Sun acting up.......

[chicot60]

http://i.imgur.com/3uCNwPR.gif

[Gates07]

there was a recent show on i think the history channel about the sun flares on how it could very easily effect the world and the power grid as we know it, something to be concerned about

[Terryl]

One large coronal discharge (CME) or massive solar flare directed at us would/could wipe out anything with an IC chip or even take down our total power grid world wide, we would be set back to the...

[swanner]

would we be protected if we had a heads up to turn everything off till after the event, would that help save atleast some electronic things?

[bellxvue]

A severe geomagnetic storm struck Earth on March 13, 1989. It occurred during solar cycle 22 and caused a nine-hour outage of Hydro-Québec's electricity transmission system.

[Terryl]

Nope, turning the high tech stuff off will do no good to protect it, the very very small transistor to transistor junctions in almost every electronic device out there and the very small copper...

[Terryl]

Admin's this is a good subject, maybe a new section for disaster survival would be a better place to talk about this.

[Terryl]

http://i.imgur.com/3uCNwPR.gif

Also this does not show the scale of this flare, about 200 Earths or more can fit inside the loop of fire you see coming up from the Sun, so does that make you feel a bit small??