SCIENTIST SAYS CHANCES ARE VERY HIGH THAT A MAJOR SOLAR FLARE HITTING EARTH WILL WIPE OUT ALL TECHNOLOGY AND CIVILIZATION - Starvation and social chaos will ensue - Nuclear power plants will go into meltdown - The similar effects from an EMP weapon

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WATCH NASA Magnificent Solar Eruption:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrnGi-q6iWc

 

• Scientist says chances of a catastrophic effects from a major solar flare hitting Earth are very high.
• It would wipe out the electric grid and all electronics
• This would result in the end of civilization as we know it.
• All electronics would be fried:  from computers to bank machines to medical devices to satellites.
• Transportation, food processing and distribution, water treatment, just about everything we take for granted would be permanently and severely disrupted.
• Starvation would turn civilized people into savages, fighting for every morsel of food available.  Armed criminal gangs would roam the cities and the countryside.
• The worst and more lasting effects would be when nuclear power plants would go into meltdown, since they require outside electricity to function.  The radioactive poisoning of large areas of the continent would kill all life, including humans.
• The United States has NO CONTINGENCY PLAN in place to deal with either the immediate effects of a major solar flare, such as the loss of the electric grid, or the social chaos that would ensue.  None whatsoever, although the government knows that millions would die.
• A major solar flare could hit Earth any day.  The Carrington Event in 1859 caused hardly a ripple because civilization did not depend on electronics yet.  Life went on as usual.
• Many major solar flares occur all the time and so far they have been directed away from Earth.  But our luck won't last forever, and we are not prepared. 
• Similar to a solar flare in its effects would be a nuclear bomb detonated above the United States, which would also fry the electric grid and all electronics.  
• Solar flares and a nuclear attack of that sort are called electromagnetic pulse events, or EMPs. 

Continue reading, including suggestions for preparedness

WINDS OF 500 MILES PER SECOND AT NEWLY DISCOVERED HOLE IN THE SUN

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Coronal holes are regions of the sun's corona where the magnetic field reaches out into space

Particles moving along those magnetic fields can leave the sun rather than being trapped near the surface

Polar coronal hole can remain visible for five years or longer, although constantly changes shape 

Sun's coronal hole

 By Mark Prigg 

There were no fireworks on the sun to welcome in the New Year - and in fact, scientists say the end of the year was relatively quiet on the solar surface.

 

However, the sun has started 2015 with a mysterious event - a huge hole has appeared.

 

Known as a coronal hole, the phenomenon occurred near the south pole - and is seen as a dark area covered all of its base in these stunning images.

 

The incredible image was  captured on Jan. 1, 2015 by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows the coronal hole as a dark region in the south.

 

Coronal holes are regions of the corona where the magnetic field reaches out into space rather than looping back down onto the surface. 

 

Particles moving along those magnetic fields can leave the sun rather than being trapped near the surface. Those trapped particles can heat up and glow, giving us the lovely AIA images. 

 

In the parts of the corona where the particles leave the sun, the glow is much dimmer and the coronal hole looks dark.

A SOLAR FLARE COULD HAVE THROWN OUR WORLD INTO THE DARK AGES TWO YEARS AGO - It might get us next time. So what are governments doing to prepare? NOTHING - A major solar flare would destroy electronics and our power grid, and cause the meltdown of nuclear power plants

Solar flare almost blasted Earth back to the dark ages two years ago, NASA scientists reveal

Plasma cloud or 'CME' rocketed away from the sun as fast as 3000 km/s on July 23, 2012

Had the eruption occurred just one week earlier, the blast site would have been facing Earth

Direct hit could cause widespread power blackouts, disabling everything that plugs into a wall socket.

Total economic impact could have exceeded $2 trillion or 20 times greater than the costs of a Hurricane Katrina  

Read more
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2704676/That-close-Nasa-reveals-double-solar-superstorm-changed-life-know-2012.html

The real life scenario would be a lot worse

 

You will notice that the above article tries to present a major solar flare hitting Earth as one of those regular disasters we are getting used to.  More damaging, but survivable.

 

Not so.  Not for everyone.  The impact of losing our electronics would in the first place paralyze everything on Earth.  For example, most vehicles are computerized.  There would be no transportation, no movement of goods, supermarkets would run out of food.  Cities would be without drinkable water.  Policing would be in the hands of gangs and vigilantes.  Patients depending on medication would have none once supplies run out. 

 

Once our power grid is fried, there is no way to repair it or replace it.  Parts are not manufactured in America.  We would be in the dark for a very long time. 

 

Also keep in mind that aside from a large solar flare headed our way, an act of terror such as the explosion of a nuclear bomb in the atmosphere would also cause an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) effect with the same consequences for our electronics.

 

The most nightmarish part of this scenario is the inevitable meltdown of nuclear power plants.  NPPs need electricity to function. (continued)