Memo to the paranoid: Here come the giant sunspots!

Posted: April 3rd, 2008 | By Ray Hartley | Posted in General | Tagged as , , , , , , ,
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MEMO to the paranoid: Add this to your list of worries: In 2012, we will be hit by raging giant sunspots.
Described by wired.com as “planet-sized sunspots that spew super-hot gas, hurling clouds of electrons, protons, and heavier ions toward Earth at nearly the speed of light”, they are not to be laughed off.
Scientists spotted a “reverse-polarity sunspot in January, a signal that the nasty sunspots are on their way.
What damage can they cause? They “have been known to knock out power grids and TV broadcasts.” A similar storm in 1979 knocked the Skylab satellite down to earth. Be afraid.

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Comments

 

Billy C

April 3, 2008 at 6:20 pm

By 2012 we wont have a power grid worth knocking down.

Better idea to develop survivalist solar panels lining redundant white elephant unused 600000 peopols 2010 soccer stadia and harness the solar storms into our Eishkom grid… to re-energise our economy and homes.

Pass me the hadeda jerky

 

Ray H

April 3, 2008 at 8:06 pm

Dude??!!???

 

Tad Cook

April 4, 2008 at 12:22 am

The new sunspot is not evidence of problems in the future. It is merely one of the sunspots of cycle 24, beginning around now. Sunspots rise and fall in 11 year (actually 9-14 year) cycles, and right now we are near or just passed the sunspot minimum at the end of cycle 23. There is no indication and in fact no scientist predicts an unusually high solar cycle this time around.

K7RA (amateur radio operator)

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