Lucky Earthlings

[benjamen]

http://news.yahoo.com/earth-survived-near-miss-2012-solar-storm-nasa-222404357.html

"Back in 2012, the Sun erupted with a powerful solar storm that just missed the Earth but was big enough to "knock modern civilization back to the 18th century," NASA said."

"If the eruption had occurred only one week earlier, Earth would have been in the line of fire,"

:flail:

 

[pmbug]

I think we are still waiting for the other foot to drop on the debt derivative storm that just missed imploding on Earth in 2007/2008 that might be big enough to knock modern civilization back to the 17th century or so.

 

[mmerlinn]

I think we are still waiting for the other foot to drop on the debt derivative storm that just missed imploding on Earth in 2007/2008 that might be big enough to knock modern civilization back to the 17th century or so.

More likely to knock us back to the Dark Ages, literally.

 

[DSAbug]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-29/most-significant-danger-according-elliotts-paul-singer

 

[pmbug]

Yeah, it's all about the power grid. There aren't enough real Connecticut Yankees to pull society as a whole through that ordeal.