Sipsey Street Irregulars: How a solar storm two years ago nearly caused a catastrophe on Earth

Friday, July 25, 2014

How a solar storm two years ago nearly caused a catastrophe on Earth

“If it had hit, we would still be picking up the pieces,” physicist Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado tells NASA.

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Anonymous said...: How odd. Just 4 days ago, in response to a discussion on NSA's digital surveillance state on another blog, I opined that the conversion revolution from analog systems to digital is a folly of biblical proportions. Regardless of it's inherent positives, the 800lb gorilla is just waiting to send us back to the stone age, notwithstanding anarchy within a day, by virtue of just ONE massive coronal mass ejection from the sun.

And then, I saw this article two hours before I came here.
Sooprise sooprise sooprise.

Of course, considering the way things are heading towards Orwell's vision of the future of a jackboot on your face ..forever.. I think it just might be a good equalizer.; July 25, 2014 at 5:23 AM
Anonymous said...: If anyone took the time to read the article on the CME's and the comments following it, they should
have noticed the references to Dr. William R. Forstchens book, 'One Second After'. The Foreword for it was written by Newt Gingrich.

The scenario of the book begins with an EMP that takes at the power grid in at least North Carolina. It doesn't say or allude to how the EMP was generated, just that there was one.

I would recommend reading this book to everyone !! The possibility of the U.S. being hit by one or more EMPs is a reality.
They could be generated by nuclear tipped missiles launched from cargo ships in the Gulf of Mexico or from submarines off the coasts, and there would be no way to launch counter measures to stop them in time.

I'd also suggest that if you didn't read the article Mike linked to, you make the time to go back and read it and the comments following it. A lot of them you can skip through fast because they're posted by clowns, but there are others that are there made by well informed and intelligent people.

The story in One Second After is a highly plausible scenario and should serve as a real 'wake up call' for a lot of people.

And while you're waking up to how bad a situation such an even would really create, bear in mind that those in our corrupt, tyrannical, traitorous government have spent billions on places and things t protect themselves and their chosen few, and nothing to protect you and yours !!; July 25, 2014 at 10:37 AM
Anonymous said...: quote"The possibility of the U.S. being hit by one or more EMPs is a reality."unquote

Indeed....

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/19/north-korea-emp-attack-could-destroy-us-now/?page=all

Just one is all it would take. And there's the sun.

Side note...WTF..what is an AD(Photo Sphere) doing in the field where numbers or words appear for you to prove you are not a robot????

Even when I "refresh" it, something is still trying to insert itself, but fails.; July 26, 2014 at 8:06 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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