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    Here is a cheery little article. Most of us already know the facts. Many go into denial.

    Anyway ... we don't need to use any "calandars" or rely on any "inbound bodies" for this to happen. It is a ticking timebomb ... not if ... but when.


    Solar flare could unleash nuclear holocaust across planet Earth, forcing hundreds of nuclear power plants into total meltdowns


    Tuesday, September 13, 2011
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
    Editor of NaturalNews.com



    (NaturalNews) Forget about the 2012 Mayan calendar, comet Elenin or the Rapture. The real threat to human civilization is far more mundane, and it's right in front of our noses. If Fukushima has taught us anything, it's that just one runaway meltdown of fissionable nuclear material can have wide-ranging and potentially devastating consequences for life on Earth. To date, Fukushima has already released 168 times the total radiation released from the Hiroshima nuclear bomb detonated in 1945, and the Fukushima catastrophe is now undeniably the worst nuclear disaster in the history of human civilization.

    But what if human civilization faced a far greater threat than a single tsunami destroying a nuclear power facility? What if a global tidal wave could destroy the power generating capacities of all the world's power plants, all at once?

    Such a scenario is not merely possible, but factually inevitable. And the global tidal wave threatening all the nuclear power plants of the world isn't made of water but solar emissions.

    The sun, you see, is acting up again. NASA recently warned that solar activity is surging, with a peak expected to happen in 2013 that could generate enormous radiation levels that sweep across planet Earth. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has even issued an urgent warning about solar flares due to strike in 2012 and 2013. IBtimes wrote, "With solar activity expected to peak around 2013, the Sun is entering a particularly active time and big flares like the recent one will likely be common during the next few years. ...A major flare in the mid-19th century blocked the nascent telegraph system, and some scientists believe that another such event is now overdue." (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/194...)

    The story goes on to explain:

    "Several federal government studies suggest that this extreme solar activity and emissions may result in complete blackouts for years in some areas of the nation. Moreover, there may also be disruption of power supply for years, or even decades, as geomagnetic currents attracted by the storm could debilitate the transformers."

    Why does all this matter? To understand that, you have to understand how nuclear power plants function. Or, put another way, how is nuclear material prevented from "going nuclear" every single day across our planet?


    Every nuclear power plant operates in a near-meltdown state

    All nuclear power plants are operated in a near-meltdown status. They operate at very high heat, relying on nuclear fission to boil water that produces steam to drive the turbines that generate electricity. Critically, the nuclear fuel is prevented from melting down through the steady circulation of coolants which are pushed through the cooling system using very high powered electric pumps.

    If you stop the electric pumps, the coolant stops flowing and the fuel rods go critical (and then melt down). This is what happened in Fukushima, where the melted fuel rods dropped through the concrete floor of the containment vessels, unleashing enormous quantities of ionizing radiation into the surrounding environment. The full extent of the Fukushima contamination is not even known yet, as the facility is still emitting radiation.

    It's crucial to understand that nuclear coolant pumps are usually driven by power from the electrical grid. They are not normally driven by power generated locally from the nuclear power plant itself. Instead, they're connected to the grid. In other words, even though nuclear power plants are generating megawatts of electricity for the grid, they are also dependant on the grid to run their own coolant pumps. If the grid goes down, the coolant pumps go down, too, which is why they are quickly switched to emergency backup power -- either generators or batteries.

    As we learned with Fukushima, the on-site batteries can only drive the coolant pumps for around eight hours. After that, the nuclear facility is dependent on diesel generators (or sometimes propane) to run the pumps that circulate the coolant which prevents the whole site from going Chernobyl. And yet, critically, this depends on something rather obvious: The delivery of diesel fuel to the site. If diesel cannot be delivered, the generators can't be fired up and the coolant can't be circulated. When you grasp the importance of this supply line dependency, you will instantly understand why a single solar flare could unleash a nuclear holocaust across the planet.

    When the generators fail and the coolant pumps stop pumping, nuclear fuel rods begin to melt through their containment rods, unleashing ungodly amounts of life-destroying radiation directly into the atmosphere. This is precisely why Japanese engineers worked so hard to reconnect the local power grid to the Fukushima facility after the tidal wave -- they needed to bring power back to the generators to run the pumps that circulate the coolant. This effort failed, of course, which is why Fukushima became such a nuclear disaster and released countless becquerels of radiation into the environment (with no end in sight).

