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NASA warns: Solar storms could cause “internet apocalypse” by 2025

17 days ago -

During this period, sunspots can produce intense solar storms, which if directed toward the Earth could create widespread outages to electronics and radio communications. The first two months of 2024 alone have witnessed a surge in solar activity, with sunspots producing numerous coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which are phenomena responsible for solar storms.

NASA, which has been watching the Sun's activity using the Parker Solar Probe (PSP), warns the probability ...

Solar researcher warns of solar activity decrease, imminent MINI ICE AGE and GLOBAL FAMINE by 2030

October 06, 2023 -

In a 2019 interview with the award-winning Canadian journalist Stuart McNish on his program "Conversations That Matter," Valentina Zharkova, who authored world-leading research as well as numerous groundbreaking publications, explained that they have been observing signs that since 2015, solar activity has been decreasing in a manner only seen during the Grand Solar Minimum, which last occurred during the Maunder Minimum, also known as the "prolonged sunspot minimum," 400 years ...

Solar eruptions send shock waves through space; 3D models created by NASA satellites map trajectory

April 13, 2018 -

CMEs are tremendous expulsions of plasma and charged particles from a star like our Sun. They take place whenever the magnetic field lines around the Sun enter a state of flux.

A coronal mass ejection is so powerful that it can kick off geomagnetic storms on Earth. These storms can damage orbiting satellites, disable electrical grids, and affect electronics.

NASA developed its CME models using data from three separate satellites. The models show in graphic ...

Unexplained “booming noises” baffles people around the world

December 02, 2020 -

In the regional district of North Okanagan in Canada, many locals heard a sudden, deafening noise around noon on Nov. 27, with one resident saying it sounded "like a volcano erupted."

Both village officials and the Canadian National Seismograph Network are not entirely sure what caused the explosive sound as there were no reports of smoke or earthquake in the geologically active areas around the time. The operations schedule of the village was also clear of construction ...

Solar telescope offers unprecedented glimpse into the Sun

September 08, 2020 -

Recent observations using the telescope offer a spectacular, unprecedented glimpse into the Sun's surface. An image captured magnetic structures, which resembled the craggy, golden texture of popcorn. Another image zooms in on a sunspot, a dark region on the Sun's surface that's relatively cool and extremely magnetic.

The images were captured after major upgrades were done on Europe's largest solar telescope.

"This was a very exciting, but also extremely challenging ...

NASA says the solar flare that caused a radio blackout last September was the biggest flare in a decade

April 25, 2018 -

As a report on the incident states, two X-class solar flares were released on that September day, so you already have an indication of how powerful they are. X-class flares are known to be part of the most powerful sun-storm class, and both flares that happened on September 6 fall under that category.

At around 5:10 a.m. EDT, the first X-class solar flare happened, due to a large sun spot on the surface of the sun. At that point in time, it was the single strongest solar ...

Sun erupting non-stop this month, giant explosions seen from its far side

February 23, 2022 -

February has been a heavy month of solar activity so far, with the solar system's star discharging two massive explosions from its far side (facing away from Earth).

A brilliant coronal mass ejection (CME) that extended millions of miles into space was reported by the STEREO-A spacecraft of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the early hours of Feb. 15.

The largest solar prominence eruption ever seen in a single image together with the ...

Air Force prepares for potential EMP attack

March 14, 2021 -

The inspection is intended to identify any equipment that may be vulnerable to an EMP attack. According to the request, it will be done ahead of a more advanced vulnerability survey, after which officials will upgrade the equipment.

The request came in response to a 2019 executive order that then-President Donald Trump issued for the federal government to strengthen its infrastructure against EMPs. Peter Pry, a defense analyst who consulted on the project, said that the inspection and ...

Scientists warn of MASSIVE solar storms: “We need to be better prepared”

July 24, 2019 -

If one of those ancient storms took place in modern times, it would devastate electrical and electronic systems. Experts warned that communications, computer-based technologies, power grids, and satellites are vulnerable to rough solar weather.

