From sci fi to sci fact

[Kal El Rah]

If the Sun is slowing down, how much? Solar Storms that are strong enough to penetrate the Ionisphere will destroy anything that is electronic(That's why I have an old VW in my driveway, no computer, no problem and cash in a safe at home). An large enough Asteroid is known as a Planet Killer(nothing will survive) even if it was small , the dust kicked up will result in a new Ice Age because the dust would block out the Sun. But with all the things that are happening now days, We may do ourselves in long before we should worry about outside of our control situations.

Just my 2 cents worth.

[Zero Unit]

Not to mention humans can adapt very well...so, should the asteroid be small enough to not incinerate every living thing on the planet and just merely be an ice age, we could adapt with hydroponics, etc.

Also, EMP hardening can pretty much make this concern of solar storms null and void; it's just that the government doesn't want to spend the money to overhaul the power grid.

[Nightwing]

This has always been a danger; that article is a little misleading. The same thing could happen to any other country on the planet, not just the U.S.

[Col-mar]

Nightwing, you're right. It does say so on the CBS version of the article. But such an event is a few years off but also already happened in the past.

What meant by be prepared is for the yahoos who will burn a pillage the rest of the globe. It does't hurt to have a plan to keep you and yours safe from such people.

My main consern is given the current social unrest in this country, a solar storm of that magnitude would cause an opportunity for a new cival war, and if that does happen, that's why I will be prepared.

Of course being a country boy, I could survive it no issue.

[Angelus Lupus]

I'll be safe. Hollywood has taught me that civilisation-destroying asteroids only ever hit the USA. All the UK gets is the occasional alien invasion in Wales.

[JaylinDakaal]

A side note on "global warming". Right now as the oceans get warmer, they cause the ice caps to melt, but, the fresh water is less dense than the salt water, the result is that the cool fresh water never sinks into the ocean to be naturally heated and circulated in the currents. We just end up with this level of water that doesn't really do anything but float around. So basically once so much of the ice caps have melted the planet will naturally start to cool off again. We just have a tendency to speed these processes up a little bit.

[Nightwing]

My main consern is given the current social unrest in this country, a solar storm of that magnitude would cause an opportunity for a new cival war, and if that does happen, that's why I will be prepared.

Of course being a country boy, I could survive it no issue.

Heh. I live in Texas; we ARE our own army.

[Zero Unit]

I'll be safe. Hollywood has taught me that civilisation-destroying asteroids only ever hit the USA. All the UK gets is the occasional alien invasion in Wales.

And you have Torchwoods One and Three to count on to repel that....

Across the pond, we have nutters with shotguns who manage to repel the invasion because aliens were dumb enough to steal their booze...