    And yet, despite the destruction we've already seen with Fukushima, U.S. nuclear power plants are nowhere near being prepared to handle sustained power grid failures. As IBtimes reports:

    "Last month, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said U.S. plants affected by a blackout should be able to cope without electricity for at least eight hours and should have procedures to keep the reactor and spent-fuel pool cool for 72 hours. Nuclear plants depend on standby batteries and backup diesel generators. Most standby power systems would continue to function after a severe solar storm, but supplying the standby power systems with adequate fuel, when the main power grids are offline for years, could become a very critical problem. If the spent fuel rod pools at the country's 104 nuclear power plants lose their connection to the power grid, the current regulations aren't sufficient to guarantee those pools won't boil over -- exposing the hot, zirconium-clad rods and sparking fires that would release deadly radiation." (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/194...)

    Now, what does all this have to do with solar flares?


    How the end of modern civilization will most likely occur

    As any sufficiently informed scientist will readily admit, solar flares have the potential to blow out the transformers throughout the national power grid. That's because solar flares induce geomagnetic currents (powerful electromagnetic impulses) which overload the transformers and cause them to explode.

    You've probably witnessed this yourself during a lightning storm when lightning unleashes a powerful electromagnetic pulse that causes a local transformer to explode. Solar flares do the same thing on a much larger scale. A global scale, in fact.

    The upshot of this situation is that suddenly and without warning, the power grid infrastructure across nearly the entire planet could be destroyed. As a bonus, nearly all satellites will be fried, too, leaving GPS inoperable and causing millions of clueless drivers to become forever lost in their own neighborhoods because they never paid attention to the streets and always relied on a GPS voice to tell them, "In fifty feet, turn right."

    Communications satellites will be obliterated, too. This, of course, will halt nearly all news propaganda distribution across the planet, causing tens of thousands of people to instantly die out of the sheer fear of suddenly having to think for themselves. As another bonus, nearly all mobile phone service will be disrupted, too, meaning all the teenage text junkies of the world will, for the first time in their lives, be forced to lay down their iPhones and interact with real people in the real world.

    But the real kicker in all this is that the power grid will be destroyed nearly everywhere.

    What happens when there's no electricity?

    Imagine a world without electricity. Even for just a week. Imagine New York City with no electricity, or Los Angeles, or Sao Paulo. Within 72 hours, most cities around the world will devolve into total chaos, complete with looting, violent crime, and runaway fires.

    And if you think you can just drive away from the chaos, think again: The solar flare will fry all automobiles that rely on ignition electronics, which means probably 98% of the vehicles on the road today will be instantly rendered scrap metal (or plastic, as it turns out).

    But that's not even the bad news. Even if all the major cities of the world burned to the ground for some other reason, humanity could still recover because it has the farmlands: the soils, the seeds, and the potential to recover, right?

    And yet the real crisis here stems from the realization that once there is no power grid, all the nuclear power plants of the world suddenly go into "emergency mode" and are forced to rely on their on-site emergency power backups to circulate coolants and prevent nuclear meltdowns from occurring. And yet, as we've already established, these facilities typically have only a few hours of battery power available, followed by perhaps a few days worth of diesel fuel to run their generators (or propane, in some cases).

    Did I also mention that half the people who work at nuclear power facilities have no idea what they're doing in the first place? Most of the veterans who really know the facilities inside and out have been forced into retirement due to reaching their lifetime limits of on-the-job radiation exposure, so most of the workers at nuclear facilities right now are newbies who really have no clue what they're doing.

    There are 440 nuclear power plants operating across 30 countries around the world today. There are an additional 250 so-called "research reactors" in existence, making a total of roughly 700 nuclear reactors to be dealt with (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/i...).

    Now imagine the scenario: You've got a massive solar flare that knocks out the world power grid and destroys the majority of the power grid transformers, thrusting the world into darkness. Cities collapse into chaos and rioting, martial law is quickly declared (but it hardly matters), and every nation in the world is on full emergency. But that doesn't solve the really big problem, which is that you've got 700 nuclear reactors that can't feed power into the grid (because all the transformers are blown up) and yet simultaneously have to be fed a steady stream of emergency fuels to run the generators the keep the coolant pumps functioning.

