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Likelihood of a Solar EMP scenario decreasing? (OP) Or increasing? (post #5)
I saw this in another thread and thought it was worth a thread of it's own.
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A direct hit from a large CME would likely cause all sorts of havoc. But the latest science news, ignored by the climate change chorus, is that the sun is becoming unusually quiet and that a new "Maunder Minimum" (little ice age?) could occur by 2015. Here is video of a scientific presenter who claims these findings were suppressed for four years: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=414_1...BbgTXPOkpAt.99 Here is a news article on this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...es-plunge.html Quote:
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Decreasing? f it happens with a fixed frequency then the odds of it happening any given day are always the same. If not, then the answer is: it depends. There aren't a lot of ways to get good data from the year 1645, so I'm betting there's some wiggle-room built in there.
As touched on, the issue is the direction of the flare. It's likely it won't be pointed at the earth, simply because most of the sun doesn't point at the earth. So there are the odds of a flare of that magnitude happening (rare), compounded by the odds of that size flare pointing right at us (also rare). There might also be mitigating factors, such as other planets directly in the path of such a flare, preventing us from getting the full effect, or other factors. As for the Maunder Minimum putting the kibosh on any significant flares, maybe, but again, it's not as though there were solar observatories in the 17th century. Perhaps there were just as many big flares during the minimum, but OTHER solar activity was at a minimum, and all the flares just so happened to be pointed away from earth, so the geological data (or whatever they're using to estimate the level of solar activity from ~400 years ago) doesn't reflect the true level of big flare activity.
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I don't think the likelihood of an EMP is diminishing. It is a very real threat that could happen at any time no matter how remote.
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Solar flares and CMEs come from sun spots - no sun spots, no solar flares: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspot Quote:
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One thing I hadn't though of before was variable sun behavior that could be bad for us. Just now on the Maunder Minimum Wikipedia page, I saw this entry in the sun spot table: Quote:
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Here's something new, and going against my own OP. PDF Article
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But then you could get the big heart attack or a jet engine can fall off of an airliner and smoosh you dead??? Be prepared just in case like the people would do years ago. Ya know before everybody became mass consumers
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Likelihood that nearby aliens have taken a dislike to our species and are in the middle of spending 75 years accelerating a 40 kilometer diameter rock up to 0.1C and it's scheduled to arrive dead center on Planet Earth in about 50 years?
It's gonna look just like Alderaan. Terminal ballistics at one tenth the speed of light anyone? And how do you prep for that?
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A good deal of hardening of electrical components in key areas have made,the potential for disaster less then it was 5 years ago, but it's still huge.
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