NASA warns Solar Flare could wipe us out

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   Is there any real way we could prepare for the damage or loss of the power grid due to sun storm activity?  Things are getting more vocal on the net as NASA repeats these warnings and we find out how close we were a few years ago to a major hit on America. 

http://www.solarham.net/

There is trouble brewing, but hasn't there always been for thousands of years?  Perhaps one significant point is our technology.  The damage from an EMP burst would not have been as noticeable a hundred years ago when there was no power grid. 

It seems that the end of the years and well as the end of every thousand years i.e. 1999 brings the doomsayers out of the closet. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/12/x-class-solar-flare_n_6855556.html

Is this old news or an event about to happen?

Medclinician

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Medclinician Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List V.I.P. Member Valued Member Since 2006 Joined: July 08 2009 Status: Offline Points: 23322	Post Options Post Reply Quote Medclinician Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: NASA warns Solar Flare could wipe us out Posted: December 27 2015 at 7:46am
	Is there any real way we could prepare for the damage or loss of the power grid due to sun storm activity? Things are getting more vocal on the net as NASA repeats these warnings and we find out how close we were a few years ago to a major hit on America. http://www.solarham.net/ There is trouble brewing, but hasn't there always been for thousands of years? Perhaps one significant point is our technology. The damage from an EMP burst would not have been as noticeable a hundred years ago when there was no power grid. It seems that the end of the years and well as the end of every thousand years i.e. 1999 brings the doomsayers out of the closet. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/12/x-class-solar-flare_n_6855556.html Is this old news or an event about to happen? Medclinician
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CRS, DrPH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Expert Level Adviser Joined: January 20 2014 Location: Arizona Status: Offline Points: 26660	Post Options Post Reply Quote CRS, DrPH Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: December 27 2015 at 3:04pm
	It is both old news AND something that could happen soon. Statistically, a space-weather event that has a severe impact upon our grid is a certainty. We just don't know if it will be in the next year or 100 years, but it will happen. http://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/emerging-tech-blog/2015/12/white-house-prepping-most-violent-space-weather-imaginable/124223/ The Earth’s most expensive natural disasters on record include earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis, but the White House is focused on a far costlier disaster emanating from space. In November, the White House’s National Science and Technology Council released its National Space Weather Action Plan outlining how the federal government might respond to a solar storm, the term used to describe varying bursts of energy released by the sun. According to researchers, an extreme enough solar storm could cripple the world’s electronic and satellite systems, potentially causing financial damages tallying over $2 trillion. Comparatively, the most expensive natural disaster to date was an earthquake in Japan in 2011 – the quake that also caused the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plan to fail – that cost approximately $230 billion. The new plan, authored by a task force consisting of Department of Homeland Security, White House and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials, is pretty clear about the risk solar storms pose.
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CRS, DrPH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Expert Level Adviser Joined: January 20 2014 Location: Arizona Status: Offline Points: 26660	Post Options Post Reply Quote CRS, DrPH Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: December 28 2015 at 4:54pm
	This is good: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/02may_superstorm/ May 2, 2014: Last month (April 8-11), scientists, government officials, emergency planners and others converged on Boulder, Colorado, for NOAA's Space Weather Workshop—an annual gathering to discuss the perils and probabilities of solar storms. The current solar cycle is weaker than usual, so you might expect a correspondingly low-key meeting. On the contrary, the halls and meeting rooms were abuzz with excitement about an intense solar storm that narrowly missed Earth. "If it had hit, we would still be picking up the pieces," says Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado, who presented a talk entitled The Major Solar Eruptive Event in July 2012: Defining Extreme Space Weather Scenarios.
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Satori Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Valued Member Joined: June 03 2013 Status: Offline Points: 28655	Post Options Post Reply Quote Satori Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: December 28 2015 at 5:14pm
	we've had warning after warning from "Mother Nature" and yet the response from government continues to be luke warm and totally inadequate even criminal in my opinion one of these days we are going to lose at Russian roulette and ALWAYS remember JacksDad's signature line "Any community that fails to prepare, with the expectation that the federal government will come to the rescue, will be tragically wrong." Michael Leavitt, HHS Secretary. depend on the government to take care of you ??? you will be TRAGICALLY WRONG it don't get no clearer than that