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Originally Posted by Enchilada
Sorry. Absolutely the one biggest lot of codswallop I've read in sometime. 
Errors!! Worse there are more than a dozen errors in the article scanning through it. In the last few years New Scientist has gone a bit down-hill with more and more non-scientific speculation... so much for the scientific method.  This is not science, it is basically media hype not focussing on the facts but simple scare-mongering.
I will be definitely seeking out the original article, because it is certainly a cry for solar funding before the next solar maxima. What is more interesting, is nothing is said of the flares or the sun - only what the speculated effects on something that may or may not happen. (Pity there were few electrical devices around the the 1850s to measure it.)
The Carrington Event in 1856 was certainly dramatic, which was very well described in "Kings of the Sun" by Dave Sorbel (2007) - well worth the read.
(Read the comments after the article to see my view is here supports some agreement.)
Mostly utter nonsense!  |
Lol they do tend to go overboard, i mean if it's gonna happen it's gonna happen not much we can do about it so why do they constantly blow up a big hype about it, it would prob do the world good we rely on technology to much, people in future won't know how to grow there own food or fend for themselves, nor make there own clothes
cos china make all our clothes for us and the rest, might be a wake up call, if it even happens at all..