Carrington Event

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859

One of my legacy projects if I was president. Jobs created, technology perfected, national security enhanced but this is beyond your savior and his minions.

Imagine a 9/11 style event in cities all over the world and then all communication stops...and doesn't come back. Your car won't run and you can't get gas or water without electricity. There is no more food at the grocery stores. You children could be on college just 100 miles away and now you have to there on foot or bicycle without cell phones to connect with each other. CJ, TEX, and EVA would have to leave their basements as their computers wouldn't work anymore. The sunlight would be intense guys, use sunblock.
Keep patting yourself on the back dumb ass, your shit won't work either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859

One of my legacy projects if I was president. Jobs created, technology perfected, national security enhanced but this is beyond your savior and his minions.

Imagine a 9/11 style event in cities all over the world and then all communication stops...and doesn't come back. Your car won't run and you can't get gas or water without electricity. There is no more food at the grocery stores. You children could be on college just 100 miles away and now you have to there on foot or bicycle without cell phones to connect with each other. CJ, TEX, and EVA would have to leave their basements as their computers wouldn't work anymore. The sunlight would be intense guys, use sunblock. Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
So, if communications are knocked out permanently, how come the telegraph systems came back on line in 1859?

Did they have technology back then that we don't?

And if power got knocked out by such as storm in Quebec in 1989, how did they get power restored?
Jewish Lawyer's Avatar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859

One of my legacy projects if I was president. Jobs created, technology perfected, national security enhanced but this is beyond your savior and his minions.

Imagine a 9/11 style event in cities all over the world and then all communication stops...and doesn't come back. Your car won't run and you can't get gas or water without electricity. There is no more food at the grocery stores. You children could be on college just 100 miles away and now you have to there on foot or bicycle without cell phones to connect with each other. CJ, TEX, and EVA would have to leave their basements as their computers wouldn't work anymore. The sunlight would be intense guys, use sunblock. Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
I think 60's era cars could run, because they don't have any electronics subject to the problemo.
So basically every Cuban car would be good to go!
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Obviously not an electrician...or a historian...and a rational thinker.

The telegraph wire in the 1880s was solid core and about 12 gauge. Today's modern wire (open your mind to all of the wires out there) will be stranded and can have a cross sectional diameter of less than a hundredth of what they used over a hundred years ago. Think about your I pad, your pace maker, your electronic ignition. Did you read of where some railroad ties smoldered under the heat of the charged rails?

Of course this was a test. A test of your thinking power. EVA was so caught up his personal biases that he failed to think. XNYKR failed to do some more research and also failed the test.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y72D31LaT5Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8_ogLRkeE

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...rringtonflare/
I guess my generator wont work.. my BSA wont ride, my rifle wont shoot..my MRE's will spoil.

Bullshit. Im covered with two rubbers.
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  • WTF
  • 03-26-2014, 01:55 PM
Anybody wanna guess where JD was during Y2K vs. where I was? It wasn't hiding in my room like JD.
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  • 03-26-2014, 02:06 PM
if JD becomes President....



fat fucking chance of that ever happening .... maybe president of Club Straightjacket... legacy it is !!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859

One of my legacy projects if I was president. Jobs created, technology perfected, national security enhanced but this is beyond your savior and his minions.

Imagine a 9/11 style event in cities all over the world and then all communication stops...and doesn't come back. Your car won't run and you can't get gas or water without electricity. There is no more food at the grocery stores. You children could be on college just 100 miles away and now you have to there on foot or bicycle without cell phones to connect with each other. CJ, TEX, and EVA would have to leave their basements as their computers wouldn't work anymore. The sunlight would be intense guys, use sunblock. Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
You making fun of people who don't leave their basements because they are on the PC? That is rich coming from you Mr. Obscure Solar Event. Fucking weirdo.....
Obviously not an electrician...or a historian...and a rational thinker.

The telegraph wire in the 1880s was solid core and about 12 gauge. Today's modern wire (open your mind to all of the wires out there) will be stranded and can have a cross sectional diameter of less than a hundredth of what they used over a hundred years ago. Think about your I pad, your pace maker, your electronic ignition. Did you read of where some railroad ties smoldered under the heat of the charged rails?

Of course this was a test. A test of your thinking power. EVA was so caught up his personal biases that he failed to think. XNYKR failed to do some more research and also failed the test.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y72D31LaT5Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8_ogLRkeE

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...rringtonflare/ Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
Dim-a-rard you do know how much is buried now don't you? Don't leave your Ipad outside however if you would like to tan you have my permission.
Obviously not an electrician...or a historian...and a rational thinker.

The telegraph wire in the 1880s was solid core and about 12 gauge. Today's modern wire (open your mind to all of the wires out there) will be stranded and can have a cross sectional diameter of less than a hundredth of what they used over a hundred years ago. Think about your I pad, your pace maker, your electronic ignition. Did you read of where some railroad ties smoldered under the heat of the charged rails?

Of course this was a test. A test of your thinking power. EVA was so caught up his personal biases that he failed to think. XNYKR failed to do some more research and also failed the test. Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
Actually, my background is EE, numbnuts.

And today's "modern wire" as you call it, comes in ALL sizes, not just super thin.

Main power lines are thicker than your wrist. The Quebec power outage in 1989 was short lived.

our YouTube videos are yet more superhype. Even if another Carrington occurred, most systems would continue to operate. Satellites have essentially zero protection from solar flares and yet they somehow survive. Electronics on earth are protected by the atmosphere and a lot of it is shielded/grounded. And any device that is power off will generally be fine.

We will be greatly inconvenienced like people in NY/NJ were after Sandy. But it will not be the end of the earth.

A much more likely scenario would be a high altitude detonation of a high radiation nuclear weapon that will knock out a lot of communications.
Isn't it fun to watch Professor Top 0.2 Percent condescend to and gratuitously insult the intelligence of someone incomparably more knowledgeable and several standard deviations brighter than he is, and then get his ass handed to him in an astonishingly embarrassing fashion?

This forum may be many things, but it certainly isn't bereft of entertainment value!
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You making fun of people who don't leave their basements because they are on the PC? That is rich coming from you Mr. Obscure Solar Event. Fucking weirdo..... Originally Posted by timpage
And this from a guy who accepts all the warmists say about the climate even with no proof. At least my event has happened more than once and WILL happen again. I'm giving you a gift, a chance to think about what could happen.
And this from a guy who accepts all the warmists say about the climate even with no proof. At least my event has happened more than once and WILL happen again. I'm giving you a gift, a chance to think about what could happen. Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
You grow more bizarre with each passing day. Talking about your "legacy projects" if you were president. Acting like you give tests here that the rest of us are required to pass....based on your grading curve of course. Rushing to google shit like the size of electrical wiring and then tapping out a canned answer designed to make everybody think that you actually have a few functioning brain cells. Fuck off Admiral. You're a weirdo and a dunce.....and everybody knows it. Google "delusional" and see if your picture pops up.
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Well, we're in luck. Sunspot activity is at a 100 year low due to a weak solar cycle. Praise the lord and pass the sun block.
Sun's Current Solar Activity Cycle Is Weakest in a Century
http://www.space.com/23934-weak-sola...e-weather.html