Space Storm Alert: 90 Seconds from Catastrophe
March 27th, 2009Via: New Scientist:
It sounds ridiculous. Surely the sun couldn’t create so profound a disaster on Earth. Yet an extraordinary report funded by NASA and issued by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in January this year claims it could do just that.
Over the last few decades, western civilisations have busily sown the seeds of their own destruction. Our modern way of life, with its reliance on technology, has unwittingly exposed us to an extraordinary danger: plasma balls spewed from the surface of the sun could wipe out our power grids, with catastrophic consequences.
The projections of just how catastrophic make chilling reading. “We’re moving closer and closer to the edge of a possible disaster,” says Daniel Baker, a space weather expert based at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and chair of the NAS committee responsible for the report.
It is hard to conceive of the sun wiping out a large amount of our hard-earned progress. Nevertheless, it is possible. The surface of the sun is a roiling mass of plasma – charged high-energy particles – some of which escape the surface and travel through space as the solar wind. From time to time, that wind carries a billion-tonne glob of plasma, a fireball known as a coronal mass ejection (see “When hell comes to Earth”). If one should hit the Earth’s magnetic shield, the result could be truly devastating.
Research Credit: remrof
These infrastructure risks can be minimized by using distributed generation and barium coating your hard-drive, when the time comes somebody will have that infrastructure advantage.
Will the sun knock out our ability to reflect more sunlight back into space before we succeed in reflecting more sunlight back into space? I hope not. By reflecting more sunlight back into space, we can trigger an ice age so that it won’t be necessary to waste precious energy on refrigerating our frozen TV dinners.
‘plasma balls spewed from the surface of the sun could wipe out our power grids, with catastrophic consequences.’
The book ‘above black’ by Dan Sherman exposes the pentagon’s remote viewer group that has been preparing to be the eyes of the military when the grid goes down- as they are well aware of happening in our near future.