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Post by Springschick on Jan 13, 2023 9:21:01 GMT -5
Regardless of how it happens, I do believe that every species has it's time, including ours. Not that it's anything to fret about, because if it happens, it happens. Like if the super volcano in Yellowstone erupts full bore, I am pretty sure that that is a non-survivable event for me where I am, but I do not spend any time worrying about it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2023 9:34:32 GMT -5
The Carrington event. Telegraphs
The following conversation occurred between two operators of the American telegraph line between Boston, Massachusetts, and Portland, Maine, on the night of 2 September 1859 and reported in the Boston Evening Traveler:
Boston operator (to Portland operator):"Please cut off your battery [power source] entirely for fifteen minutes."
Portland operator:"Will do so. It is now disconnected."
Boston:"Mine is disconnected, and we are working with the auroral current. How do you receive my writing?"
Portland:"Better than with our batteries on.– Current comes and goes gradually."
Boston:"My current is very strong at times, and we can work better without the batteries, as the aurora seems to neutralize and augment our batteries alternately, making current too strong at times for our relay magnets. Suppose we work without batteries while we are affected by this trouble."
Portland:"Very well. Shall I go ahead with business?"
Boston:"Yes. Go ahead."
The conversation was carried on for around two hours using no battery power at all and working solely with the current induced by the aurora, the first time on record that more than a word or two was transmitted in such manner.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
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Post by sauerkraut on Jan 13, 2023 14:22:30 GMT -5
All that’s needed to destroy most of our civilization is a huge solar flair like the Carrington event of 1854. Back then it just destroyed a bunch of telegraph equipment, today it would probably destroy our power infrastructure. It would be very bad. Yes but it was in 1859, NOT 1854. Today it would be a real mess all the space satellites would be ruined, and that's our cell phones knocked out!! IMO we're too dependent on computers when we need not be- why does everything from flood control dams to street lights have to be computer controlled? Back when things were analog we all got along fine. Analog controls are also safer when it comes to hackers!
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Date Joined: Sept 16, 2012 13:59:47 GMT -5
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Post by sauerkraut on Jan 13, 2023 14:24:48 GMT -5
WoW those videos of the California floods are something else, I never seen such a mess, they get it all in California, floods, mudslides, rockslides, wildfires and earth quakes. Who ever said it never rains in Southern California got that part wrong.
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