards are so anticlimactic.

Originally posted by CaptObvious
Can't find any credible source for that. Oh and the source of the source seems to be just another stupid site, with many many lies.
At least the NOAA Site mentions nothing about that.

Agreed. People need to engage their brains and not make do with one rather dubious source quoting another source quoting another..... It's a novel idea maybe but we need to go back to the originating source rather than just quoting some fearmongering site. This is how internet myths and rumours spread.