World defenseless against unknown space cloud (solar storm warning for 2012)

[Zaure]

I'm coming

Too late it already took off. Couldn't stay any longer because I wouldn't be out of the system in time when the cloud came.

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[Demian]

I think I trust NASA more than I do Mr. Kaku.

I trust both equally.

[Kearn]

actually CMEs happen fairly often and very few are actually powerful enough to do something

you can turn off electronic equipment and chances are it will still function

that's why we didn't lose all our satellites already

[Nymethus]

I think I trust NASA more than I do Mr. Kaku.

NASA is OOP

[Vegetarian Zombie]

Too late it already took off. Couldn't stay any longer because I wouldn't be out of the system in time when the cloud came.

I made it on >:D


SUCKERS

[Jacob/Lee]

Where'd you get the first quote?

[Pliny]

I read more about it and subsequently became less panicked.

http://www.universetoday.com/14645/2012-no-killer-solar-flare/

Bedsides, at the very least survival would still be a decent possibility.

[Specever]

Threats like this were probably around all the loving time way back when. They just didn't have the stuff to detect it and get scared stuffless over it.

[Bisjac]

of course its real.

this =/= everyone dies.
you guys make the weirdest assumptions. and the ones who dont want to believe, argue even more sillyness to defend against it.



i do love your concept of not wanting it to happen, therefore its not happening. based on no data of your own.

[Comatose]

Can Our Sun Produce Killer Flares?

The short answer is "no".

k

thank you

come again

[Max4344]

Should I be scared? Because right now I'm terrified! D:

[curiosblockland6]

That was supposed to be a solar flare to knock out power for a while.
This is supposed to knock out life, people tend to take this more seriously.

Knock out power? Knock out life? Aren't those the same thing?

[Mega-Bear]

I'm not sure whether to be scared or not care about it.

[Supersylox]

Oh stuff son

If its a radiation based solar storm

Can I has be deathclaw?

[Thar]

Ok, so what I can gather from the OP is that our solar system is moving through a gigantic photon cloud that will forget with the orbits of several things in space, forget with the sun, forget with our magnetic field, and maybe forget with our technology in our modern world?

Do the scientists know exactly the effects of this cloud and whatever solar storms it causes our sun to spawn will harm us? Or how big they could be?