Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Obama wants schools to speed digital transition

Obama wants schools to speed digital transition

Basically, if you click on the news word button above, Obama wants to convert to E-books from paper ones for all public schools in the U.S. Now, this would be a really good idea if it weren't for two basic things. The first potential problem is that we are in a heavy Coronal Mass Ejection Cycle and so it is remotely possible that everything electronic on earth or just some electronic things might not work anymore. Or, the second problem would be if there were a big enough EMP over the U.S. which could wipe out everything electrical including computers, and E-books and Ipads and smartphones. However, even if all this happened most books would remain and still be there to read that were paper. So, though I think it is a noble idea in peacetime, it might not be useful if there is some kind of war or magnetic storm generated by the sun. So, likely we need mostly e-books, but with enough paper copies so at the very least each teacher has a paper copy. So, a ratio of 1 paper book to 30 e-books would likely be good in case of  potential emergencies.

Onboard Radar in Passenger Jets?

Avionics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Military aircraft had become flying sensor platforms, and making large amounts of ... On-board communications are provided by public address systems and aircraft intercoms. .... The military uses radar in fast jets to help pilots fly at low levels. end quote from Google regarding Wikipedia and Avionics.

I have been researching lately CME's (Coronal Mass Ejections) from the sun and their effects on GPS satellites and co-ordinates worldwide. One of the things I found out is that often a GPS Satellite turns upside down during a magnetic storm when it thinks the poles have shifted during the storm. When it is in the wrong direction likely it cannot accurately send GPS information as a result of this. All GPS satellite positioning need three satellites to triangulate a position anywhere on earth within 3 feet in accuracy for hikers (with GPS devices), all cell phones on earth, planes, ships and some cars and trucks.

During last weeks Magnetic storm caused by a level 3 CME from the sun it was said that instead of 3 feet of accuracy GPS anywhere worldwide could have been  reduced to within 30 feet accuracy instead of 3 feet. And I was thinking that during some IFR landings of passenger jets 30 feet just wouldn't be good enough. It also might not be good enough to dock a large ship in the fog in a port. So, I was thinking that passenger airliners might need their own radar on board that could tell them not only if they were near another aircraft but also how near the ground is when landing. Because scientists say we might be having up to one largish CME per month until the end of 2013. This potentially could save a lot of lives if passenger planes all had their own on-board radar for emergencies like when GPS fails for one reason or another or when pitot tubes freeze over and give incorrect airspeed indications. This becomes even more important when on autopilot when computers are flying the plane because computers might not be able to distinguish unusual changes or to know what to do with strange readings that may or may not be accurate thereby precipitating a real emergency. 

Later: After doing more research I found that though passenger jet planes have radar usually on board, they are severely limited under which conditions they can navigate while using it. So, it might be important to make sure that when a magnetic storm is going on that they have more leeway to figure out whether they are 3 feet from the runway or 30 feet from the runway. In landing this is a very big difference.

Food Crisis Threatens Millions in Niger

Food Crisis Threatens Millions in Niger

If you read the news article at the above word button you will read about how approximately 3 million people will possibly face starvation or death in Niger between now and August. The price of food has risen 25 to 35 percent and since there has been a major crop failure that helped precipitate this rise in the cost of food likely many will starve and die between now and when the next big set of crops are harvested in August. However, unless the weather is better for growing food that crop won't be there either.

M3.6 Solar Storm on Feb. 30th 2011

The Advantages of Being Shy

There is a Time magazine Cover and article about this out right now and so I thought this might be a good time to share my experiences of being shy. Of course I had another advantage in addition to being shy I was always very tall for my age, so the combination of being one of the tallest in my class always and being fairly shy always protected me in various ways. I can see that now looking back now.

First of all being shy can protect a person from a whole lot of dangerous people. Extroverts often say things that they shouldn't around dangerous people and then wind up with teeth knocked out as a result or worse. Whereas a shy person might (because they aren't talking) be sizing up all the people around them to ascertain whether any of these people are even safe to be around or if they are women if they are available for dating or whatever. So, shyness can be a distinct advantage in regard to both safety and looking for a mate.

