NASA Warns of Potential "Huge Space Storm" In 2013 464
Low Ranked Craig writes "Senior space agency scientists believe the Earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of magnetic energy from solar flares after the Sun wakes 'from a deep slumber' sometime around 2013. In a new warning, NASA said the super storm could hit like 'a bolt of lightning' and could cause catastrophic consequences for the world's health, emergency services, and national security — unless precautions are taken. Scientists believe damage could extend to everyday items such as home computers, iPods, and sat navs. 'We know it is coming but we don't know how bad it is going to be,' said Dr. Richard Fisher, the director of NASA's Heliophysics division. 'I believe we're on the threshold of a new era in which space weather can be as influential in our daily lives as ordinary terrestrial weather.' Fisher concludes. 'We take this very seriously indeed.'"
Around 2013 (Score:2, Funny)
Around 2013? So what, maybe December 2012...
Mayans only off by a few months. (Score:4, Funny)
Michael Bay it! (Score:3, Funny)
I still have my Y2K food (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, good... I was worried that I'd have to throw out all that canned Y2K food that I have in my basement bunker. (actually, it's technically my mom's basement)
Re:Invest in FRDY! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:home computers, iPods, and sat navs (Score:5, Funny)
because apparently the only PMP's affected will be ipods..
No EMP resistance, less space then a nomad, lame
Re:Scary (Score:4, Funny)
So would something like an EMP destroy pace makers, artificial hearts, etc.? I know the typical discussion is in regards to someone not being able to listen to their Jason Mraz album on their iPod, but would something like this essentially kill anyone with an artificial/bionic enhancement that controls life support?
No. My titanium ribs act as a Faraday Cage and protect my electronic innards. So after the disaster happens.... I'LL BE BACK.
Re:TFA. (Score:5, Funny)
If you RTFA, it's not a world ending event. It's just gonna mess up some transformers if they don't turn them off in time.
But will it be more likely to turn Autobots into Decepticons or the other way around? It's an important distinction!
Re:Mayans only off by a few months. (Score:3, Funny)
Technically they can still be proven correct, no one knows when the suns next big fart is coming up (the shiny one, not the paper version, they shit crap out all the time :D - and are probably an even greater danger to society)
Re:Good thing we dont have Electric Cars yet (Score:2, Funny)
If there's an EMP-level event from the Sun, any cars made since about 1970 will be rendered inoperable.
Good, my 1968 muscle car will still work. And since everyone else's cars will be dead, there'll be plenty of cheap gas and I won't care that it only gets 9MPG.
Fantastic Four? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:home computers, iPods, and sat navs (Score:4, Funny)
You people laugh at my Zune now....but, you'll see!
Re:Around 2013 (Score:5, Funny)
I think they're saying exactly December 21, 2012, the Winter Solstice and end of the thirteenth b'ak'tun, the ending of the Great Year, the Age of Pisces, the Platonic Cycle, Barack Obama's first term.
I'm convinced that there are a lot of powerful (and not so powerful) interests are using "2012" as a tabula rasa onto which to draw their agendas. And I'm not just talking about crazy new agers.
The US intelligence service has been toying with manipulating belief systems since the end of WWII. They've looked at (and maybe used) the UFO phenomena, Egyptian mysticism, Christianity, parapsychology and of course, psychotropic drugs as ways to influence events around the world and here at home. I'm not saying they believe in these things, but that they believe they can use these things, or rather, that they can manipulate other peoples' belief in these things. MK-ULTRA, Project Monarch, astrology, Andrija Puharich and the "Council of Nine" (involving Arthur M. Young of Bell Helicopters and Lee Harvey Oswald's wife by the way) were some nascent efforts in this area, and "2012" may be their pièce de résistance.
There's just something that feels to me really manipulative about all this "2012" mishegas.
[I just realized I quoted Latin, French and Yiddish in this post, which while not my record, is pretty good for 8 o'clock on a tuesday morning.]
Re:Scary (Score:5, Funny)
This morning's unprecedented solar eclipse - Is no cause for alarm ... Only Doctor Hans Zarkov formerly at NASA - Has provided any explanation
Flash will save us all. Except for iPhone/Pad users.
Re:Good thing we dont have Electric Cars yet (Score:3, Funny)
Good, my 1968 muscle car will still work. And since everyone else's cars will be dead, there'll be plenty of cheap gas and I won't care that it only gets 9MPG.
That and you'll get more 'muscle' by pumping the gas out of the station's underground tank by hand. Bring cash.
Re:Scary (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Scary (Score:3, Funny)
It's Apple's own fault for rejecting Flash.
Re:You're fucking with me, right? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:sure, sure. (Score:1, Funny)
Well then you are in for a hot suprise, mate.
Re:sure, sure. (Score:3, Funny)
The current lull in sunspot activity is caused by Global Warming.
Re:sure, sure. (Score:3, Funny)
It is common knowledge the sun has seasons, like the hearth. But they take 11 years to cycle.
Yeah. my hearth is cold in the summer, and warm in the winter.