On 06/08/2010 07:14 AM, dave wrote:
Bill Baka wrote:
On 06/07/2010 06:36 AM, dave wrote:
Lukagain Cos ThistleBounce wrote:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...10/04jun_swef/

Sunspot increase?

A CME in the right direction will someday reduce our techno-society to a
large collection of paperweights. Can't happen soon enough for me.

That would be great for me since all my radios have tubes. Built in
night lights. I've been thinking for the last 20 years how that event
would destroy all the newer, smaller chips with millions of transistors
on each one. Poof! No more high tech. Nasa says we are overdue for an
event from the sun.
Bill Baka

What will you listen to? All the upstream infrastructure is solid state.

OK, so it will get silent to the point of boring while the global powers
that be figure out what to do. I might be able to get some serious
DX'ing in during the quiet year to follow. We could even get hit by a
Gamma ray burst if a relatively local star goes supernova.
Something interesting like that is overdue. Before 1910 or so we would
have never noticed it but now everyone is dependent on 'gadgets'.