In my own case because I was always tall by age 15 I was 6 foot 1 inches tall and by 21 I was 6 foot 4 1/2 inches tall. So, if I was around girls my age or older I would always listen to their problems like an older brother or friend rather than verbally accost women like many other guys I knew who were definitely extroverts would. My methods were almost always effective in gaining the trust of all the women I met, young or old. My mother used to say when I was 16. "You are a quiet nice boy 16 years old." I sort of liked this way of thinking because it was also true. So while I watched other boys offend women by being too aggressive I always wound up with one or more of the girls who confided in me their problems. This began when I was about 15 and continued until I was 25 and got married and had a son. I still found that I counseled my friends because I was always a very common sense person while also being very intuitive. Also, since I was an only child I always felt sort of lonely in this sense and helping others also seemed to help me with my problems and I felt healed as I helped others grapple with their problems and helped many friends and acquaintances move away from suicide, especially before age 25 when most people give up the idea of ending it all for one reason or another.

So, by being shy one can often work through their own problems by having enough time to think about things and not going into things half cocked like many extroverts tend to do and wind up injured or dead. Being shy one can often survive things that extroverts could not or would not because shy people tend to be more thoughtful about everything they do. They also tend to be more kind to others because they tend to have more sensitive and thoughtful natures. Shy people can tend to become writers because of the capacity for introspection which many extroverts might not have developed because they were always out partying and getting into trouble. So, I would say that there are advantages and problems with both being an extrovert or shy. But shy people tend to survive and extroverts often perish because they often take risks that they haven't thought enough about to survive. 40% of the heads of large companies tend to define themselves as shy people.

Also, just because people are shy doesn't mean that they also can't be dangerous, aggressive or take risks. It's just that shy people might take different types of risks than extroverted people would. For example, Shy people often are musicians, actors, rock climbers, stunt pilots, surfers, motorcycle enthusiasts, pilots, world travelers etc. They are just less likely to put themselves into ongoing extreme social situations all the time. They will tend to pick and choose carefully what social situations they will allow themselves to endure, unless those situations are required by their chosen livelihood or spouse or other extenuating circumstances.

There is even a historical label for this kind of person, "The Strong Silent Type" which typifies someone who is skilled and well qualified for any emergency or situation and who is not in the least interested in "Tooting his or her own horn"  verbally but mostly just interested in "Taking Care of Business" in whatever business or activity that might be on Earth or beyond. However, tooting your own horn does extend into writing for a shy person in a manifold of ways.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Senate clears way for vote on insider-trading ban

Senate clears way for vote on insider-trading ban

This actually might help the perception of Congress by the common person in the U.S. and around the world. Since there don't appear to be any insider trading bans against congress in any way it has been perceived for some time that this is one of the reasons rich people or people who want to become rich as Congressmen or Women try to get elected. If Congress actually passes this in both houses and since I believe the President has promised to sign this if it passes it cannot but help to lift the polls a little bit for Congress and to make people feel Congress is listening to the people a least a little bit.

