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/dev/random / The sun god hates you
« on: July 07, 2009, 12:32:48 AM »
Maybe this is why my ping sucks in the evenings.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090706/sc_space/thesunhasspotsfinally
According to the article, solar storms that struck in 1859 caused telegraph lines to spontaneously burst into flames. I'm not sure if I really believe that though. Imagine if some shit like that were to happen tomorrow. Everything you own would be reduced to smoldering cinders. Your house is wired for telecommunications... burned to the ground (along with our precious PC's, oh noes!). Your car wiring would explode. You know how expensive the main wiring harness in any vehicle costs these days? Let me put it this way: A company I used to work for had the engines stolen out of a few work trucks. In order to remove the motor, they had to cut the wiring harness. That alone was enough for the insurance company to declare it totalled.
I have a solution. Every country on the planet should start mass producing fire extinguishers and collecting them all from every company, private citizen, and even scavenging through landfills to find the ones that were thrown away. We'll send an army of space shuttles to bombard the sun with them. The heat of the sun will melt through the metal tanks releasing the carbon dioxide and thusly extinguishing the Sun permanently.
Now... if someone else would care to volunteer to create a solution as to what to do when our planet super-cools from not having a Sun.
Then... if someone else could figure out what to do when our planet begins flying out of orbit due to no gravitational pull from the Sun. God forbid if our planet were to crash into Mars. Maybe if we're really lucky it'll only hit France and Sweden.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090706/sc_space/thesunhasspotsfinally
According to the article, solar storms that struck in 1859 caused telegraph lines to spontaneously burst into flames. I'm not sure if I really believe that though. Imagine if some shit like that were to happen tomorrow. Everything you own would be reduced to smoldering cinders. Your house is wired for telecommunications... burned to the ground (along with our precious PC's, oh noes!). Your car wiring would explode. You know how expensive the main wiring harness in any vehicle costs these days? Let me put it this way: A company I used to work for had the engines stolen out of a few work trucks. In order to remove the motor, they had to cut the wiring harness. That alone was enough for the insurance company to declare it totalled.
I have a solution. Every country on the planet should start mass producing fire extinguishers and collecting them all from every company, private citizen, and even scavenging through landfills to find the ones that were thrown away. We'll send an army of space shuttles to bombard the sun with them. The heat of the sun will melt through the metal tanks releasing the carbon dioxide and thusly extinguishing the Sun permanently.
Now... if someone else would care to volunteer to create a solution as to what to do when our planet super-cools from not having a Sun.
Then... if someone else could figure out what to do when our planet begins flying out of orbit due to no gravitational pull from the Sun. God forbid if our planet were to crash into Mars. Maybe if we're really lucky it'll only hit France and Sweden.