I hope you guys have plenty of aluminium foil..

Vipersan · Aug 8, 2013

..there will be a mad rush on this stuff soon ..
Tinfoil hats at the ready ..

http://myscienceacademy.org/2013/08/07/the-suns-magnetic-field-is-about-to-flip/
Who knows what the side effects will be..
Could be quite scary ..
Then again ..
a big fat nothing ..
Who can say
We are in uncharted undocumented territory here.

Lazarus · Aug 8, 2013

"Cosmic .................."

Vipersan · Aug 8, 2013

Tivù said:
"Cosmic .................."

..Well ..it has happened many times before of course ..but ..we are already experiencing odd weather extremes most likely due to global warming ..
Throw a magnetic field reversal on the sun into the mix ..and who knows..

as you say ..Cosmic..
lol

PaulR · Aug 8, 2013

If that coincides with the Earth's magnetic pole reversal, which seems to be on the go, then lethal amounts of ionising radiation could surely hit the surface.

Not a happy thought.

Vipersan · Aug 8, 2013

PaulR said:
If that coincides with the Earth's magnetic pole reversal, which seems to be on the go, then lethal amounts of ionising radiation could surely hit the surface.

Not a happy thought.

Like I said ..there _should_ be a rush on baco-foil

Analoguesat · Aug 8, 2013

Its bound to be cloudy & piddling it down up here when it happens so the rain will absorb anything bad

excollier · Aug 9, 2013

You mean there are people out there who don't sit in their shielded bunker with meticulously fashioned aluminium headwear?? Seriously?

Channel Hopper · Aug 10, 2013

Vipersan said:
Like I said ..there _should_ be a rush on baco-foil

Or, you could unknit a couple of pairs of underpants.

I hope you guys have plenty of aluminium foil..

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