Relevant YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGlGCIiyZE This guy has done solar weather reports every morning for years at this point.
12% chance of global EMP sounds pretty high, no?
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#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
OP’s factoring includes washing, food prep, all that other stuff.
1.5 a day for washing is hilariously wasteful. Use some wet wipes for crying out loud!
How do you wash your clothes and dishes with wet wipes?
Also you need to clean your home - you don't want to get sick in a catastrophe scenario.
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#243I don't even get out of bed for anything less than a Carrington Event.
I got out of bed (here in London) for this one and managed to see the aurora for the first time!
This winter has been abyssmal for auroras in north Sweden. Usually we get to see them pretty often but this year it was either cloudy or snowstorm every time. And now it's too bright in the night, the sun never properly sets. Sigh. Happy for you though, it's a very beautiful experience!
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And I hope you realize China had multiple famines with cannibalistic events as recent as 1959: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
I hope you realize that these events are notable because they are unusual and not because they are the rule.
This entire thread is about preparation for the unusual, not the rule. Considering the human response to significant adversity is not out of line here.
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Uuuuh I have a flight today 8pm CT . What will this mean for airplanes?
Nothing consequential for a single flight. Even crew really don't have to worry about it until it gets to very high levels, according to the NOAA scales
Do you have a source for this? My friend was asking about this.
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#247That's explain why my laptop yesterday abruptly shut down twice.
I don't know if it's related but my phone's screen was flickering earlier.
That’s highly unlikely to have a CME as a root cause unless it was connected to long distance transmission lines.
CMEs tend not to affect small electronics on their own.
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I had to dig around but I think this the one I remember. There are two other reports linked in the comments. https://old.reddit.com/r/preppers/comments/11tblpp/found_it_...
Thanks! This is the doc I found the "90 percent of our population is dead" quote from, which is asserted indirectly: https://irp.fas.org/congress/2008_hr/emp.pdf It's referring to a fictional story in that quote, but the scientist says that 90% is accurate for the real world if that scenario were to happen. Pretty chilling.
This is an interesting read. I noticed also that Roscoe Bartlett, the rep running that hearing, moved entirely off the grid after retirement.
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! This is the doc I found the "90 percent of our population is dead" quote from, which is asserted indirectly: https://irp.fas.org/congress/2008_hr/emp.pdf It's referring to a fictional story in that quote, but the scientist says that 90% is accurate for the real world if that scenario were to happen. Pretty chilling.
This is an interesting read. I noticed also that Roscoe Bartlett, the rep running that hearing, moved entirely off the grid after retirement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Bartlett#Personal_life
He was born in 1926, he grew up "of the grid" and likely spent most of his early life mostly off grid.
It's not especially noteworthy .. to those of us that also grew up away from large connected services - you have your own sewerage, generators, mail, drive | walk to town to pick things up.
Currently I'm "mostly" off grid - I have internet connection, a well, leach drains, solar + wind (electric) + wind (mechanical mill), etc and live in a rural community with a lot of people older than 60 who also grew up off grid.
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I'm sure there are articles discussing the point, but I wonder why citizen-facing scales don't use more linear representations for things.
Because citizens aren't expected to need to know the scale. They are only expected to follow the guidance their governments issue.
I like the response, seems very astute of an observation.
Interpreting this in the worse light possible… in other words, gate keeping.
I think a lot more people could understand and be mature in a lot more things if artificial and archaic barriers weren’t erected. I think not trusting the public is a recipe for an obscure elite ruling class. Sure, not a whole lot of people will get it but at least be open about it.
Then again, maybe there is a benefit to using that particular scale and I’ve been poisoned by my generational ills.
Not trying to be argumentative.
If I hazarded a guess it’s the second reason right?