 |
 |
Nasa warns solar flares from 'huge space storm' will cause devastation
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: France
Status:
Offline
|
|
Gods? The sun is going to kick our arses !!!!
|
|
XBL : Ze Veteran
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Calgary
Status:
Offline
|
|
From the article (well below the sensationalist headline)
large swathes of the world could face being without power for several months, although he admitted that was unlikely.
A more likely scenario was that large areas, including northern Europe and Britain which have “fragile” power grids, would be without power and access to electronic devices for hours, possibly even days.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator  Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Copenhagen
Status:
Offline
|
|
Pffft. Up here, we don’t need no stinkin’ solar storms to do that. Just regular old storms knock out our electricity for hours and days no problem.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Isle of Manhattan
Status:
Offline
|
|
Maybe we could build a giant umbrella made of lead, then have someone carefully hold it over the earth during the storm.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: France
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Wiskedjak 
From the article (well below the sensationalist headline)
Don't know how much you were impacted by the recent volcanic activity, but just by having airports shut down, things were 'interesting' in Europe for a few days. I imagine that having no radar, air traffic control, limited phone comms etc might also be 'interesting'. I seem to recall a large swathe of the US being blacked out a few years ago. I doubt that the insurance companies would classify that event as minor or sensationalist.
|
|
XBL : Ze Veteran
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Copenhagen
Status:
Offline
|
|
If something of this scale hit Northern Europe and the UK, I don’t think many, if any, insurance companies would pay up. Especially not since the little Eyjafjallajökull débâcle, where quite a few Northern European insurance companies actually did pay up ex gratia.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Feb 2005
Status:
Offline
|
|
Will this fry computers and hard drives?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Washington, DC
Status:
Offline
|
|
I smell another Roland Emmerich movie!
|
"One ticket to Washington, please. I have a date with destiny."
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Eternity
Status:
Offline
|
|
I smell a steaming pile of shit.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Isle of Manhattan
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey
I smell another Roland Emmerich movie!
Please, no. Someone should stop that man.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Feb 2005
Status:
Offline
|
|
Seriously.
Would this wipe out magnetic media?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Vacation.
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by tightsocks
Seriously.
Would this wipe out magnetic media?
No, because the RF cage you've got built into your computing room walls will protect magnetic media from such incidences.
|
|
Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Feb 2005
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Doofy
No, because the RF cage you've got built into your computing room walls will protect magnetic media from such incidences.
In my apartment?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Vacation.
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by tightsocks
In my apartment?
Don't say you haven't got an RF cage in your apartment. How on earth do you expect to stop the government from snooping on you if you're not in an RF cage?
|
|
Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Copenhagen
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Doofy
Don't say you haven't got an RF cage in your apartment. How on earth do you expect to stop the government from snooping on you if you're not in an RF cage?
I don’t have room for an RF cage. My RDF cage takes up all the available space.
Does anyone know if it’s safe to put RF cages inside RDF cages?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Vacation.
Status:
Offline
|
|
You should rebuild the RDF cage so it's smaller, then build the RF cage just outside it (a couple of cm away). That'll do the trick.
|
|
Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
Status:
Offline
|
|
Hey Doofy, would you mind coming and building that RF cage in my home.
Thanks mate, I owe you a beer. 
-t
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top
