tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post1648350338115345220..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: A New Low in Solar Flare AlarmismSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-31203674590674249242013-08-05T20:37:33.112-04:002013-08-05T20:37:33.112-04:00I watch him also and agree on the melodramatic but...I watch him also and agree on the melodramatic but he does a good job aggregating. Kind of like the Drudge of solar news. :)<br />Terry<br />Fla. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-36634862197931437272013-08-05T19:05:15.373-04:002013-08-05T19:05:15.373-04:00I watch him more days than not. He seems a bit me...I watch him more days than not. He seems a bit melodramatic to me, but maybe that's just me. <br /><br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-68744118333376577892013-08-05T13:22:48.202-04:002013-08-05T13:22:48.202-04:00Another source for information is spaceweather.com...Another source for information is spaceweather.com which you can sign up for and they send you email alerts on developing solar flares and other space trivia. indyjonesoutherenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-10768704954968260902013-08-04T23:42:38.334-04:002013-08-04T23:42:38.334-04:00This guy Ben, https://www.youtube.com/user/Suspici...This guy Ben, https://www.youtube.com/user/Suspicious0bservers, has great sun and weather coverage daily, I recommend visiting his channel. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-11953998082184433872013-08-04T22:13:36.467-04:002013-08-04T22:13:36.467-04:00Yeah, I saw the scare post, too.
I then went to s...Yeah, I saw the scare post, too.<br /><br />I then went to several different space weather/radio propagation sites, and they were all "Oh, yeah, we had a flare last week".<br /><br />I am so freaking sick of these "ZOMG!! Solar Flares!! ZOMBIES!!!" stories getting my non-technical friends all spun up.<br /><br />Even if that CME did clobber us, it would NOT be TEOTWAWKI.<br /><br />PERIOD!<br />drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-27048182403544225492013-08-04T21:18:12.847-04:002013-08-04T21:18:12.847-04:00Agent Orange was investigated inside out and there...Agent Orange was investigated inside out and there was no illness that resulted from it's use or exposure to it. It was all heresay as in "I had a friend who got cancer 20 years later must have been the agent orange in Viet nam". But the studies found no increase in any diseases for Vietnam vets either those who were directly exposed or simply from being in Vietnam. It is all about the money/free health care. Years after the scientific studies and negative results congress voted to simply give any vietnam vet the benefit of the doubt so na matter what disease they come down with the VA covers it. This was a political decision not a scientific one. But one result of that decision is that today most people believe agent orange causes cancer or whatever disease you want to blame on it. But it doesn't. The use in Vietnam was the "perfect" opportunity to prove dioxin (or agent orange) was toxic and the irrefutable result was that it is not. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-51713924863883142712013-08-04T20:47:42.735-04:002013-08-04T20:47:42.735-04:00Well said. I was disappointed one of the major sur...Well said. I was disappointed one of the major survival blogs reported it as fact with the usual warnings. <br />Terry<br />Fla.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-53167593248089847472013-08-04T20:42:37.075-04:002013-08-04T20:42:37.075-04:00I think a long cold spell is far more likely to ha...I think a long cold spell is far more likely to happen before another Carrington event. In addition, modern power lines are much better protected than telegraph lines 150 years ago. I wouldn't be surprised to see billions of dollars in damage, but not the collapse of civilization.The Great and Powerful Ozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01379953300283048280noreply@blogger.com