2012 SOLAR BOMB

[ReaperzXIII]

I read solar bomb and thought that they had created a solar powered bomb or something, now I'm disappointed.

Will the solar storm at least turn people into zombies? Well then again if the internet is shut down I'm sure there will be zombies or at least riots on the streets as otakus and shut ins alike do a united Nerd Rage towards the sun

 

[FightThePower]

It won't end you fool.

 

[Jonluw]

The sun is going to explode! There is only one thing to do: Beat it to it!
[HEADING=3]Nuke the sun![/HEADING]
We won't let it have the satisfaction of bringing us down.

Or, I guess, it will be just as serious as Y2K. I'm going with that one.

 

[J3llo]

http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/sun-storm-to-hit-with-force-of-100-bombs/story-fn5fsgyc-1225909999465

Read it for yourself. Facts point to a global break down of ALL electronics due to the sun having a repeat Solar Storm but this time, WORSE.
All this because the sun will be entering its phase known as Solar Cycle 24


So, think 2012 really is going to be the end? Or is this really what everyone has been crying over?

Then again, without technology, do we really know how to survive?

ima let you finnish, but y2k was the best death of all electronics of all time

 

[Daniel Laeben-Rosen]

Frankly I'm not worried. On a global scale, most important structures are shielded against things like sun, EMP... Nukes...
At the most I think some sections of the phone-networks and so on might go down for a day or two until they fix it. Possibly some blackouts that are eventually fixed in due order.

And if worst of worst comes to pass, all the world's nukes go off and what-not... Well then we're dead, aren't we so what do we care then?

 

[Diligent]

Well, I'm actually not gonna read the article because anything related to 2012 being the end is so full of sheer stupidity that it makes my blood boil.
But I will refer you to this article as a reminder of how we were acting a decade ago:

http://library.thinkquest.org/28272/prepare.html

I fear we're wired to repeat this pattern of irrational doomsaying behaviour for as long as we exist.

 

[Danzaivar]

Isn't this the plot to Assassin's Creed?

 

[Rusty Bucket]

coronal mass ejections

This sounds incredibly dirty.

 

[Yohaun]

Sun, use Solar Beam!
It's super effective!
Computer fainted!

 

[Dwarfman]

http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/sun-storm-to-hit-with-force-of-100-bombs/story-fn5fsgyc-1225909999465

Read it for yourself. Facts point to a global break down of ALL electronics due to the sun having a repeat Solar Storm but this time, WORSE.
All this because the sun will be entering its phase known as Solar Cycle 24


So, think 2012 really is going to be the end? Or is this really what everyone has been crying over?

Then again, without technology, do we really know how to survive?

I've known about this for some time. I'll be there with a deckchair and popcorn - and sunscreen. I'm pale afterall - laughing.

 

[McNinja]

At least the destroyer isn't coming by to wipe out nearly all life on our planet again.

 

[Vie]

Faraday Cage.

Build one, put electronics inside of it. Problem solved.

 

[Dimensional Vortex]

My word, do you know what this means?!?!?! We must EXTINGUISH the Sun! Quickly! Before our computers break!!!

Then we wont be alive to operate the computers xD

 

[Seneschal]

Sensationalist rubbish, it happens regularly and the 2012 episode is actually weaker than the average.

 

[Lilani]

This sounds very much like Y2K to me. I'm not sold on the idea of a cataclysmic solarmax. Either way, it's going to happen, so I don't see why we should spend time and resources to prevent the inevitable. Unless we're going to build a lead shell to hide the whole planet in between now and then, it's best to just carry on and get what we can done.

 

[Jinx_Dragon]

I've listened to experts on the sun and they have pointed out the obvious:
The sun goes through these periods many times in our life, IN OUR LIFETIME!

The worse solar radiation we will see come from the sun in this 'oh so dangerous, high spike' would not be enough to do any damage to the earth at all. It might, at the worse, screw with tele-communications for a brief period of time but guess what: we have so many redundancies in place that it is ridiculous to think we would have a communication blackout that would end the world.

This would be the same as picking up a telephone and hearing a higher then average background noise and maybe having a higher rate of dropped calls. Hell, bad service providers already do worse damage then this solar radiation spike can ever dream of doing to us.

All high tech, including satellites by the way, are far more shielded then they where 20 years ago when we where starting to mess around with electronics in this way. This shielding isn't cause of some fear of solar radiation, by the way, but a simple necessary in a world where we bombard ourselves with far more electronic waves on a daily bases. We realized we have to design things in a way to stop them from interfering with each other, with the side effect of being more resistant to surges.

If the worse does come around, and we loose say 75% of the network which in itself is insanely high a number, do you really think it will lead to the end of the world? Of course not, we already produce a world wide web that has thousands of redundant cables crossing over land as well as sea! Why... well we are breaking these wires fine enough on our own that we realized having a system where one erroneous ship could cut communication between the States and Europe was a dumb thing to happen the very first time it did.

Oh, by the way that black out between the two major continents, and all their financial institutions, was just a foot note in the news and didn't cause more then a few points of a drop in the stock market. *Gasp* really end of the world there.

Solar radiation is one of the most stupid 'end of the world on 2012' theories out there, second only to communication blackout... mixing the two does not make it a winning theory.

 

[GodofCider]

Lol.

We are hit by those every day of every week of every year. It does nothing.

People that believe this 2012 crap need to go check the calendar in their kitchen - mine ends this year! Guess we will die soon.

Indeed.

As a side note I'll add: considering that the international space station is reasonably outside of the the Earth's magnetic field, it's a wonder that the inhabitants, and more so the electronics, aren't continuously in need of replacement due to the nearby star.