Many homesteaders have heard of the Carrington Event of 1859. This massive solar storm struck the very early wired telegraph grid, and was so intense that in some places, telegraph operators reported they could send messages even with their ...
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12 Hours Before The End Of The World? That’s All The Warning We’d Get Before A Solar Storm, Says New Report
Can you cram in 12 hours all the survival essentials you would need to save your family for several months? That’s all the warning you would have before a solar storm takes out the power grid, according to a new ...
Read More »NASA Scientist: Doomsday Event (That Could Kill 200 Million) Is Far More Likely Than We Thought
A solar flare does not have to possess an intensity as significant as the Carrington Event of 1859 in order to take down the entire US power grid, according to NASA scientist Lika Guhathakurta. The astrophysicist and heliophysics expert broke ...
Read More »How A Simple Solar Flare Could Doom America — And The World
“The eastern sky appeared of a blood red color,” wrote a resident of South Carolina’s Sullivan Island. “The sea reflected the phenomenon, and no one could look at it without thinking of the passage in the Bible which says, ‘the ...
Read More »NASA Spots Fast Moving Solar Flare
A coronal mass ejection (CME) was spotted by NASA on July 22. CME eruptions on the sun can cause billions of solar particles to hurl into space, impacting electrical systems here on Earth. The recent CME spotted by NASA’s Solar ...
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