22 September 2012 At midnight, the sky of New York, Manhattan United States will be covered by a beam of light that the color-screen warni.Di southern region of New York is, very few people who can see this aurora phenomenon. However, the feeling of enjoying the beautiful scenery of this nature will not last long. After a few seconds, all electric light bulbs in these regions are dark and uncertain flashes, then light rays in an instant suddenly grew light, and light bulbs to be extraordinary light. Furthermore, all the lights went out. 90 seconds later, the entire eastern United States will experience power outages. A year later, millions of Americans begin to die, state infrastructure will become a heap of ruins. The World Bank will announce the U.S. turned into a developing country. At the same time, Europe, China and Japan and other regions or countries will also be the same as the United States, struggling in this time of disaster. This disaster comes from the sun or solar storms terrible storm, occurred on the solar surface, a distance of 150 million km from Earth.
Perhaps the above story may sound impossible, under normal circumstances would not the sun can cause major disaster like that on Earth. However, a special report issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the United States in January 2009 stating that a disaster like this is very possibly could happen. The study was sponsored by NASA. In recent decades, the development of human society, western civilization had planted the seeds for their own destruction. Excessive modern way of life that depends on science and technology, unintentionally making us more trapped in a condition that is super dangerous. Plasma balls are emitted in the eruption of the solar surface may destroy our power grid, causing massive disasters. Daniel Becker of the University of Colorado an expert on space weather is the originator of a special report from the Academy of Sciences of the United States, "Right now we are getting closer to the possibility of this disaster. If humans can not prepare for Deng's ripe for hurricane disaster that will befall this sun. The solar storms will probably decide the electricity supply of mankind, phone signal, even including the water supply system. "
However, there are some experts who express different views, they consider the impact of solar storms mainly concentrated in outer space, and because the barrier effect of Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere, the interference effect will not be too real to life on earth. Experts say, when an active solar storm activity, will continue to occur in the sunspot combustion and explosion, when a large amount of ultraviolet light released will cause the density of the air layer above the earth's ionosphere to increase abruptly, taking out short-wave energy, so that short-wave radio signals disturbed. But the mobile phone used in everyday life, including the transmission of radio signals through the ionosphere layer, so that in general the impact of solar storms on communications on Earth's surface would not be significant. In theory, in general the intensity of solar storms will not be able to break through the protection of the atmosphere and Earth's magnetic field, until fatally threatened species on earth. But for the year 2012 solar storm experts fear may be an exception.
Facing the possibility of a serious disaster had befallen the will, the United States and all mankind did not immediately respond to properly prepare for a job in the face of the next solar storm cycle. Becker says that because of the possibility of large scale solar storm is very small, "The whole society does not even respond, but only noticed the problem in the eyes." Against the weather on Earth, scientists can track weather the storm that will happen over the next few days, and issue appropriate warnings to local residents, but the storm the sun or space weather is totally different. Backer said that now we still can not accurately predict the time and strength of solar storms, which can be predicted by me and my partner only if a large solar storm strikes, we are absolutely not able to handle it. "
This is similar to a hurricane disaster early warning and the man on the earth, mankind today is primarily dependent on the prediction of the sunspot cycle to monitor the intensity of solar storms and their impact on the earth. What is meant by sunspot is a process of improvement and significant reduction in the number of sunspot every 11 years. Cycle is calculated starting from the lowest sunspot activity on the sun. In the active period will be increased sunspot, solar storm that occurred will be more. When solar storms occur, high-speed particles and ions are formed by the flow of electrically charged particles emitted by a massive layer of the sun will affect the earth's magnetic field, ionosphere and neutral atmosphere. On the issue of the impact hazard solar storm, more than a century, people continue to monitor sunspot activity.
