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Subject What is this telling us? Solar flare impact?

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http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/21jan_severespaceweather/

[i]To estimate the scale of such a failure, report co-author John Kappenmann of the Metatech Corporation looked at the great geomagnetic storm of May 1921, which produced ground currents as much as ten times stronger than the 1989 Quebec storm, and modeled its effect on the modern power grid. He found more than 350 transformers at risk of permanent damage and 130 million people without power. The loss of electricity would ripple across the social infrastructure with "water distribution affected within several hours; perishable foods and medications lost in 12-24 hours; loss of heating/air conditioning, sewage disposal, phone service, fuel re-supply and so on."
"The concept of interdependency," the report notes, "is evident in the unavailability of water due to long-term outage of electric power--and the inability to restart an electric generator without water on site."[/i]

When a storm like the 1921 storm, or even worse an 1859 Carrington Event. Certain parts of North America will be in a neo-dark age.

Yep, I'm not an expert on these matters. It is at the upper limits of my scientific and engineering knowledge. However, I am rapidly educating myself and prognosis is very poor. Imagine 25-50 million dead in a matter of weeks.
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Scary thought isn't it? Cannibalism would become a major concern IMO
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Plasma filament hitting us in the next couple or few days, or is this something else?

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