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Solar storms possibly to knock out a few satellites?

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June 4, 2010: Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that's new to human history. To make preparations, authorities in Washington DC are holding a meeting: The Space Weather Enterprise Forum at the National Press Club on June 8th.

Many technologies of the 21st century are vulnerable to solar storms. [more]
Richard Fisher, head of NASA's Heliophysics Division, explains what it's all about:
"The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity. At the same time, our technological society has developed an unprecedented sensitivity to solar storms. The intersection of these two issues is what we're getting together to discuss."

The National Academy of Sciences framed the problem two years ago in a landmark report entitled "Severe Space Weather Events—Societal and Economic Impacts." It noted how people of the 21st-century rely on high-tech systems for the basics of daily life. Smart power grids, GPS navigation, air travel, financial services and emergency radio communications can all be knocked out by intense solar activity. A century-class solar storm, the Academy warned, could cause twenty times more economic damage than Hurricane Katrina.
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We're gonna get hit by a big one eventually. If we get hit by a big one we're in serious trouble. Not only would we loose satellites but also the power grid. Having no electricity for a day is bad enough. In the case of a big solar storm it could knock down the grid for months. That also means no drinking water, stores run out of stock, etc etc. Some annalists say that in such case 2/3 of the population of the hit countries would be dead within 6 months to a year.

That's a worst case scenario of course. But it's a very real threat and big solar flares hit earth often. We've just never been effected by one because it's only in recent decades we have become this depended on electricity.
 
They should stop trying to piss around in space and observe the planet we live on first. We know more about space than our own ocean :/

Talk about fucked up priorities. There is more power to be summoned via the ocean/gravity than the world can consume. Go figure.

profit > common sense.
 
jayfella said:
They should stop trying to piss around in space and observe the planet we live on first. We know more about space than our own ocean :/

Talk about fucked up priorities. There is more power to be summoned via the ocean/gravity than the world can consume. Go figure.

profit > common sense.
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Good thinking jay I appreciate it and they dont even know if vampires exists:|
 
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