Will the "World as we know it" End Soon?

It could, indeed, according to many experts.  The signs are all there. 

Better be prepared, just in case.

In Five Days the World (As You Know It)  Could End 

(Now in less than five days)

Thanks to the Author: Stephen Alexander
Published in Technorati.com: November 03, 2011 at 9:32 pm

If you woke up in five days and there was no electricity, no internet, no cell phones, what would you do? As for me, I'll answer that question at the end of this article. But why worry, it's not going to happen. But it could and I'll explain it briefly.

In five days, a large “benevolent monster” of a sunspot is turning to face the Earth. The most active part of the entire sun since 2005. And “it's still growing,” according to Jess Whittington, a forecaster at the federal Space Weather Prediction Center. This “benevolent monster” of a sunspot will only be facing our planet for two weeks.

The consequences of this is dire, if you only understand what happens if this “benevolent monster” of a sunspot unleashes it's full fury upon our small planet. Let's go back in time to 1859.

From August 28 until September 2, 1859, the earth faced a similar scenario such as what is occurring in five days. On September 1, 1859, the largest flare came unleashed a coronal mass ejection straight at the Earth. And just 18 hours later, the largest recorded geomagnetic storm hit the Earth.

In Boston, the light was so bright that even at 1:00 AM, people could read the newspaper without any other light sources around them. The currents in long Telegraph wires in both the United States and Europe experienced induced ElectroMagnetic Force. Fires broke out in the telegraph offices and even shocked the telegraph operators. Auroras were seen in Hawaii, Mexico, Cuba and Italy. This was the 1859 solar superstorm.

In five days, the electric grid to the United States could be virtually destroyed in the northern Half of the United States. With 130 million people without electricity for 4 to 10 years as 350 transformers are destroyed. The entire Alaska Pipeline could erupt into a fireball. All land line telephones could be destroyed.

So in five days, if a solar superstorm such as the one that hit the Earth in 1859 hits the Earth again, then I'll calmly sit back and open my Bible and read it under the 1:00 AM lights.

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From Wikipedia:

Magnetic storm

On September 1–2, 1859, the largest recorded geomagnetic storm occurred. Aurorae were seen around the world, most notably over the Caribbean; also noteworthy were those over the Rocky Mountains that were so bright that their glow awoke gold miners, who began preparing breakfast because they thought it was morning.^[4] According to professor Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, "people in the northeastern U.S. could read newspaper print just from the light of the aurora."^[5]

Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases even shocking telegraph operators.^[6] Telegraph pylons threw sparks and telegraph paper spontaneously caught fire.^[7]Some telegraph systems appeared to continue to send and receive messages despite having been disconnected from their power supplies.^[8]

Some comments from the original Technorati site:

Levi H

I have worked in the Power Industry for 35 years, I am an intrumentation engineer. I can assure with out a doubt that if our power grid ever went completely down we could NEVER get it back up. Think about it...how would we start it back up? Nuclear power plants require 50 million watts to start one up, where will it come from? Coal plants require 12 million watts, where will it come from? Hydro plants? Where will the field voltage come from? The grid was started over a century ago in New York City with a small diesel generator and was band-aided together over the years. By the time iyou got the grid back up this country would be in shambles.

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Rick

I appreciate what you are saying. Unfortunately, the layman who is not in a related field just can not comprehend the damage it would do or the magnitude of the repairs required.

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Fritz

This is one of those scenarios where the outcome is so bad no one would want to deal with it , so it's being ignored. I've lived without electricity for years, it's a lifestyle no one I know with the exception of a handful of people are prepared to live. It was especially bad in the summer in the south . The winter was only bad because we had to heat our shower water. Food storage is allot of fun too.

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Mark Goldes

Excellent article! See the Aesop Institute website for a lot more detail and some maps.

71 nuclear plants are in the areas NASA views as most vulnerable. After a month without grid power they become meltdown candidates.

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