Surviving by the Grace of God

Some of the things I write my daughter and once in a while my old friend think are "a little goofy". But from my point of view I'm never goofy, but what life puts us through to survive is almost always goofy. Looking back at my life I'm really grateful and amazed that I survived it at all. So, if sometimes what I write might seem a little goofy at times, my point of view is that, "I learned to write pretty good by age 9 and found that I could survive Childhood Blunt Trauma Epilepsy just fine without any medication (because my Dad wouldn't let me take Phenobarbitol) which is a terrible drug anyway, if I just kept putting down my thoughts and feelings as I hovered through suicidal thoughts thinking that I wouldn't make it through the next night time seizure. Though I only had Blunt trauma childhood epilepsy from ages 10 to 15 when my skull grew enough to relieve the pressure on my brain in the back where I had fallen backwards off a rock onto the back of my head while rock climbing with my Dad when I was about 8 or 9 years old. So, the post traumatic stress disorder of blunt trauma epilepsy left me one day about a year after I really found God the Day that I (during a scream as I started to enter another night time seizure)  invoked God into my life and body to live with me permanently. By the way the moment I did this I never had another seizure ever not even that night in my whole life. So, by traumatically permanently invoking God into not only my life but to live with me permanently in my body, EVERYTHING changed in a way I cannot ever completely explain in any useful way to anyone. Suffice it to say I have never been the same person since. For a long time I was afraid of God living in my body with me. I sort of felt like I had a big strong Tiger by the tail and as long as I held on for dear life to that tail I might live. It went on like this until I was in my early 30s when I met my first Tibetan Lama in Ashland, Oregon. I walked into the room and suddenly I was two places at once physically. In one physical reality I was walking into the room with about 100 people for an initiation of the Thousand Buddhas Empowerment or (The Sword which Pierces All Defilement) and the other physical place I was simultaneously was likely several hundred years ago wearing a loincloth some place like Tibet in the Springtime or summer because the flowers were blooming. The Lama said to me, "You don't belong in any church. You are a Yogi that does research for all religions and people's on earth." At the time this made perfect sense to me as I was pretty discouraged with all Religions at that point in my life. However, when I split into two people and experienced two realities as real as one I knew I was with people I could relate to and with. Because up until this time my supernatural abilities were too much for most people. There are a lot of fakes around and I have met a lot of them that make a living while being fakes. However, I learned that because I wasn't a fake that I had to live by completely different rules than fakes do. So, what I learned is this: "Whatever you know you are then responsible for knowing!" What this means in real time is that if you know things that other people don't know you must be very careful with that knowledge. In other words, "To those who are given much much is expected." So, I have had to learn to be very careful with all the wisdom and knowledge that God has Graced me with. However, for most people it takes years to learn all this. So, if you are able to understand what I'm talking about you are already ahead of the game and your lives will be the better for it.

Wires up the back side of Half Dome not for the Faint of Heart

This is a picture of what climbing half dome looks like now(between May and October most years) when the weather is good. What is really amazing to me is that most people to get to this point have already walked 7 miles from their car or bus stop (at least 14 miles round trip in one day for most people). When I last did this as training for going to Nepal in 1985, there were only about 25 to 50 people that would have been in this photo rather than 1200. To get to this point you usually have to hike up to Vernal Falls and then towards California Nevada Falls before you reach this point. And be sure that you don't get vertigo from heights because my wife and several others were having a hard time not falling off from the exposure of about 1200 feet of vertical rock or more at a 35 to 45 degree angle or more, and 400 feet of wire which is there from about May to October which seems almost straight up when you are on it. And often you see people who really should not be on a vertical surface ever doing this being dared by a friend or relative which could turn out to be fatal in the end potentially for both. Don't let anyone talk you into it if you don't have the skills. Even though it is only a class 4 type of climb with wires to hold onto so you don't fall off, most people aren't roped in. What this means in real time is if you make a mistake and slip for any reason you are dead. Most focused climbers from ages 18 to 60 in good health might laugh at this type of exposure. However, if you have a problem for whatever reason you are dead at this point unless someone catches you which is unlikely. Note: Picture is from a news article online called: 1200 is a crowd on Half Dome.

2nd note: Be sure to make a reservation with the National Park Service because it sounds like they are starting to limit how many can ascend per day now. Obviously, if there is lightning rain or snow it wouldn't be a good time to do this. Also, I believe in the winter they remove the wires and vertical posts during that time and likely re-install them during the spring or later.

1st quote (besides picture) (This is from Backpacker Magazine online regarding how dangerous this wire up to Half Dome is:

Exhibit A Rescuers had to rappel 800 feet to recover the shattered remains of Japanese hiker Hirofumi Nohara, 37, who cartwheeled 1,200 feet down Half Dome's sheer face into the granite ravine below after trying to squeeze past hikers ahead of him on the cables. Alas, the fatality didn't surprise park employees, who've seen people do many stupid things to earn their "I climbed Half Dome" T-shirts. "We see people taking risks [to claim one] that they might not ordinarily take," says ranger Scott Gediman. In 1985, five hikers defied signs of a pending storm and marched up Half Dome only to get blasted by lightning. Last year, three hikers in three separate accidents fell to their deaths from Half Dome's upper reaches; two had attempted the route when the cables were down, and they lost their footing on the wet granite. On crowded weekends when hundreds of hikers clog the cables, it's impossible to make a fast exit when storms threaten. Says Gediman, "I've been on the cables when they were so packed with people I couldn't move up and couldn't move down–it became real dangerous."