    How long does the coolant need to circulate in these facilities to cool the nuclear fuel? Months. This is also the lesson of Fukushima: You can't cool nuclear fuel in mere hours or days. It takes months to bring these nuclear facilities to a state of cold shutdown. And that means in order to avoid a multitude of Fukushima-style meltdowns from occurring around the world, you need to truck diesel fuel, generator parts and nuclear plant workers to every nuclear facility on the planet, ON TIME, every time, without fail, for months on end.

    Now remember, this must be done in the middle of the total chaos breakdown of modern civilization, where there is no power, where law enforcement and emergency services are totally overrun, where people are starving because food deliveries have been disrupted (all the vehicles got fried in the solar flare, remember?), and when looting and violent crime runs rampant in the streets of every major city in the world. Somehow, despite all this, you have to run these diesel fuel caravans to the nuclear power plants and keep the pumps running.

    Except there's a problem in all this, even if you assume you can somehow work a logistical miracle and actually deliver the diesel fuel to the backup generators on time (which you probably can't).

    The problem is this: Where do you get diesel fuel?

    Why refineries will be shut down, too

    From petroleum refineries. Most people don't realize it, but petroleum refineries run on electricity. Without the power grid, the refineries don't produce a drop of diesel. With no diesel, there are no generators keeping the coolant running in the nuclear power facilities.

    But wait, you say: Maybe we could just acquire diesel from all the gas stations in the world. Pump it out of the ground, load it into trucks and use that to power the generators, right? Except there are other problems here: How do you pump all that fuel without electricity? How do you acquire all the tires and spare parts needed to keep trucks running if there's no electricity to keep the supply businesses running? How do you maintain a truck delivery infrastructure when the electrical infrastructure is totally wiped out?

    Some countries might be able to pull it off with some degree of success. With military escorts and the total government control over all fuel supplies, a few nations will be able to keep a few nuclear power facilities from melting down.

    But here's the real issue: There are 700 nuclear power facilities in the world, remember? Let's suppose that in the aftermath of a massive solar flare, the nations of the world are somehow able to control half of those facilities and nurse them into cold shutdown status. That still leaves roughly 350 nuclear facilities at risk.

    Now let's suppose half of those are somehow luckily offline and not even functioning when the solar flare hits, so they need no special attention. This is a very optimistic assumption, but that still leaves 175 nuclear power plants where all attempts fail.

    Let's be outrageously optimistic and suppose that a third of those somehow don't go into a total meltdown by some miracle of God, or some bizarre twist in the laws of physics. So we're still left with 115 nuclear power plants that "go Chernobyl."

    Fukushima was one power plant. Imagine the devastation of 100+ nuclear power plants, all going into meltdown all at once across the planet. It's not the loss of electricity that's the real problem; it's the global tidal wave of invisible radiation that blankets the planet, permeates the topsoil, irradiates everything that breathes and delivers the final crushing blow to human civilization as we know it today.

    Because if you have 100 simultaneous global nuclear meltdowns, the tidal wave of radiation will make farming nearly impossible for years. That means no food production for several years in a row. And that, in turn, means a near-total collapse of the human population on our planet.

    How many people can survive an entire year with no food from the farms? Not one in a hundred people. Even beyond that, how many people can essentially live underground and be safe enough from the radiation that they can have viable children and repopulate the planet? It's a very, very small fraction of the total population.


    Solar flares far more likely to hit nuclear power plants than tidal waves or earthquakes

    What's the chance of all this actually happening? A report by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory said that "...over the standard 40-year license term of nuclear power plants, solar flare activity enables a 33 percent chance of long-term power loss, a risk that significantly outweighs that of major earthquakes and tsunamis." (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/194...)

    The world's reliance on nuclear power, you see, has doomed us to destroy our own civilization. Of course, this is all preventable if we would only dismantle and shut down ALL nuclear power plants on the planet. But what are the chances of that happening? Zero, of course. There are too many commercial and political interests invested in nuclear power.