Based on the phenomena occurring on the surface of the sun and the data on sunspot cycles that occur before, scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR, United States, succeeded in developing a new model of solar dynamics. With new models, astronomers can give early warning of solar sunspot activity. They hope that early warning can help power companies, the satellite controllers and other aspects in a few days or even years earlier in order to get ready to face the sun sunspot activity. According to information, the accuracy of this new model can achieve 98% accuracy. Richard Enke from the National Science Foundation, Department of Atmospheric Research, said that if the United States at an early stage can predict solar storm activity, these people will be able to better cope with problems such as communication, satellite failures, power outages, as well as threats to astronauts and other things .
Perhaps the above story may sound impossible, under normal circumstances would not the sun can cause major disaster like that on Earth. However, a special report issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the United States in January 2009 stating that a disaster like this is very possibly could happen. The study was sponsored by NASA. In recent decades, the development of human society, western civilization had planted the seeds for their own destruction. Excessive modern way of life that depends on science and technology, unintentionally making us more trapped in a condition that is super dangerous. Plasma balls are emitted in the eruption of the solar surface may destroy our power grid, causing massive disasters. Daniel Becker of the University of Colorado an expert on space weather is the originator of a special report from the Academy of Sciences of the United States, "Right now we are getting closer to the possibility of this disaster. If humans can not prepare for Deng's ripe for hurricane disaster that will befall this sun. The solar storms will probably decide the electricity supply of mankind, phone signal, even including the water supply system. "
However, there are some experts who express different views, they consider the impact of solar storms mainly concentrated in outer space, and because the barrier effect of Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere, the interference effect will not be too real to life on earth. Experts say, when an active solar storm activity, will continue to occur in the sunspot combustion and explosion, when a large amount of ultraviolet light released will cause the density of the air layer above the earth's ionosphere to increase abruptly, taking out short-wave energy, so that short-wave radio signals disturbed. But the mobile phone used in everyday life, including the transmission of radio signals through the ionosphere layer, so that in general the impact of solar storms on communications on Earth's surface would not be significant. In theory, in general the intensity of solar storms will not be able to break through the protection of the atmosphere and Earth's magnetic field, until fatally threatened species on earth. But for the year 2012 solar storm experts fear may be an exception.
Facing the possibility of a serious disaster had befallen the will, the United States and all mankind did not immediately respond to properly prepare for a job in the face of the next solar storm cycle. Becker says that because of the possibility of large scale solar storm is very small, "The whole society does not even respond, but only noticed the problem in the eyes." Against the weather on Earth, scientists can track weather the storm that will happen over the next few days, and issue appropriate warnings to local residents, but the storm the sun or space weather is totally different. Backer said that now we still can not accurately predict the time and strength of solar storms, which can be predicted by me and my partner only if a large solar storm strikes, we are absolutely not able to handle it. "
This is similar to a hurricane disaster early warning and the man on the earth, mankind today is primarily dependent on the prediction of the sunspot cycle to monitor the intensity of solar storms and their impact on the earth. What is meant by sunspot is a process of improvement and significant reduction in the number of sunspot every 11 years. Cycle is calculated starting from the lowest sunspot activity on the sun. In the active period will be increased sunspot, solar storm that occurred will be more. When solar storms occur, high-speed particles and ions are formed by the flow of electrically charged particles emitted by a massive layer of the sun will affect the earth's magnetic field, ionosphere and neutral atmosphere. On the issue of the impact hazard solar storm, more than a century, people continue to monitor sunspot activity.
Based on the phenomena occurring on the surface of the sun and the data on sunspot cycles that occur before, scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR, United States, succeeded in developing a new model of solar dynamics. With new models, astronomers can give early warning of solar sunspot activity. They hope that early warning can help power companies, the satellite controllers and other aspects in a few days or even years earlier in order to get ready to face the sun sunspot activity. According to information, the accuracy of this new model can achieve 98% accuracy. Richard Enke from the National Science Foundation, Department of Atmospheric Research, said that if the United States at an early stage can predict solar storm activity, these people will be able to better cope with problems such as communication, satellite failures, power outages, as well as threats to astronauts and other things .
