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University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” |
411 User ID: 48870613 United States 12/12/2013 01:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” A massive ejection of material from the sun initially traveling at over 7 million miles per hour that narrowly missed Earth last year is an event solar scientists hope will open the eyes of policymakers regarding the impacts and mitigation of severe space weather, says a University of Colorado Boulder professor. he coronal mass ejection, or CME, event was likely more powerful than the famous Carrington storm of 1859, when the sun blasted Earth’s atmosphere hard enough twice to light up the sky from the North Pole to Central America and allowed New Englanders to read their newspapers at night by aurora light, said CU-Boulder Professor Daniel Baker. Had it hit Earth, the July 2012 event likely would have created a technological disaster by short-circuiting satellites, power grids, ground communication equipment and even threatening the health of astronauts and aircraft crews, he said. CMEs are part of solar storms and can send billions of tons of solar particles in the form of gas bubbles and magnetic fields off the sun’s surface and into space. The storm events essentially peel Earth’s magnetic field like an onion, allowing energetic solar wind particles to stream down the field lines to hit the atmosphere over the poles. Fortunately, the 2012 solar explosion occurred on the far side of the rotating sun just a week after that area was pointed toward Earth, said Baker, a solar scientist and the director of CU-Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. But NASA’s STEREO-A, satellite that was flying ahead of the Earth as the planet orbited the sun, captured the event, including the intensity of the solar wind, the interplanetary magnetic field and a rain of solar energetic particles into space. “My space weather colleagues believe that until we have an event that slams Earth and causes complete mayhem, policymakers are not going to pay attention,” he said. “The message we are trying to convey is that we made direct measurements of the 2012 event and saw the full consequences without going through a direct hit on our planet.” MORE.... [ link to www.theweatherspace.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 51431029 Canada 12/12/2013 01:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” LAUGHABLE BUNK!!! THis is obviously just a sick joke! THere is no such thing as unicorns, zombies, pixies, society or the Loch Ness Monster. These are MAKEBELIEVE, FICTIONAL monsters that do not exist! If this guy serious believes in the existence of 'society' then there is ZERO NEED to read further as he is clearly off his F**KING rocker! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 51431029 Canada 12/12/2013 01:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” LAUGHABLE BUNK!!! THis is obviously just a sick joke! THere is no such thing as unicorns, zombies, pixies, society or the Loch Ness Monster. These are MAKEBELIEVE, FICTIONAL monsters that do not exist! If this guy serious believes in the existence of 'society' then there is ZERO NEED to read further as he is clearly off his F**KING rocker! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 16622571 United States 12/12/2013 02:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” CMEs can literally destroy all technology on earth, they are very real and very dangerous. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 33676911 United States 12/12/2013 02:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare”
LAUGHABLE BUNK!!! THis is obviously just a sick joke! THere is no such thing as unicorns, zombies, pixies, society or the Loch Ness Monster. These are MAKEBELIEVE, FICTIONAL monsters that do not exist! If this guy serious believes in the existence of 'society' then there is ZERO NEED to read further as he is clearly off his F**KING rocker! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 51431029 LAUGHABLE BUNK!!! THis is obviously just a sick joke! THere is no such thing as unicorns, zombies, pixies, society or the Loch Ness Monster. These are MAKEBELIEVE, FICTIONAL monsters that do not exist! If this guy serious believes in the existence of 'society' then there is ZERO NEED to read further as he is clearly off his F**KING rocker! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 51431029 CMEs can literally destroy all technology on earth, they are very real and very dangerous.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 16622571 two CANADIAN POSTS? that quick? hhhmmm...watching |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 46821329 Canada 12/12/2013 02:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” The OP is an a/c....how did this thread get pinned with only 4 posts????? |
R.P. McMurphy
User ID: 17078589 United States 12/12/2013 02:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” The OP is an a/c....how did this thread get pinned with only 4 posts?????
Quoting: saffire&gold Maybe someone just thought it was a pin-worthy thread. "Moral of the story is I chose a half measure when I should have gone all the way. I'll never make that mistake again.
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 49865757 United States 12/12/2013 02:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” If true, why do some worship a Sun that might kill them? |
krosty
User ID: 46442930 United States 12/12/2013 03:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” We can make the earth a faraday cage with chemtrails. |
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zion83n6
User ID: 50495345 United States 12/12/2013 03:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” The OP is an a/c....how did this thread get pinned with only 4 posts?????
Quoting: saffire&gold It should be obvious. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 50006593 United States 12/12/2013 03:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” :fuuuuu23: |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 8310330 United States 12/12/2013 04:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” The OP is an a/c....how did this thread get pinned with only 4 posts?????
Quoting: saffire&gold I would venture a guess that the information contained in the post is relevant to most living thing's on this planet. just a guess |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 51407416 Australia 12/12/2013 04:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” beauty!! sun doooooom is the BEST dooooooooooom of them all. |
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Hugh M Eye
User ID: 49970192 United States 12/12/2013 05:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” beauty!! sun doooooom is the BEST dooooooooooom of them all. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 51407416 |
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Blades11
User ID: 1343219 United States 12/12/2013 06:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” If true, why do some worship a Sun that might kill them?
Quoting: Harbinger Of Truth You say kill, I say open a doorway. Evolution requires death, it is nothing to be afraid of. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 45561235 Australia 12/12/2013 06:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare”
The OP is an a/c....how did this thread get pinned with only 4 posts?????
Quoting: saffire&gold I would venture a guess that the information contained in the post is relevant to most living thing's on this planet. just a guess Quoting: shinbone Surely not...it must be an AC conspiracy...after all only logged in members get pins right? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 30311833 United States 12/12/2013 07:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” |
SteamrolledGobias
User ID: 46787476 United States 12/12/2013 07:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” If true, why do some worship a Sun that might kill them?
Quoting: Harbinger Of Truth You say kill, I say open a doorway. Evolution requires death, it is nothing to be afraid of. Quoting: Blades11 without the sun we never would have had a chance to experience life in the first place |
Kirk
User ID: 49863729 United States 12/12/2013 07:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” We can make the earth a faraday cage with chemtrails.
Quoting: krosty you wish. Government is a body largely ungoverned. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 51392933 United States 12/12/2013 07:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare”
I wonder why anyone thinks anything could really be done to prevent or mitigate a killer flare. We're talking about the sun here.. A pretty awesomely powerful thing. Instead we should be thinking about how we will function without technology and become more self reliant. If we did lose power, at least there would be some relief for everyone from the fascist alien takeover or whatever the hell is going on. |
411 (OP) User ID: 48870613 United States 12/12/2013 01:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” You're a bit late to the party, Baker.
Quoting: Rogue Messenger He's been at it for a while. Just the latest headline. Here's a short interview from 2009. Nothing new or that most don't know already but still... |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 48870613 United States 12/12/2013 05:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: University of Boulder, Col Scientist: “Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare” |
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