12-19-2009, 06:52 PM
I couldn't help but res this from the dead. I find it amusing. I've looked after a lot of data on this and the only threat that posses the earth is of course the solar switch of the sun, which in return will send a blast of cosmic radiation towards us- as it does every 11 years. 1895 (59?) a big one happened and knocked out telephone communications for awhile. It is only now that we figured out what it was. The Sun. With that said after reading many Astro Physicists' papers and videos they say if we do get knocked we could be out of power and all data/radio and power for a few months. Doesn't seem that bad. Doesn't scare me the bit. The only nations effected by this will be data reliant countries. 3rd world countries will go on about their business as they have for thousands of years. All in all, kind of funny yet struck fear in me at first. The world will not end.