Originally Posted by
Javelin
We have put our entire society in a fragile state with the reliance on Agro farming techniques and massive population centers that all require an energy grid. Should the grid fail gas pumps won't work nothing will move, no communication, not even a mail truck and grocery stores will be empty in a matter of a day with no hope of resupply even if farmers could possibly still turn a Monsanto crop that yields no seeds for next season.
Yep we would be done.
Few realize that it was the advent of the combustion engine that brought about humanity's population explosion. Modern farming implements and petro chemicals allow crops to sustain current population levels for the most part. Flip the switch on our antiquated power grid and we would see starvation on a Biblical scale.
Originally Posted by
aguila327
It was nothing to be worried about. Thats what our atmosphere is for. Too protect us from excessive solar emissions.
Not the atmosphere, but the Earth's magnetosphere. The magnetosphere is weakest at the poles, this is why we can see the effect known as aurora borealis.
There have been coronal mass ejections that have hit the Earth and penetrated the magnetosphere, The Carrington Event.
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