    So the power plants will stay, and we will therefore be vulnerable to a solar flare which could strike us at any time and unleash a global nuclear holocaust. Planet Earth has been struck by solar flares before, of course, but all the big hits in recorded human history took place long before the age of modern electronics, so the impacts were minimal. Today, society cannot function without electronics. Nor can nuclear facility coolant pumps. Once you realize that, you begin to understand the true danger in which humanity has placed itself by relying on nuclear power.

    By relying on nuclear power, we are risking everything. And we're doing it blindly, with no real acknowledgement of the dangers of running 700+ nuclear facilities in a constant state of "near meltdown" while foolishly relying on the steady flow of electricity to keep the fuel rods cool. If Fukushima, all by itself, could unleash a tidal wave of deadly radiation all by itself, imagine a world where hundreds of nuclear facilities go into a total meltdown simultaneously.

    A repeat of the 1859 solar storm -- called the Carrington Event -- would "devastate the modern world," admits a National Geographic article: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...

    What can you do about any of this? Build yourself an underground bunker and prepare to live in it for an extended period of time. (Just a few feet of soil protects you from most radiation.) The good news is that if you survive it all and one day return to the surface to plant your non-hybrid seeds and begin rebuilding human society, real estate will be really, really cheap.

    Especially in the radiation zones.


    Take this seriously! Read more from NASA

    http://www.space.com/12580-sun-unle...

    http://science.nasa.gov/science-new...

    From NASA:

    "Just before dawn the next day, skies all over planet Earth erupted in red, green, and purple auroras so brilliant that newspapers could be read as easily as in daylight. Indeed, stunning auroras pulsated even at near tropical latitudes over Cuba, the Bahamas, Jamaica, El Salvador, and Hawaii. Even more disconcerting, telegraph systems worldwide went haywire. Spark discharges shocked telegraph operators and set the telegraph paper on fire. Even when telegraphers disconnected the batteries powering the lines, aurora-induced electric currents in the wires still allowed messages to be transmitted..."

    "...as electronic technologies have become more sophisticated and more embedded into everyday life, they have also become more vulnerable to solar activity. On Earth, power lines and long-distance telephone cables might be affected by auroral currents, as happened in 1989. Radar, cell phone communications, and GPS receivers could be disrupted by solar radio noise. Experts who have studied the question say there is little to be done to protect satellites from a Carrington-class flare. In fact, a recent paper estimates potential damage to the 900-plus satellites currently in orbit could cost between $30 billion and $70 billion."


    Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/033564_so...#ixzz1Xp2J1Ysa

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    Looking forward to it!!! I might take that opportunity to "get lost" from society.

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    No doom and gloom with me, i will miss the internet though, especially this forum.
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    We don't need the NWO to give us depopulation. The sun will do it for them.

    We've gotten in over our heads as a species, and we are too proud to admit it.
    Just because I took the red pill, it doesn't mean that I washed it down with the koolaid

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    Quote Posted by WhiteFeather (here)
    No doom and gloom with me, i will miss the internet though, especially this forum.
    Not intended to promote doom and gloom.

    We are the stewards of the planet. This is something that *we* have brought upon ourselves.

    All the talk about "ascension" or "splitting of worlds" .... well if we are to take *responsibility* and try to bring humanity back into harmony with the rest of life on Gaia ... then this is a good example of something we should place a high priority on. Yes there are other issues to deal with as well but this is avoidable.

    Release FREE ENERGY NOW (as ulli's signature implies). Shut down all the nuclear technology while we still have time.

    Oh (the crowd laments) TPTB/W will never go for that.

    We (the *rest* of humanity) have *got* to come up with solutions and ways around the "controllers".

    Oh but the Galactic Federation of Light has their mothership right in back of elenin and besides ... even if we are wrong about that we will be *raptured* soon enough. We don't have to clean up our mess!!!


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    A giant space worm could appear out of nowhere and eat the Earth at any moment. Or a naziesque space empire could appear in orbit and start zapping us. Or a previously harmless virus might mutate and turn people in to zombies. I don't really see the point in concerning myself with things that I have no control over. Although I would quietly prefer zombies to no internet. Aslong as I had some kind of zombie survival strategy. And they'd have to be those traditional Romero slow moving zombies, not those modern 28 Days Later type.