Also, my first time Climbing Half Dome was in 1969 (when I considered myself to be a fairly good  Rock Climber) at age 21 with a friend who was 18 and who had just graduated from high school and was on his way to UCLA in the fall, we  were in a  a Rock Climber's Camping area then near El Capitan. We then got up and had breakfast at Yosemite Lodge Cafeteria and took off up the Mist Trail near Camp Curry by 9 or 10 am. So even though we were young and strong climbers because we also really enjoyed nature and the views and taking plenty of pictures along the way, wound up getting on top of Half Dome around 2 PM and stayed up there until about 4 pm. But because it was a long way down back to my car near Camp Curry we headed out knowing we would pass most of the scarier parts of the trail by sundown. Because it was summer time I think sundown could have been as late as 8 or 9 pm. However, because of the really high canyon that most of Yosemite is night falls pretty early even during Daylight Savings time Summers there. So, the sun comes up late and goes to bed early in most of Yosemite Valley. So, if you are prepared for the sun, altitude and 7 miles up and  7 miles back (14 total miles) and can keep your wits about you while climbing up and down the wire and don't fall off the front edge while on top it can be one of the most amazing experiences of your life!

You Can't Eat a Computer

California fuels rule sparks controversy

My son and I were discussing the above article that starts with the word button "California fuels..." and his response was "You can't Eat a Computer" which basically means that even though computers are fun and kind of addicting, in the end they are in the same category as a television or a radio. They are entertainment, and no matter how much fun they might be you can't eat them. In other words unless you have a job or an income they are only entertainment. So, the California fuel rules controversy is that the rules here in California were designed before the Great Recession, during which time people might have economically had enough money to actually comply with these rules. For example I was driving north towards the Bay area from Santa Barbara where I was on business. I said to my wife, "I'm amazed! There must be about 1/4 the cars I've ever seen on any Sunday if it were before 2008 traveling up Hiway 101 north.

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So by reducing the carbon in fuels the hope was to create less carbon in the sky by moving people away from Gasoline to hybrids and electric cars and fuel cell cars and Hydrogen powered cars. But the reality is that the present Unemployment rate in California is 11.1 % And this rate if adjusted for all the people working part time who want full time jobs or who have given up looking for work might take this rate up to 15% or even 17% for the state to be realistic about who isn't employed or fully employed. And this doesn't even give you kids 15 to 20 who can't even get their very first part time job because people over 20 years old already have them. Under these conditions and the fact that the average car in the U.S. is now 10.8 years old (which is the oldest the average car has EVER been in history) it isn't a very good time to be changing fuels. However, on the other hand Oil is on its way out over the next 25 years and because of that the price of oil can only go up because that is just the Law of Supply and Demand. When everyone wants something that there is not enough of the Price can Only go UP! So, because of this switching fuels isn't an option, it is a necessity if  we want civilization to continue here on earth. Because of this the most sustainable culture in the U.S. is actually the Amish culture in Pennsylvania because they are NOT an Oil based culture. This is all something we all should be thinking about if we want civilization to continue.

Also, I would say that if you look at both the Tea Party and the Occupy movement, both movements are the direct result of rising oil prices, Global Climate Change and reduced food supplies making food cost more just like Oil is costing more worldwide. I would also say that the Arab Spring which has brought down countries all across the middle east is also a part of reduced oil and reduced food and a burgeoning young population in those areas.

It is important to address the real needs of the 99 percent

We appear to be at yet another crossroads of history here in the U.S. It concerns me as Occupy Camps get shut down in cities across the U.S. that it will just be seen as "Complete Disenfranchisement" by many of the 99%. This doesn't really help anyone and only angers those without jobs or money or a place to stay or the ability to get married and raise a family even more. Without useful actions that result in jobs it is illogical to think that the Occupy movement is going to go away and not just get angrier by the day instead. I fear for our democracy at times like these that we presently live in. However, if our democracy could weather the Great Depression, World War II, World War I, the 1800s and the late 1700s, likely we will find our way through all this as well.

U.S. Banks European Credit Default Swap Exposure


Since the U.S. Government now appears to be demanding from U.S. Banks to know their exposure through Credit Default Swap exposure (insurance deals) towards the European Banks and European debt exposures, and since this likely will be public knowledge (at least to investors and potential investors in these banks, it should get very interesting the next few months in regard to all this.

