Why should the perma-bears have the monopoly on scary stories?
Here’s one from one of Australia’s local fish and chip wrappers:
- The earth narrowly survived a near miss from a powerful solar storm in 2012 that was big enough to “knock modern civilisation back to the 18th century”
- The eruption on the sun … was the most powerful in 150 years
- It would have been comparable to the largest known space storm in 1859, known as the Carrington event
- Could cost the modern economy more than two trillion dollars and cause damage that might take years to repair
There is a 12 per cent chance of a super solar storm the size of the Carrington event hitting Earth in the next 10 years, according to physicist Pete Riley … His research was based on an analysis of solar storm records going back 50 years
“Initially, I was quite surprised that the odds were so high, but the statistics appear to be correct,” said Riley.
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I’m off to stock up on baked beans and ammo!
Have a great weekend!
