How about water?
Yes and bacteria is another. Without it life would not exist!
What about electrons? Without them material would not exist!
But if life did not exist how would anyone know it's chaotic?
Imagine if there were no wheels, for example.
Or in the next solar cycle a super X100 class coronal mass ejection directed right at the planet takes out all satellites (no gps/tv/etc.). The electrical surge is so great that the power grid fails and even some fires start. Cars run until they're out of fuel and there is no electric to pump fuel. No phones, no Blackberry, no computers. Sure the guy on the hill with the windmill MAY have power providing he did not get damaged. Kind of hard to do anything on his PC. Play solitaire all day long?
Yeah people would still be alive in a new chaotic world if that happened. Scary thing as a variant of it is possible and the chance is much higher than a terrorist delivering a nuclear weapon to a major population center in the United States or an all out exchange of thermonuclear devices between the East and West, etc.
They way I've seen people depend on GPS to get places these days - losing the satellites could be fairly chaotic! How many people know how to read maps or keep them in their cars these days?
You paint a rosy view of the future... oh wait a minute that's a doomsday scenario
Something similar (they never say if it's an asteroid impact, nuke EMP, supervolcano, CME, etc) is depicted in "The Road". Fairly typical for a post apocalyptic movie, but fairly well done. Plus it starred Viggo Mortensen
It's essentially like hitting the reset button and starting over.The Sun has the biggest global impact on something to be experienced in modern human lifetime. Additionally the infrastructure for power transmission/distribution worldwide is very susceptible to extreme solar events. The Sun has been very quiet for far too long - like winding up a big spring. Eventually it will go boing!
ELEs such as asteroids are very possible but the odds are (thankfully!) extremely low. Before such a thing happens humans will probably have long passed on activity they have done themselves.
Yes and bacteria is another. Without it life would not exist!
What about electrons? Without them material would not exist!
But if life did not exist how would anyone know it's chaotic?
Imagine if there were no wheels, for example.
Or in the next solar cycle a super X100 class coronal mass ejection directed right at the planet takes out all satellites (no gps/tv/etc.). The electrical surge is so great that the power grid fails and even some fires start. Cars run until they're out of fuel and there is no electric to pump fuel. No phones, no Blackberry, no computers. Sure the guy on the hill with the windmill MAY have power providing he did not get damaged. Kind of hard to do anything on his PC. Play solitaire all day long?
Yeah people would still be alive in a new chaotic world if that happened. Scary thing as a variant of it is possible and the chance is much higher than a terrorist delivering a nuclear weapon to a major population center in the United States or an all out exchange of thermonuclear devices between the East and West, etc.
They way I've seen people depend on GPS to get places these days - losing the satellites could be fairly chaotic! How many people know how to read maps or keep them in their cars these days?
clearly you need to play the game Deus Ex. one of your options at the end is to plunge the world into a new dark age by taking out all important global computer systems
clearly you need to play the game Deus Ex. one of your options at the end is to plunge the world into a new dark age by taking out all important global computer systems
Why do it in a game though?
You scare me sometimes D:
Oh, and here's a wub smilie :wub: That buys me entry into your secret submarine/tech bunker in the Mariana trench. Right? Right?!?!
The best part is, these big CMEs don't seem to be one of those extremely rare events, like a multi-mile-wide asteroid hitting us. There have been a few sizable ones in fairly recent history. The two that come to mind in the past 150 years or so were the one in the late 1980's that caused power outages in Canada, and then the one in the mid 1800's that was powerful enough to cause Aurora Borealis to light up all over the planet, as well as damage telegraph systems. I'd bet that the only thing that prevented that from being a widespread disaster was the simple fact that we didn't have the large power grid we have today, and so it wasn't something we depended on.Yup, I've been reading and hearing about this for quite some time.
Unfortunately, because we've had only relatively minor events happen to us, we aren't really prepared for such a cataclysmic disaster. I don't like to think about it too much, though, because it's kind of depressing. Not that I'm worried.
The LHC will get us first
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