NASA evaluates CME of July 2012: We were lucky

Upon examining data from the Coronal Mass Ejection of July 23, 2012, NASA now says Earth very narrowly missed a repeat of the Carrington Event of 1856. It's questionable how prepared any of us really are for such an event, which is estimated to have a 12% chance of recurring in the next 10 years.
Read here: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/23jul_superstorm/

 

That'll scare the pants off ya!

"Humanity"

Humanity
Auf wiedersehen
It's time to say goodbye
The party's over
As the laughter dies
An angel cries

Humanity
It's au revoir to your insanity
You sold your soul to feed your vanity
Your fantasies and lies

You're a drop in the rain
Just a number not a name
And you don't see it
You don't believe it
At the end of the day
You're a needle in the hay
You signed and sealed it
And now you gotta deal with it
Humanity
Goodbye

Be on your way
Adios amigo there's a price to pay
For all the egotistic games you played
The world you made
Is gone

Run and hide there's fire in the sky
Stay inside
The water's gonna rise and pull you under
In your eyes I'm staring at the end of time
Nothing can change us
No one can save us from ourselves

Humanity
Goodbye

 

At least give credit to the Scorpions if you're gonna post their lyrics.

 

Oh yeah, DUH I meant to. SCORPS!!!!

 

I'm not sure I follow the conclusions reached by U of C and NASA. STEREO-A (and B for that matter) are in orbits which are synchronized with Earth around the sun. STEREO-A was in the direct line-of-fire of the CME, yet was undamaged. The scenario that Earth would have received unprecedented damage when STEREO-A emerged unscathed makes no sense. The Van Allen belt, the ionosphere and our own atmosphere provide considerable shielding. I guess I'm not ready to buy the gloom-and-doom scenario they describe just yet. Besides, there is very little factual evidence from the 1856 event because, well, there was very little infrastructure to damage, and there was even less infrastructure in existence to record it.

 

Stereo (A,B) have Hardened Electronics. While on Earth we have thousands of miles of antennas called power-lines.

Is your Computer, Cell-phone and your Provider HARDENED?

Do you remember the North East power outage of 1980?

 

I sure do remember, Paul. Even so, in truth nobody's quite sure what caused it ... and I'm sure we'd see *some* effects of a huge flare here if we are ever in the crosshairs. But aren't GPS, et al, also "hardened"? The reports the "news outlets" are making, predicting widespread gloom and doom are overstated. Stereo A and B (an awesome project, by the way) are rad-proofed to the same degree GPS GOES, etc, etc are. What good is a sensitive spectrometer if you position it behind a lead shield?

 

The Sats. are hardened. Again it is the receivers here on Earth. Your hand held, Dash mounted, boat mounted and timing units used by media. Will get pulsed. I have a nice collection of boat anhcors (tube units) to be able to stay on the air I figure that will be the only equipment still useable. I figure anything that does not have a solid state device to control it's opperation should still work. I am unsure if an ignition coil will live through a pulse.

Some of the newer Mil. Gear should still work.

 

SOME BODY NEEDS TO PUBLISH WHATS NEEDS TO BE DONE TO HARDEN, PASSIVELY OR ACTIVELY, YOUR EQUIPMENT AGAINST THAT TYPE OF EVENT AND NO ONE HAS THAT i KNOW OF.

 

http://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-36.pdf

 

the easiest way would be to store it inside an old microwave oven in a basement or underground radiation shelter .

 

Thanks Lee.