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2023-03-24 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

March 12, 2023-The World Dodged a Near Human-Extinction Carrington Event- Scary And True

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Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-03-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Oh, dammit!

Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-24 08:05|| 2023-03-24 08:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Near Human-Extinction

Put that up there with the man made global warming apocalypse. Somehow the species survived without electrical energy for several millennium. We'd be back to the 19th century. Remember trains were operating well before the 'electric' revolution.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-03-24 08:06|| 2023-03-24 08:06|| Front Page Top

#3 I can it now..
DC to budget 💲💲💰💰💸💸💸 Billions to study the sun works and how to prevent such an event from happening again.

Adam Shiftless as director & Hunter Biden to headup the Accounting Dept.

Posted by NN2N1 2023-03-24 09:56|| 2023-03-24 09:56|| Front Page Top

#4 What SPF level would I have needed to survive? Would I have had to go full Tammy Fae Baker?

Posted by Super Hose 2023-03-24 12:27|| 2023-03-24 12:27|| Front Page Top

#5 ref #2 P2K
The pre-electrical infrastructure of horses, water-powered milling and manual coal mining does not exist in scale. 85-90 of western civilization has none of the requisite skills to recommence farming and steam energy before famine wiped them out. The articles suggested literally every electrical device used in modern life, every pump, every motor, every computer, every farm implement that operated on any form of electricity would be fried. Consider the impact and disaster in the first week. That is what prompted the description of near extinction event.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-03-24 12:30|| 2023-03-24 12:30|| Front Page Top

#6 This EME was not like a jet directed at a point but more like a 180 degree big explosion

I'm not sure it would have done the damage people are asserting

Posted by lord garth 2023-03-24 15:49|| 2023-03-24 15:49|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 I didn't say it wouldn't have impacts, just not to the extinction level. The Amish would be among the least hit. Third world countries across the globe would weather it far better as they far less to fall. Electronic stock materials that is not fully assembled will likely not to be as radically effected. Your military has EMP proofed stock that has been rigorously tested which offers a limited but functional backup infrastructure. As far as social resilience, adaptivity to the new environment will determine who survives. The Greenies will get their darkest wish, though I suspect a lot of them will not be among the survivors 5+ years later.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-03-24 16:55|| 2023-03-24 16:55|| Front Page Top

#8 There was a kinda fun thought story floating around there for a bit. Something like:

Back in ancient times, an electronic technology had enslaved humans. One day, there was a sunburst, and soon after all the electronic technology quit working and humans were free. Henceforth, humans in various ways worshiped the sun.

Nowadays though, I'm afraid NoMoreBS is correct but I'd go so far as not just Western Civ but the world after all things sort out.

If its been a while, or know someone who hasn't seen it - especially youngsters:

Connections Episode 1: The Trigger Effect

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-03-24 16:56|| 2023-03-24 16:56|| Front Page Top

#9 IIRC B posted this a while ago. Download for your own use.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-03-24 18:26|| 2023-03-24 18:26|| Front Page Top

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