The weather channel is talking about a huge solar storm that will be causing aurora borealis. The sun launches all sorts of ions, and electromagnetic waves and pulses, etc, which got me thinking...
We talk about terroristic EMP attacks, but doesn't the sun... the very thing that gives us life on this planted... have greater potential for causing infrastructure collapse, based on the idea that a huge EMP blast would crash electronics everywhere?
I know one or two people who are HAM radio nuts, and I spoke with them briefly about this. I thought it was pretty cool that we use the earth's ionosphere to bounce radio waves around the globe... but what happens when the sun blasts it away?
If anyone gets pics of the aurora, post them up. If anyone here does HAM tell us how this solar storm affects you. Of course if it knocks out our electronics, you won't be able to post and we'll all know the results of this "solar tsunami".
In my mind, this is a more realistic possibility than some 200 ton EMP bomb being smuggled into the USA and detonated. Thoughts and comments welcome!