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Hey Santa: Who Stole my Horn?

Picture of a baby Reindeer in the Cairngorm mountains near Aviemore, Scotland

Word Buttons

I have for some time been quoting articles as long as I gave credit to the site from which it came originally. However, things have been changing lately on the Internet in case some of you haven't noticed. When Megaupload was shut down a message was sent to everyone on the Internet that things were changing. Not necessarily changing for the better but changing never the less. More and more of us need to think about protecting our own best interests. Even though many like myself are mostly interested in directing attention to issues that appear to need attention for human ongoing survival here on earth. Other people are motivated sometimes (Only by Money) and not by any principles at all it seems. So, as the Internet morphs and becomes something less desirable to all of us, it might be more important to protect ourselves during this change. In the same way many young people are moving to Twitter to have a more anonymous experience away from Facebook right now, maybe many of us bloggers need to concern ourselves with content. And though it might be okay to place word buttons of articles we want to comment about, maybe it is time not to directly quote from those articles at our websites online. This is my thought today. I'll have to think more about it in the future. If I decide to continue to operate in this new way I will only publish photos that I or someone in my family have personally taken and only publish word buttons to direct people to articles that I am commenting on. Time will tell. I need to think more about this.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Purple Delta 7 on CME's

Once again if you are interested to learn more who Purple Delta 7 is please read:
Purple Delta 7

The above site on Purple Delta 7 has a record of most of the things I have written about her since she first appeared in "The Protectors" which is also at the dragonofcompassion.com website which is my archive site.

The Coronal Mass Ejection happened this week and Jonathan Flow had a headache from the Solar Storm as it hit earth. He really wished it would get over because being an intuitive it was a lot like having all the radio stations that he listened to through his intuitive mechanisms turn into what seemed like a whole lot of static. Now, he also sensed what might be called a "Quickening" of all life on earth through this mechanism as well and realized that all life was being changed in a variety of ways through what we call a solar storm. He understood that what we call a solar storm might be called something different by the sentient life form that actually is the sun. It might be called Something like "The quickening of all life on earth" or even "The quickening Dragon's breath from the sun" or something else interesting and exotic and life affirming like that".

However, just about then the front door rang and an incredibly beautiful woman was standing there and said, "Guess who I am?" Jonathan was just taken aback and had no idea who this woman was or what she was here for, especially because she was as beautiful as the most beautiful woman you might ever see in a movie and from the look in her eyes was incredibly intelligent too. Seeing that Jonathan was confused by why she was here and starting to get a little worried she finally started laughing and said, "I"m Purple!" Don't you recognize me, I'm your bodyguard." Jonathan sighed relieved it was only Purple playing games with him to keep him on his toes now at 63.

Jonathan smiled and said, "Come on in, Purple. What's going on?" She said, "Did you experience the Solar Storm as they call it here on earth?" Jonathan said, "Yes. It sort of felt like I had a headache and was listening to a lot of static." Purple said, "Yes. I long ago programmed one of my thousands of strings of consciousness to be a duplicate exactly of yours." Jonathan looked at her and said, "OH. YOu have an emulator of my physiology to know when I'm in distress and might need help?" Purple looked at Jonathan and said, "Yes. And if you died I would simply repair you and bring you back to life without you knowing anything happened." Jonathan felt chills moving up his spine a little at this thought but had had to get used to all this kind of stuff since he first met the Galactic Sentience in 1970 when he was 22. It is actually amazing what you can get used to if you have to and have no other realistic choice in the matter. It's sort of like waking up one day and finding out that grizzly bears live your neighborhood and that you will have to watch out for them and adapt to them for the rest of your life. It isn't a small thing but it can be done.

"So, Purple what do you think of the Solar Storm and all that?"
Purple said, "Well. It concerns me that there will eventually be an event that wipes away human hard drives."
Jonathan looked worried and said, "You think we might all forget everything we know?"
Purple: "Yes. This could be very problematic. It might not kill anyone physically but if the jamming of the neural mechanism of brains on earth was intense enough it could wipe all human hard drives or brains clean as well as all animals and creatures."

