Scientists monitor the changes in the sun and its service for what is called solar flares or solar storms and the next major event is arrival with the staggering 2012 solar flare. Scientists have always intimately followed the 11 year cycle of the sun and logged the patterns and the changes they cause here on Earth. The last event took place in 2003 and passed with small attentiveness from the regular world. Any way scientists are implicated that this next event arrival with the 2012 solar flare will not pass unnoticed at all.
What Are Solar Flares?
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Solar flares are storms that occur on the outside of the sun creating an eruption of intense high-energy radiation. The concern surrounding the upcoming 2012 solar storm stems from the the eruptions of solar flares in 1859 which caused telegraph wires to abruptly short out and it is also believed that this is what caused thorough fires throughout the United States and Europe.
The inherent to Cripple Communications
The National Academy of Sciences performed a study that shows the inherent for some very real and grim possibilities when the 2012 flares occur, that of which have never before been experienced by whatever alive today. With the advancement of technology and communications comes a price and in 1859 technology was not as evolved as it is today. We now have thousands of satellites orbiting the earth, space stations floating in revolutions beyond the atmosphere and any disruption to these could cause catastrophic crippling of our communications and bring with it the inherent for loss of governmental control of the whole situation. All of this could occur with the 2012 solar flares, development this an event like no other.
What Else is Expected?
Scientists say that solar flares with this kind of power occur once every decade and as our technology evolves and expands these storms bring even more devastation. The main concerns are the inherent loss of the lives of astronauts in space, disabling of satellites, loss of communications and in the worst case knocking out power grids all over the Earth. The loss of just the power grids can potentially corollary 130 million habitancy in the United States alone.
As stated, the National Academy of Sciences is intimately monitoring the upcoming 2012 flare and as new information is ready the public will be informed. It goes with out saying that this is an event that we all should be mindful of and watch as new information becomes available.
2012 Solar Flare - Worst Case Scenario
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