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    Big X-class flare nearly DESTROYS EARTH!!! ...oh noes....

    Whew! We skated death 2 years ago....of course, death being defined by the New York Post as losing reliable cell service for a day or two, and maybe some good light shows in the atmosphere.

    I just thought this was a humorous thing to share with a bunch of radio ops.

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    Can you imagine no "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" for several days? People would be cutting their throats all over the place.
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    Quote Originally Posted by K7SGJ View Post
    Can you imagine no "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" for several days? People would be cutting their throats all over the place.
    Don't get my hopes up....
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    I knew about this nearly 3 months ago, but I refrained from posting in my capacity of Gloom and Doom Poster.

    IF this had hit, nearly all electronics would've been fried, and electrical generation would've become non-existent. Transformers everywhere would be blown out and it would take years if not decades just to restore basic electrical production. I'm pretty certain GPS, Air travel, rail travel and anything computer controlled would be junk. For years, thanks to a story in the Old Farmers Almanac, I have been aware of the prior event that took place in the mid-1800s when there was little running on electricity. Railroad telegraphers had a heck of a time though. One thing that they found out was that they could disconnect their lines from the battery and they would still work.

    Be interesting to see the ramifications of living in 1800 again in a world with 8 billion people living in the dark.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ3N View Post
    Don't get my hopes up....
    Hell, I'd set up a push cart and start renting out knives.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Again, this actually hit about the 8 o'clock position assuming we were at 12:00 o'clock in the orbital path. Just like the one in 2012 which was actually closer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by K7SGJ View Post
    Can you imagine no "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" for several days? People would be cutting their throats all over the place.
    Or Here Comes Honey Boo Boo??

    Or Justin PowerBottom videos?
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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ3N View Post
    Don't get my hopes up....
    Yeah really... Don't be such a tease!

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    Quote Originally Posted by K7SGJ View Post
    Can you imagine no "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" for several days? People would be cutting their throats all over the place.
    Are you kidding. They go insane when the station breaks into their show to provide a tornado or hurricane warning. Meteorologists have gotten death threats from angry viewers pissed off because they broke into their show to warn people in the path of an oncoming tornado to take shelter and be ready. Of course most of the angry remarks and threats come from people who are not in the storms path. In other words, " am watching Honey Boo Boo so screw anyone who may be in danger".
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    It is very DANGEROUS To live on this Planet!!! not only are there big flares, but also big spiders!!!

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