Jonathan said, "So, what you are worried about is the end of human civilization?"
Purple said, "It has happened before to other cultures."
Jonathan: "Here on Earth?"
Purple: "Yes."
Jonathan: "Why didn't you tell me this before?"
Purple: "This kind of stuff is on a need to know basis."
Jonathan: "Could People who were deep enough into the earth not be affected by a solar storm in this way?"
Purple: "Yes. That is possible. But how many might be there? 100. 1000. 10,000 at most. And how would they deal with humans that just forgot who they were? There is an instinctual programming found in all creatures including humans that would then kick in. But in the end only less that 100,000 to 500,000 humans might survive in this form the way things presently are on earth."

Jonathan: "So, it would go back to cave man days and the re-invention of culture and civilization and maybe one day if there weren't another event like this we would re-emerge thousands of years from now."
Purple: "It takes about 10,000 years usually."
Jonathan: "So this really has happened before."
Purple: "Yes. I'm afraid so."

Jonathan: "But what are the actual odds of this happening to us?"
Purple: "Well. Let me see if I calibrate what has happened here on earth and go back about  1 million years I can calculate the odds. Here it is: 'There is only a 1 in 10,000 odds of this happening in the next 100 years. But there is a 50-50 chance that within the next 300 years that most all electrical and electronic equipment will be totally wiped out on earth.' "
Jonathan said, "Well. That's pretty scary."
Purple: "Yes. And this is the problem. Have you noticed that big box stores are slowly being replaced by companies like Amazon.com and others?"
Jonathan: "Yes."
Purple: "Well. As long as the Internet exists somewhat in the form like it is worldwide now this will only get more this way as time goes on, at least until there is no more oil."
Jonathan: "Yes. I understand this."
Purple: "Well. Eventually there will be no physical teachers at all because it will be much cheaper for every country to have its own sentient robots or computer sentients to teach on TV or online(or a series of familiar teachers on a forum resembling Sesame Street or something like that."
Jonathan: "So, what you are saying is that if there is a Solar Flare when the only people left trained to teach are computers and robots that when a level 3 solar flare or a level 5 or above Solar Flare occurred it could wipe out the computer teachers and likely all above ground electrical and electronic technology which might at that time be as if people would be children without their parents (at least as far as education and understanding the universe goes).
Purple: "Yes. Did you see that Big Bang Theory program on TV where Raj falls in love with the voice recognition software on his SIRI Iphone?"
Jonathan said, "Yes."
Purple: "Well. Imagine if you thought you could marry someone like me and that we would breed and have kids and so on and so on."
Jonathan said ,"That isn't really possible is it?"
Purple: "No. Not in your age and era of technology but it does become possible within 1000 to 2000 years if your civilization doesn't go extinct before then."
Jonathan: "I'm starting to short out trying to fathom all this, Purple."
Purple: "Yes. Emotionally is is likely difficult to deal with this much reality and be living in a human body and talking about your own human civilization here on Earth."

Jonathan: "So, what is the likelihood of Humans being okay 30,000 years from now if they don't prepare for all this?

 Purple: "You mean survive like they are now without having their minds eventually wiped clean along with all electrical and electonic things on earth wiped out as well?"
Jonathan: "Yes."
Purple: "Close to zero. However, since you are writing about this someone will get it and start preparing for the inevitable and maybe a way or ways will be found for civilization to survive this kind of thing intact."
Jonathan: "So that is why you are telling me all this?"
Purple: "Yes."

Jonathan: "But doesn't telling me this so I will write about it change the future and doesn't that break some kind of code or something?"
Purple: "Well. I can talk about probabilities about things you and I both might be concerned about. But I can't tell you exactly what will happen in any given future."
Jonathan: "Define 'Any given future'".
Purple: "Well. As far as you and I are concerned there may be one future that the Galactic Sentience will authorize and an almost infinite host of other alternate futures that will not exist very long in the grand scheme of things."
Jonathan said, "Well. I assumed it was something like this. After all, otherwise why would you destroy a solar system or a galaxy unless it was  to restore order by going back in time to stop yourself destroying the solar system or galaxy once you had made the necessary corrections to the time space of the solar system or Galaxy?"
Purple: "Exactly!"
Jonathan: "So what you are actually saying to me is that you don't want the human race  to go extinct. So, you are telling me to watch out for Coronal Massive Ejections because that could end Civilization on Earth."
Purple: "Yes. And I don't want life on earth to go extinct either."
Jonathan: "But at least in regard to Coronal Mass Ejections what is there you could do to stop that?"
Purple: "You'd be surprised."

