....Scary

dee1949
dee1949 Posts: 1,425
edited July 2014 in The Clubhouse
....Thank you Mother Nature

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/07/23/how-a-solar-storm-nearly-destroyed-life-as-we-know-it-two-years-ago/?tid=pm_pop
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  • mark090852
    mark090852 Posts: 996
    edited July 2014
    Yikes!
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,011
    edited July 2014
    Maybe that was what all those predictions were about the planet going poof in 2012. Lucky for us they were off by a week. Actually all things considered, they were pretty accurate given the tools at hand.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,464
    edited July 2014
    tonyb wrote: »
    Maybe that was what all those predictions were about the planet going poof in 2012. Lucky for us they were off by a week. Actually all things considered, they were pretty accurate given the tools at hand.


    Agreed... and I must say, given that piece of news, I am more worried about stuff like this than I am global warming. Before all you GW/Climate Change gurus go nuts in that, I want to be clear that I am NOT saying we don't need to become smarter about taking care of the planet, rather just pointing out that there are other things out there that pose a far greater danger to us. Yes w can and should do better, but lets not forget that the Sun does a pretty fair job of global warming all by herself.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,689
    edited July 2014
    The sun brought us into this world and the sun will take us out of this world...One way or another.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,990
    edited July 2014
    ...would it have been more or less newsworthy if the word "nearly" in the title weren't applicable?
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  • scottyboy76
    scottyboy76 Posts: 2,905
    edited July 2014
    Like so many dangerous scary things, is not that image beautiful.
    humpty dumpty was pushed
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  • kdblove_99
    kdblove_99 Posts: 107
    edited July 2014
    That's crazy stuff!
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