Surprise! CME (Coronal Mass Ejection from the sun) hit earth with no forecast warning.

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[–]quantum-step 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They clearly need to pay a lot more in taxes to stop the sun. -democrats probably.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Get ready for the big one.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I read the title as 'coronal mass erection'.

[–]brimshae 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Well, for some people reading is hard.

[–]Alphix 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The big one sends us back to the Bronze Age. For good.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

The reason it was not forcast was because it couldn't be used to fear monger the way all other CMEs are. If they had fear mongered with this one even the normies would realize they were lied to after the fact. All the stories you hear about massive destruction "if they hit earth" is bullshit. When they do hit earth nothing happens.

InB4 hur der it wasn't the big one.

[–]Alphix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Dude. Do you have any idea how many CMEs we get per week, month, year? Just today, we're getting two solar impacts. Most of them are known to be not scary at all, but there are some truly scary ones. There was one about a month ago, luckily it was aimed in the direction opposite Earth.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The great geomagnetic storm of 1859:

"...is, arguably, the greatest and most famous space weather event in the last two hundred years." "A significant portion of the world’s 200,000 km of telegraph lines were adversely affected, many of which were unusable for 8 h or more which had a real economic impact." "At its height, the aurora was described as a blood or deep crimson red that was so bright that one 'could read a newspaper by.'"

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5215858/

Back in the 1800s they did not have the microelectronics that keep today's world going. They had telegraphs though, and they were damaged. When an event of this magnitude happens again, the side of the world hit will be plunged into darkness.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You are just repeating the same old alarmist propaganda. None of that supports the claim that there will be significant damage, let alone catostrophic damage like is being claimed.

Telegraph wires were extremely primitive and delicate. They had extremely long expanses of unsheilded wires strung accross the country. It was literally the perfect setup to collect any em and still it only had them "unusable for 8 hours". Not permanent damage, a fucking delay in service. The way the propaganda, which is clearly intending to maximize the percieved impact, is written suggests that it was something as mild as static on the lines.

Today everything has to be sheilded from EM because every bit of the planet is blasted with radio signals, tv signals, bluetooth, Wifi, shortwave, and and all kinds of random em from welders and transformers. Those old telegraph setups wouldn't work in this environment either.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The way the propaganda, which is clearly intending to maximize the percieved impact

How could anyone profit from that kind of propaganda? Can the rulers of this world make money from people realizing they are helpless to defend themselves against a strong CME hurled at them from the sun? And if a strong electromagnetic field is a non-issue to civilians, then why did the military invest in EMP weapons?

If the sun does not fry the electronics first, then an EMP by man will.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't need to pretend that I can read the minds of other people. All I need to do is look at the facts and realize it's bullshit.

I bet you believe that tbe emp from a nuclear blast will destroy all electronics, right?

But nuclear tests were literally recorded by electronic devices and there is absolutely zero evidence of any electronic devices being destroyed by any of those em blasts. And no, spare me the bullshit excuses you can pull out of your ass like "they were specially sheilded." That's pure bullshit people make up when faced with facts that contradict their beliefs. There is video shot from consumer camcorders of the soldiers watching the bikini atoll blast, so close they died from radiation, and the camera didn't miss a frame.

It does not matter why they are lying.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If someone is lying, there is a motive for taking a risk of being caught. If a motive cannot be found, they could be telling the truth.

Rewind to 2003:

The U.S. Air Force has hit Iraqi TV with an experimental electronmagetic pulse device called the "E-Bomb" in an attempt to knock it off the air and shut down Saddam Hussein's propaganda machine, CBS News Correspondent David Martin reports.

The highly classified bomb creates a brief pulse of microwaves powerful enough to fry computers, blind radar, silence radios, trigger crippling power outages and disable the electronic ignitions in vehicles and aircraft.

Source: cbsnews.com