A Super Solar Flare: 1859 The Carrington Event

 So far this is the best source for the Carrington Event which happened in 1859. Besides being able to read a newspaper outside at night directly from the Aurora Borealis ANYWHERE ON EARTH during the event, many telegraph operators were electrocuted while on duty and their paper near them to write down telegrams on was set on fire as the arcs of electricity came off their lines from the flare. Begin quote.

A Super Solar Flare

And what then?
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NASA's Future:US Space Exploration Policy 
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It is this type of CME event that happened in 1859 that might be the most troubling for humans on earth and all electrical or electronic technology. The fact that it only happened 153 years ago means that it could happen again at any time, especially during between now and the end of 2013 or during the peak of any future Solar Cycle of events.

By the way the picture that they talk about damaging the camera that took the picture above in 2006 was milder than the one we just experienced this week. The one this week was the largest CME since the 2003 Halloween event.

Also for universities and governments researching these types of events the following repeat of the above quote might be useful:"In the 160-year record of geomagnetic storms, the Carrington event is the biggest." It's possible to delve back even farther in time by examining arctic ice. "Energetic particles leave a record in nitrates in ice cores," he explains. "Here again the Carrington event sticks out as the biggest in 500 years and nearly twice as big as the runner-up."

Here is a repeat quote dealing with cost estimates caused by a Carrington like event in the future:"Experts who have studied the question say there is little to be done to protect satellites from a Carrington-class flare. In fact, a recent paper estimates potential damage to the 900-plus satellites currently in orbit could cost between $30 billion and $70 billion. The best solution, they say: have a pipeline of comsats ready for launch." end repeat quote from above.

Solar Flares Could Cripple Earth's Tech Infrastructure in 2013

Solar Flares Could Cripple Earth's Tech Infrastructure in 2013


Solar Flares Could Cripple Earth's Tech Infrastructure in 2013

Solar Flares Could Cripple Earth's Tech Infrastructure in 2013Solar weather runs in cycles, and the current cycle is expected to peak in 2013.NASA is calling the flare medium-sized and the biggest one seen in the last five years, but it's nothing compared to something called the "Carrington Event" in 1859, a huge solar flare that set telegraph machines on fire and produced an auroral glow in many parts of the world bright enough to read by. Even when telegraph operators disconnected their batteries, "aurora-induced electric currents in the wires still allowed messages to be transmitted," according to a NASA historical account.

NASA Footage of the June 7 Solar Flare


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Though this story was written in 2011 about a much weaker Solar Storm than we just had, it is important that designers of electrical technology of all kinds think about what a Class 5 Coronal Mass ejection might do to their hardware, wherever it is installed. Those who find ways to mitigate CME potential problems might still be in business after 2013 and those who don't might not. What is the liability, for example, if a company's electrical or electronic part fails and 1 or more people die even if it is caused by a Coronal Mass Ejection? I don't know the answer to this but likely we will find out more about this during the next few years. If you consider the following true story it is definitely something to think about regarding CME's.

On June 4, 1989, a gas pipeline explosion demolished part of the Trans-Siberian Railway, engulfing two passenger trains in flames and killing 500 people.
Unlike the Siberian pipeline, the Alaskan oil pipeline built during the mid-1970s is a newer technology specifically designed to minimize corrosive currents now well known to modern pipeline engineers. end quote. So a Coronal Mass ejection was the direct cause of the deaths of 500 people when it exploded a pipeline and engulfed 2 passenger trains in Russia in 1989. 

The Quebec Blackout of 1989 caused by a Solar Storm

Chapter 1 : A Conflagration of Storms


it is not Hydro-Quebec's fault"

[Hydro-Quebec, 1989].




























 TTo read more please go to :http://www.solarstorms.org/SWChapter1.html


I think it is worth repeating the following quote from above: 
