Sun storms missing earth

HolySchimmel

HolySchimmel

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Just read this and found it quite interesting.

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/03/18/fierce-solar-magnetic-storm-barely-missed-earth-in-2012/

Apparently we got missed by a huge sun-storm in july 2012.

In the article it says, that studies have calculated the amount of possible damge with up to 2.6 trillion $.

And accoirding to the article, events like that happen more often than scientists thought up to now. The chance that a storm like the one in 2012 will hit us in the next 10 years are about 1/8.

Pretty crazy in my opinion.
 
It was going to hit in December 2012 but it sped up and that's why it passed in July 2012.

12.5% change in the next decade? Then why has it never happened before? Have such storms hit Earth and we just didn't pay attention because it was before humanity relied so much on technology/electronics? Or is Solar activity increasing that significantly?
 
well there was an example of a storm in the 19th century. But I guess with the increase in usage of electricity all around the world, the consequences just get more and more severe. I read that that previous storm destroyed telegraph posts and so on, but thats nothing compared to what would happen today I guess.

As for the intensity, I just think that scientists have way more data to evaluate now then they had before, so they can estimate the number of such events way better. I'm not really sure if the 12.5% is a true number or just something someone threw out there ;)
 
don't want to seem like a lunatic, but i've been reading how some scientists believe that our solar system is actually part of a binary star system. so other planets of our solar system are having massive earthquakes+fucky weather because of gravitational pull from these 'unknown' planets which cross paths with our orbits. don't even want to get into the stars. sounds fucked but the oldest known civilization(and religion) in history has all this shit documented, take a look at the Sumerian Tablets. i used to think all that Nibiru shit was bs but now not so sure.....sumeria son.
 
13070501:HolySchimmel said:
well there was an example of a storm in the 19th century. But I guess with the increase in usage of electricity all around the world, the consequences just get more and more severe. I read that that previous storm destroyed telegraph posts and so on, but thats nothing compared to what would happen today I guess.

As for the intensity, I just think that scientists have way more data to evaluate now then they had before, so they can estimate the number of such events way better. I'm not really sure if the 12.5% is a true number or just something someone threw out there ;)
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I know neither of us are scientist here, but why would increased electricity use cause a sun storm?
 
13071052:louie.mirags said:
I know neither of us are scientist here, but why would increased electricity use cause a sun storm?
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Of course it wouldn't. But the damage done by a storm is increased since we, as humans, are far more dependent on electricity as we were in 19th century.
 
13071184:HolySchimmel said:
Of course it wouldn't. But the damage done by a storm is increased since we, as humans, are far more dependent on electricity as we were in 19th century.
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this. when the last major storm hit in the 19th century, telegraph lines were the extent of us being "plugged in". so even though they were fried, it didn't have a major impact on society like it would today. imagine if we suddenly lost all of our power grids, cell phones, internet, etc. obviously could be problematic.
 
13070501:HolySchimmel said:
well there was an example of a storm in the 19th century. But I guess with the increase in usage of electricity all around the world, the consequences just get more and more severe. I read that that previous storm destroyed telegraph posts and so on, but thats nothing compared to what would happen today I guess.

As for the intensity, I just think that scientists have way more data to evaluate now then they had before, so they can estimate the number of such events way better. I'm not really sure if the 12.5% is a true number or just something someone threw out there ;)
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Read up on the Carrington event. Take a seat and cry over how fragile our civilization is.
 
13071690:erikK said:
Read up on the Carrington event. Take a seat and cry over how fragile our civilization is.
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I did, and I find it kinda amazing how easy it is for nature to cause damage, even to a civilization as "evolved" as ours.
 
13071720:HolySchimmel said:
I did, and I find it kinda amazing how easy it is for nature to cause damage, even to a civilization as "evolved" as ours.
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Meant to quote the post above you ha
 
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