When the sun experiences severe activity, it releases vast amounts of excited particles. The resulting solar storm covers vast distances at rapid speeds.

Its particles may burn out the electronic circuits of satellites. It ...

Study confirms that man-made climate change is completely fake (so much for consensus…)

July 22, 2019 -

This is the conclusion of a new study out of Finland, in which researchers from the University of Turku determined that the contribution of humans to global temperature increases over the past century is negligible, at best.

While planetary temperatures are said to have risen by about 0.1 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years, human activity contributed only about 0.01 degrees Celsius of this, or about 10 percent.

Entitled, "No experimental evidence for the significant ...

Sunspot unleashes a dozen solar flares in a day, causing radio blackouts worldwide

May 27, 2021 - A sunspot unleashed a chain of solar flares last Saturday, May 22, jamming radio signals over North America and Southeast Asia and potentially causing a disturbance to Earth's magnetic field.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recorded a total of 12 solar flares erupting from sunspot AR2824 within a day. Ten of those were weak and had few noticeable consequences while the remaining two were M-class flares, which could cause brief radio blackouts and minor geomagnetic ...

The sun unleashes strongest solar flare in three years

December 02, 2020 -

SpaceWeather reported that the solar flare registered as an M4.4 on the scale used to measure solar storms. Solar flares, which are sudden, bright explosions of electromagnetic energy, are measured on a scale from one to nine, with larger numbers indicating stronger explosions. These solar storms are generally classified as small C-class, medium M-class or large X-class flares.

The M4.4 flare is considered to be of medium intensity and burst bright on Sunday with a ...

GPS-dependent America is one solar storm away from collapse

September 27, 2021 -

Solar storms can end America

Solar storms occur when the sun emits massive bursts of energy in the form of solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CME). Solar flares are commonly accompanied by CMEs, which are powerful expulsions of charged particles and magnetic energy.

These two events are not directly dangerous to life on Earth, since the planet's magnetic field deflects any harmful radiation and charged particles that the sun emits. But satellites are ...

Mysterious shock wave cracks Earth’s magnetosphere – exposing the planet to dangerous space radiation for hours

December 26, 2022 -

Although the shockwave's origin is unknown, astronomers think it came from an ejection of energetic and highly magnetized, superheated gas discharged from the sun, which is also called a coronal mass ejection (CME).

According to Space Weather, the ejection may have been unleashed from sunspot AR3165, which fired at least eight solar flares into space on December 14 that caused blackouts over the Atlantic Ocean. Even though scientists are not yet sounding the alarm, ...

SHTF tips: How to survive an EMP attack that brings down the power grid

March 24, 2022 -

What causes large-scale EMP?

A large-scale EMP could destroy the power and communications networks across continents, which could eventually cause the collapse of modern society.

Below are the two potential causes of EMP large enough to cause widespread damage or destroy the power grid.

EMP caused by weapons

Gamma radiation produced by a nuclear explosion collides with air molecules, which then causes a massive electric field. Asymmetries in the electric field ...

Health care economics: Diseases are too profitable to prevent or cure

June 27, 2006 - naturalnews.com printable article

Health care economics: Diseases are too profitable to prevent or cure

Let's take a look at it: The job of a doctor (a General Practitioner, or GP) is primarily to diagnose disease, treat symptoms and make referrals to other specialists for surgery, lab tests or other procedures. (Good doctors also help educate patients, but that's the exception, not the norm.) Patients don't go see a doctor unless there's something wrong with them. When they do ...

Health care economics: Diseases are too profitable to prevent or cure

a long time ago - Health care economics: Diseases are too profitable to prevent or cureLet's take a look at it: The job of a doctor (a General Practitioner, or GP) is primarily to diagnose disease, treat symptoms and make referrals to other specialists for surgery, lab tests or other procedures. (Good doctors also help educate patients, but that's the exception, not the norm.) Patients don't go see a doctor unless there's something wrong with them. When they do see the doctor, the doctor's ...