Solar Interuptions

There seems to be a growing fear amongst no one in particular about the damage that mass coronal ejections from the Sun might do to our power grid here on earth. Apparently the fear is that the waves of charged particles might rip through our communications grid and fry all the components of the various 14 million satellites we have hovering around the planet.

Further, fear that these storms might actually charge the ground current that exists already and severely interrupt ground based electrical systems has been posed by the such and such astronomical society. So they are launching studies to determine what we can do to protect ourselves against these things.

What we need is some type of protective net to insure that our delicate systems can withstand the worse the Sun can give us (well not the worst, a super nova would be the worst I suspect). Some kind of net in the sky . . . a SKY NET!

Post Script: I sat in the Apple store for quite a spell yesterday waiting to meet one of the techs and get a fix on TLG's main work horse computer. It had decided to malfunction.

As I sat there I watched countless people drift in and and out, sit and wait, talk, chat, browse, etc. But all of them were on their phones, or ipads, checking texts, perusing the internet or whatever it is people do on their phones.

It was all okay until I walked up to McDonalds and saw someone order while texting on the phone, never looking at the lady asking for his order, only holding up two fingers for a #2 . . . or so the lady surmised (she was laughing with me the whole time).

So I say with some guarded humor that maybe these giant threatening solar interruptions will be okay, just a little at any rate. ;)