The Earth dodged a solar bullet in 2012

Displaced Bama Fan · Jul 25, 2014

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...orm-changed-life-know-2012.html#ixzz38TXraChJ

Scientists have revealed that Earth came perilously close to a solar storm that could have 'changed life as we know it', causing widespread power failures and knocking out GPS and communication networks.

On July 23, 2012, a plasma cloud or 'CME' rocketed away from the sun as fast as 3000 km/s, more than four times faster than a typical eruption.

Had the eruption occurred just one week earlier, the blast site would have been facing Earth, rather than off to the side.

cbi1972 · Jul 25, 2014

Surprised Congress did not draft a bill outlawing coronal mass ejections.

Bodhisattva · Jul 25, 2014

cbi1972 said:
Surprised Congress did not draft a bill outlawing coronal mass ejections.

I'm surprised Obama didn't decry GOP congressional obstructionism on fixing this crisis and issue an executive order demanding the sun attend a WH beer summit.

cbi1972 · Jul 25, 2014

If you like your functional electrical grid, you can keep your functional electrical grid.

mikes12 · Jul 25, 2014

It would have been awfully racist if the sun had done that during Obama's term.

Bamaro · Jul 25, 2014

Wow, didn't take long for this thread to totally go off the tracks. :eek2:

TideEngineer08 · Jul 25, 2014

I was thinking we could tax the sun for carbon credits.

Bodhisattva · Jul 25, 2014

Obama took credit for the solar storms missing the earth and declared the sun "unpatriotic."

Displaced Bama Fan · Jul 25, 2014

Bamaro said:
Wow, didn't take long for this thread to totally go off the tracks. :eek2:

One post. That may be a TF record.

mittman · Jul 25, 2014

Did we dodge it, or did it just miss? We need to do an expensive study to understand how the earth moves, accelerates or decelerates to avoid solar bullets. Does the earth have some sort of Matrix inspired ability to see the bullets in slow motion? We need to get our best scientists on this. It needs to be understood and they need something to study that we can pay for.

Elefantman · Jul 26, 2014

New tougher laws banning assault CME's will save us from any future occurrence.

Bama Reb · Jul 26, 2014

In a related matter, I narrowly missed having a serious accident when I was driving back from Dothan this week. Of course I drive down there every couple of weeks and every trip is different from the rest. Hence, I don't have time to worry about what almost happened, but didn't.

TexasBama · Jul 26, 2014

cbi1972 said:
Surprised Congress did not draft a bill outlawing coronal mass ejections.

Congress and mass ejections. Yep.

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