What if everything electronic died? Fried completely, never to work again? It looks kinda likely

[mythicdawn12]

http://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-preparedness/top-physicist-says-solar-flare-would-set-us-back-100-years_08192010

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/10mar_stormwarning/

An nuclear weapon detonated over a country would release an electromagnetic pulse that would fry any and all electronics not protected by some kind of insulation. But, that's if someone had the resources and balls to launch a nuke. A solar flare massive enough to bowl right through our planets protective magnetic field would do much the same. The usual nansy pansy flares that reach our planet are swept aside easily by our magnetic field, preventing us from roasting. But the thing is, the Sun has been eerily quiet about all of this lately. It should be coming out of an eleven year Sun cycle, and it's not. And with all that built up tension, shit is ready to blow. Solar flares that act like world wide EMPs.
I hope that it's a hoax, or that they're all wrong. But can you imagine what that would be like? No food driven to our grocery stores or water pumped to our houses and apartments?

 

[SimuLord]

Sweet freedom from our over-connected, social-coercion, technology-addicted society. I would finally be able to relax secure in the notion that if someone wanted my attention, they'd have to get it in person.

I'd love it.

 

[lacktheknack]

Well... shit.

Ruin my evening, why don't you.

Sweet freedom from our over-connected, social-coercion, technology-addicted society. I would finally be able to relax secure in the notion that if someone wanted my attention, they'd have to get it in person.

I'd love it.

Well... I'd be concerned about the water pumping, furnace, and transportation.

Especially the furnace. I live in Canada, after all.

 

[Blue_vision]

IT WILL NOT HAPPEN. Sorry to rain on the doomsday parade, but these scenarios paraded around as plausible are just getting annoying.

And if it does happen, big fucking tragedy. You don't have cars to drive you everywhere. I'll be celebrating the possibility of a renaissance in society, and delivering fresh organic produce on my bicycle.

EDIT:

Sweet freedom from our over-connected, social-coercion, technology-addicted society. I would finally be able to relax secure in the notion that if someone wanted my attention, they'd have to get it in person.

I'd love it.

Yeah, basically that.

 

[Bruin]

From what I understand, this article is based off of a theory, based off of the ideal conditions for global catastrophe.

And the projected date it will all happen is too convient for it not to be a far-fetched and not very likely event.

It doesn't look all that likely to me. I'm not worried about it.

 

[sharkinz]

I am no physicist but couldn't we just rebuild our electronics? Or get someone like Cole from inFamous to recharge everything?

 

[LongAndShort]

That would suck. I like my car and would like it to keep running.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

It would probably happen like this...just sayin

 

[mythicdawn12]

An estimated 90% mortality of the human population if this happens. I mean, think about it. In a normal persons week, they go to the grocery store once, to stock up for that week. Stores only stock enough food for three days or so? Doesn't matter, they don't have storage for anything more in the back. There would be no food after only a few days, especially if people decided to ransack the place. Mass starvation, cannibalism, looting.
There are a lot of people in the world, and most of them don't know how to grow their own food.

 

[Double A]

So, even if this theory doesn't warrant a tin foil hat, big deal, we have people who know how to build this stuff, it's not like electricians are electronic.

 

[Last Bullet]

I thought I read something about this (possibly on this site even) a while back, and it was dismissed because even if it happened the "blackout" would be temporary. Perhaps I'm wrong, or I'm thinking of something else.

We'd just rebuild. Shit might go down because people will freak, but hopefully we could get the "essentials" up and running again.

And if not, before it happens, point a nuke at the sun and tell it to calm down if you're so worried about it.
[sub]Somewhere, someone will read this and take this comment seriously.[/sub]

 

[Double A]

An estimated 90% mortality of the human population if this happens. I mean, think about it. In a normal persons week, they go to the grocery store once, to stock up for that week. Stores only stock enough food for three days or so? Doesn't matter, they don't have storage for anything more in the back. There would be no food after only a few days, especially if people decided to ransack the place. Mass starvation, cannibalism, looting.
There are a lot of people in the world, and most of them don't know how to grow their own food.

Cans.

That is all.

 

[mythicdawn12]

From what I understand, this article is based off of a theory, based off of the ideal conditions for global catastrophe.

And the projected date it will all happen is too convient for it not to be a far-fetched and not very likely event.

It doesn't look all that likely to me. I'm not worried about it.

God I hope so. But NASA seems to be concerned. I'm not sure, are they credible?

http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/world-news/2010/06/08/nasa-issue-warning/will-solar-storm-cause-blackouts-on-earth.html

 

[Sacman]

looks like my room is getting a healthy coating of lead...

 

[default]

I'm sure I could very happily live in an electronic-free society. People would have to care for others a lot more, and re-assess some very basic values they disregarded before.

 

[Wardnath]

/rebuild everything
/point
/lol

Granted, it might take a while, but yeah.

 

[viranimus]

And how long is it going to wipe out electronics? A week, a couple months? a year?

We are already seeing some of the activity. We had a moderate blast back in July as I recall that allowed the aurora to be seen as far south as northern Ohio. Outside of the light show, not much else happened.

Im sure we would get bigger blasts, but Its not going to be as catastrophic as what people might think. Sure inconv. for a period of time, but civilization isnt going to fall to complete and utter ruin.

Ill say this. Just so long as someone backs up the wikipedia servers in a shielded environment, when the juice starts to flow again, all will be back to normal

 

[Bruin]

From what I understand, this article is based off of a theory, based off of the ideal conditions for global catastrophe.

And the projected date it will all happen is too convient for it not to be a far-fetched and not very likely event.

It doesn't look all that likely to me. I'm not worried about it.

God I hope so. But NASA seems to be concerned. I'm not sure, are they credible?

http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/world-news/2010/06/08/nasa-issue-warning/will-solar-storm-cause-blackouts-on-earth.html

It's NASA's job to be concerned.

They're issuing a warning. And I'm not saying it can't physically happen, only that there's a very high likelihood that it won't. But that's not NASA's job. NASA's job isn't to say "This isn't a threat", because it is a threat. Near Earth asteroids are a threat. Comets we can't even see coming are a threat. Certainly solar storms are a threat as well.

But it's not one I'm worried about. It's as much of a threat as a 13 year old boy who finds daddy's pistol after listening to Nirvana. It's somebody with the ability to destroy another person. But what are the odds of that actually happening?

And this:

?Space weather forecasting is still in its infancy, but we?re making rapid progress,"

Let me rephrase what I said earlier: A theory based on ideal conditions for global catastrophe based on science that's in its infancy.

 

[Blue_vision]

I am no physicist but couldn't we just rebuild our electronics? Or get someone like Cole from inFamous to recharge everything?

Yes, but that'd require tonnes of investment. And the problem in an EMP is that it actually fries circuits, meaning they're only usable for recycling. So you'd need to totally rebuild every piece of electrical technology on the planet, without having any electrical technology to use yourself.

 

[Composer]

It would probably happen like this...just sayin

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