1 NASA issues warning of solar superstorm 2012 Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:42 pm
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the resulting havoc to the economy and society.
The US would be slammed into an electronic Doomsday.
That gloomy report went under-reported and unheeded by the governments of the world. Now NASA is desperately trumpeting the danger and still most politicians turn deaf ears towards the warning and blind eyes towards the angry sun.
How severe is the threat?
People in the first world countries rely heavily upon technologies at risk from solar storms—a technology that runs financial systems, electrical power grids, water plants, air travel, farming, transportation, GPS navigation of aircraft and sea going vessels…even the daily operation of government at all levels.
During a solar superstorm most communication will be blasted out of existence; power will fail. Cities will be left without light and water and food will run out. Civil unrest will surge as society collapses in a matter of days. The US federal and state governments will be hard-pressed to restore order amongst 300 million people as mass starvation sets in and sources of fresh water dwindle.
One billion could die
Restoration of the infrastructure could take years—even a decade or more. During the interim more than a billion people could die worldwide—more if warfare breaks out between countries desperate for scarce resources.
Michio Kaku adds his voice to the warnings
World renown American astrophysicist Dr. Michio Kaku, Professor of Theoretical Physics in the City College of New York of City University of New York and the co-founder of string field theory, is worried about a potential catastrophe and has joined in NASA's warning.
Appearing recently on FoxNews, Kaku said, "We're talking about a potential Katrina from space."
But Kaku sees the disaster as 10 times greater than Katrina-perhaps even worse than that. "We'd be thrown 100 years into the past," he explained. The transition to the 1800s would occur as quicly as flipping a light switch off.
The last storm of this magnitude that hit the US occurred in 1859. If such a superstorm hits again it would paralyze the United States for months…for years…