Thread: Space weather expert has ominous forecast

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

nahh, just drop the vege oil transfer pump onto the fill port of the underground tank, turn on the 12v and fill up like nothings going wrong...

obviously someones not prepared for the zombie apocalypse

That must have been you I was following on my bike yesterday Dave, The sticker on the trailer read, "Zombie Apocalypse Tactical Response Vehicle". At least Smeg (S3) will keep going.

No more AULRO forums.

We'd have to actually meet up to talk bollacks?! Nah....

There was a mockamentry on seven mate the other weekend about this was a mix of fact and a fictional scenario of such a event happening. Will happen, when who knows. But the more of a electrical gird we have the more we are a lighting rod for this advent. Show explaind that if a solar storm was north pole magnetised, not so bad. But if it is south pole magnetised and of a certain size, not so good ( major understatement ) Earth's magnetic field is apparently polarised north . Was one back in the 1800`s. They know by the eye witness accounts of the time that the storm was a big one. The northern lights could be seen as far south as equator. They also mentioned that most if not all transformers that were running at the time would be fried. There is, as they mentioned, several thousand of these in America alone and the current production rate world wide is not much more than a hundred a year. Would be a long waiting list. There is two good bits of news though. There is now two satellites keeping watch. One is near as the can get to the sun and lets us know if a large storm or flare is heading our way. They can`t tell the speed, so there is one satellite parked a little distance from earth that is alerted by the first one that gives us a time depending on the speed of the storm to take measures to minimise the damage. As in turn the power of. But this a gamble because the strom could turn out to be a fizzer and the people making the decision will cop it big time. The old dammed if they do and dammed if they don`t. But the world powers are taking this threat serious enough to have built special satellites to keep a eye on the sun.
Cheers Hall

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

It is not going to affect computers in cars./QUOTE]


That's up to the EMP. Will affect electronic whizzbangery. The 300tdi will just have to do without the stereo, but everything else will work.

Not talking about an EMP (ElectroMagnetic Pulse). The problem is Coronal Mess Ejections, and the associated geomagnetic storms. Quite a different phenomenon, involving relatively slowly (seconds) changing magnetic field over a very large (tens of thousands of kilometres) area, not a very rapid (microseconds) change over a relatively small (tens of kilometres) area.

John

A few years ago I was involved in rejigging the local DisPlan, one of the biggest threats at the time was considered to be a lengthy blackout.
No fuel, limited cooling/heating, failures of sewage systems, water supplies, inability to purchase most goods (no registers etc), little communications after a short period. etc etc etc


Martyn

Originally Posted by Judo

No more AULRO forums.

We'd have to actually meet up to talk bollacks?! Nah....

What about us who live on the opposite side of our globe? Maybe we can arrange meetings in different places of the globes

This beautiful planet as we know it.....or haven't known it.......has had a major catastrophe.....I mean huge one, every 2 billion years or so since it formed. We havent had one in 3.6 billion years or so. So we are very overdue for a big hit from an asteroid or large meteorite.
anyone interested in my resource?
Rare Earth...Peter Ward and Donald Browntree.
if you are a diehard creationist, dont bother reading unless you want to change your ways

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

This beautiful planet as we know it.....or haven't known it.......has had a major catastrophe.....I mean huge one, every 2 billion years or so since it formed. We havent had one in 3.6 billion years or so. So we are very overdue for a big hit from an asteroid or large meteorite.
anyone interested in my resource?
Rare Earth...Peter Ward and Donald Browntree.
if you are a diehard creationist, dont bother reading unless you want to change your ways

???

For a planet reputed to be 4.55 billion years old, that's around, say, one catastrophe? Anyway, unless the solar system swings through a bunch of rocks on a regular basis there's not much predictable about disaster frequency.

IMO the last decent impactor was around 65 million years ago.

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater"]Chicxulub crater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

BTW it's Brownlee not Browntree. I read the book a few years ago.