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When Is The Big One Going To Get Us?
Posted on 7/24/14 at 5:26 pm
Posted on 7/24/14 at 5:26 pm
Solar flares. Yellowstone erupting. Nukes. Asteroids.
Within the next 20 years?
Anyway, we dodged a biggun a couple of years ago...
"How a solar storm two years ago nearly caused a catastrophe on Earth"
"On July 23, 2012, the sun unleashed two massive clouds of plasma that barely missed a catastrophic encounter with the Earth’s atmosphere. These plasma clouds, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), comprised a solar storm thought to be the most powerful in at least 150 years.
“If it had hit, we would still be picking up the pieces,” physicist Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado tells NASA."
"Analysts believe that a direct hit … could cause widespread power blackouts, disabling everything that plugs into a wall socket. Most people wouldn’t even be able to flush their toilet because urban water supplies largely rely on electric pumps.
According to a study by the National Academy of Sciences, the total economic impact could exceed $2 trillion or 20 times greater than the costs of a Hurricane Katrina. Multi-ton transformers damaged by such a storm might take years to repair."
LINK
Within the next 20 years?
Anyway, we dodged a biggun a couple of years ago...
"How a solar storm two years ago nearly caused a catastrophe on Earth"
"On July 23, 2012, the sun unleashed two massive clouds of plasma that barely missed a catastrophic encounter with the Earth’s atmosphere. These plasma clouds, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), comprised a solar storm thought to be the most powerful in at least 150 years.
“If it had hit, we would still be picking up the pieces,” physicist Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado tells NASA."
"Analysts believe that a direct hit … could cause widespread power blackouts, disabling everything that plugs into a wall socket. Most people wouldn’t even be able to flush their toilet because urban water supplies largely rely on electric pumps.
According to a study by the National Academy of Sciences, the total economic impact could exceed $2 trillion or 20 times greater than the costs of a Hurricane Katrina. Multi-ton transformers damaged by such a storm might take years to repair."
LINK
Posted on 7/24/14 at 5:28 pm to beejon
Guess I better buy that quiet Honda EU2000i now,
Posted on 7/24/14 at 5:29 pm to beejon
quote:cosmic permaban
The Big One
Posted on 7/24/14 at 5:29 pm to beejon
quote:
within the next 20 years
People have a tendency to think doomsday will happen in their lifetime. It won't, sorry
Posted on 7/24/14 at 5:30 pm to TheIndulger
quote:
People have a tendency to think doomsday will happen in their lifetime. It won't, sorry
Well eventually someone will be right
Posted on 7/24/14 at 5:30 pm to TheIndulger
Sooner or later, one generation is gonna be right about it though.
Edit: Goddamnit!
Edit: Goddamnit!
This post was edited on 7/24/14 at 5:32 pm
Posted on 7/24/14 at 5:35 pm to TheIndulger
Not really. I think we'll be long gone before a natural disaster wipes out earth
Posted on 7/24/14 at 5:35 pm to TheIndulger
It will happen in someones lifetime though. A more accurate statement would be, "statistically it won't happen in your lifetime".
Posted on 7/24/14 at 5:42 pm to CRAZY 4 LSU
Id rather just tell the people in my lifetime that it won't happen in their life time.
"You won't win the powerball" suffices for "statistically, your odds of winning are very low"
"You won't win the powerball" suffices for "statistically, your odds of winning are very low"
Posted on 7/24/14 at 5:42 pm to beejon
quote:
Asteroids
No problem, we can just send some roughnecks up to take care of that.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 5:44 pm to CBLSU316
quote:that's what I call offshorequote:No problem, we can just send some roughnecks up to take care of that.
Asteroids
Posted on 7/24/14 at 5:45 pm to beejon
Disease from BARRY'S Kids will kill you before any bomb.those Damn disease laden Mayan grunts will be the soft war vector that kills Americans.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 5:46 pm to Kafka
Now something that wipes out all our power is entirely possible in our lifetime..
Posted on 7/24/14 at 5:47 pm to beejon
Obama's president. How much worse can it get?
Posted on 7/24/14 at 5:50 pm to beejon
It's actually happening tomorrow. Hope you didn't have any big plans for the weekend.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 5:51 pm to blackmouth
quote:
blackmouth
Do I need to show you where the poli board is?
Posted on 7/24/14 at 5:53 pm to TheIndulger
Go indulge yourself ... I answered a question.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 5:57 pm to beejon
i read up on the solar flares awhile back and while it's a vulnerability, a hit wouldn't necessarily mean the worst possible outcome. Power companies are also more aware of this than ever and can turn the switch off if there's real danger, which would leave them unharmed.
Yellowstone is the other one i worry about and that too is not necessarily as bad as it's made out to be. An eruption wouldn't automatically mean catastrophe by *could* under certain circumstances. The statistical likelihood of it happening though is pretty low and it takes 500 years for the magma to fill the chamber up enough to blow on an apocalyptic level. We don't know for sure this isn't happening but there are no signs that it is happening either.
Asteroids, especially at this point where we have identified almost all of them, is extremely unlikely anytime soon.
Nukes I worry about but not so much a traditional exchange as much as a terrorist setting one off in Manhattan or something.
Yellowstone is the other one i worry about and that too is not necessarily as bad as it's made out to be. An eruption wouldn't automatically mean catastrophe by *could* under certain circumstances. The statistical likelihood of it happening though is pretty low and it takes 500 years for the magma to fill the chamber up enough to blow on an apocalyptic level. We don't know for sure this isn't happening but there are no signs that it is happening either.
Asteroids, especially at this point where we have identified almost all of them, is extremely unlikely anytime soon.
Nukes I worry about but not so much a traditional exchange as much as a terrorist setting one off in Manhattan or something.
Posted on 7/24/14 at 6:00 pm to blackmouth
Your answer was so politically charged it was hard to understand. Are you saying the human race will die out after we get diseases from Mexicans because of Barack Obama?
This post was edited on 7/24/14 at 6:01 pm
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