World Wide Power Grids Could Be Knocked Out
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But we need NASA for muslim outreach and to transfer all of our technology to our enemies, right?
Everyone worries about solar max but what they should be worred about are CMEs (coronal mass ejections) like the one last week that was pointed directly at the earth. Those bad boys can literally push aside our magnetosphere leaving us exposed to every kind of radiation running around out there. A really big CME could cause a very bad day here.
But this is ET so how can we profit from this calamity?
Thing that are in demand during solar max or CME are UPS, power transformers, broadband EMI filters, land-lines and of course tin foil for hatmaking.
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But this is ET so how can we profit from this calamity?
This is serious stuff! This is a real possibility. Imagine no electricity for weeks or months. Anywhere! Fuel, food, water and everything we take for granted would become scarce.
The best thing you can do is build yourself a stockpile of food and water at the very least.
Oh, and there is water elsewhere in the universe and food can be grown or synthesized on other planets. IMHO
lol.
Another earth-killer that nobody worries about are GRBs (gamma ray bursts). They are extremely common in the universe, they are very directional (tight beam) and they are the most energetic events in the universe hands-down. If a real GRB hit the earth we would be incinerated before you could say "oh shit".
Its a barrel of monkeys out there, non-stop fun lol.
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The Sun is great fun and is a virtual ATM for me.
As a young guy I worked on commercial and classified communications satellites and spent time at remote locations doing in-orbit comm payload acceptance testing for vehicle handoff to customers. Later at university I got involved with small larmour radius oscillatory gyration of electrons running up and down magnetic flux lines in particle accelerators.
Later I started trying to make money and got called in to fix a sat comm problem. These guys were launching commerical rockets from a launch platform in the middle of the pacific (on the equator at 154-deg West). They had advertised that they had 24-hour launch capability but they were experiencing long duration comm outages between the launch platform, command ship and a pair of Intelsat comm sats comprising a WAN to Moscow, Eik, Dnepropetrosk and their Long Beach home port.
I went out with them and found two bands of ionospheric scintillation that run right on either side of the geomagnetic equator. As the vessels crossed these areas on the way to the launch site the shipboard sat comm systems could not track the Intelsat beacon because it was fluctuating in amplitude over 10dB. During the solar max in the late 90s the comm outages would extend all the way to the launch site. I got so I could predict the outages and they gave me a television channel on the command ship where I depicted looping movies made from still images of JPL projections for ionospheric instability, you could watch it in your cabin lol. The USAF gave me a grant and then supplied some equipment so they could monitor the scintillation as it was not well known previously. It turned out to be related to the gyrating electrons I worked on in school.
I made wheelbarrows of money on that. Solar Maximum is my friend.
Nice. I do the same thing in finance, while I trade cash for stock and back to cash into my account