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    G'day Calz_Avaretard,

    Excellent report to have caught.
    I agree with it and can not say long enough, or LOUD ENOUGH, that another Carrington-like Event would be devastating to humanity and life on this planet in general.
    All those who were/are worried about the Fukushima "event" and radiation drift (lets face it that's many here) should read this article carefully.

    Remember this is not a matter of if it happens but when it happens.
    May be not in cycle 24, though it looks as though it could head that way, but some time it will happen.

    So I don't view this as a "prediction" of doom and gloom.

    It is more a review of what to be aware of when it does happen.

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    The only consequence is what we do."

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    Quote Posted by Anno (here)
    A giant space worm could appear out of nowhere and eat the Earth at any moment. Or a naziesque space empire could appear in orbit and start zapping us. Or a previously harmless virus might mutate and turn people in to zombies. I don't really see the point in concerning myself with things that I have no control over. Although I would quietly prefer zombies to no internet. Aslong as I had some kind of zombie survival strategy. And they'd have to be those traditional Romero slow moving zombies, not those modern 28 Days Later type.
    Yes there are things we have no control over (at least depending on your take on "creating reality").

    Superwave heading our way from the Galactic Center or whatever ...

    This issue is different. We as a collective group of humanity has created this issue. No we cannot stop solar flares but we *certainly do* have the means to provide for all the energy needs of the planet without nuclear power and the potential problems it presents.

    (actually on an energetic basis we *do* have a connection with solar activity)

    Yes we have to come up with a way to work with (or around) those pesky world elite and their minions ... not suggesting that is not a challange. It is certainly within the realms of possibility.

    Here is a wonderful thread talking about these "possibilities" and I would suggest everyone who has not visited here do so ...

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ght=ralph+ring
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    A massive solar storm could keep us grounded on Earth for a decade

    It's decently likely that, sometime in the future, a major solar storm will hit Earth, wreaking havoc on our infrastructure and crippling our satellites. But there's a more long-term danger: space could become too dangerously radioactive to stay there.

    And some new research indicates that we could face a situation that keeps us from exploring space, within our lifetimes.

    While we haven't sent humans beyond low-Earth orbit in close to forty years, we've carved out quite a niche for ourselves in the area of space directly around our planet. The International Space Station provides a constant human presence in space, and we've built up a massive network of satellites that are crucial to our communications infrastructure, not to mention navigation, scientific research, weather monitoring, and a bunch of other things.

    What allows us to keep humans and all that sensitive electronics up there is the presence of huge clouds of plasma, which extend out to a few times Earth's radius and provide a buffer zone against cosmic radiation. Without this protective cloud, electromagnetic waves could form, which would send deadly radiation bursts into the space above Earth.

    The problem is that this cloud can be destroyed if a big enough solar storm hits it. Recent Sun activity in October 2003 caused the cloud to contract to just two times the Earth's radius, and scientists believe that a huge solar outburst in 1859 completely destroyed the protective layer. Of course, there weren't nearly as many communications satellites up in space in the mid-19th century, so that didn't have nearly as big an impact as the destruction of the cloud would if it happened today.

    According to new research from UCLA, a big enough solar storm would form a belt of dangerous radiation right on the edge of low-Earth orbit. This would place astronauts and satellites alike at the mercy of electromagnetic waves and dangerous radiation. The researchers calculate that this belt would persist for at least a decade before the plasma cloud began to reassert itself.

    In that time, the belt would drastically reduce the lifespan of satellites. It's an open question whether it would be safe for astronauts to remain in the International Space Station - the answer probably depends on the level of severity of the solar storm. It might also pose some complications for any planned missions beyond low-Earth orbit. Admittedly, that's not something we have to worry about right now, but hey...the solar blast could happen in the 2040s, by which time we might just be ready to return to the Moon or something.

    Anyway, lead researcher Yuri Shprits suggests that installing thicker shielding around satellite electronics could stave off some of the problem. But the fact is, space really is a dangerous, inhospitable place, and for all the challenges and occasional tragedies we've endured while exploring it, so far space has been pretty easy on us. One big solar storm could change that for the foreseeable future.

    http://io9.com/5839967/a-massive-sol...h-for-a-decade

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    either that, or they would have to "discover" technologies that are capable of sending us up there despite the radiation.......

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