An attack from the sun

According to British website reports "New Scientist", the purpose of solar storms or solar storm is a powerful cycle of blasting activities from the time of peak sunspot activity (sunspot), usually every 11 years will enter a period of solar storm activity. American scientists recently warned that by 2012 the Earth will experience a severe solar storm (Solar Blast), rusakanya power will be far greater than the wind storm "Katrina", and almost all humans on earth will not be able to break away from the impact of disasters.Strong Solar Storms in 2012 will Attacking
On 22 September 2012 at midnight, the sky of New York, Manhattan United States will be offset by a beam of light that color screen-warni.Di southern region of New York is, very few people who can see this phenomenon of aurora. However, the feeling of enjoying the beautiful scenery of this nature will not last long. After a few seconds, all the electric light bulb in the region was getting dark and flashing erratically, then rays of light in an instant suddenly grew light, and light bulbs into the extraordinary light. Furthermore, all the lights off. 90 seconds later, the entire eastern United States will experience a power outage. A year later, millions of Americans begin to die, the country's infrastructure will become a heap of rubble. 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, fought in all of this disaster. This disaster comes from solar storms or solar storm is devastating, occurring on the surface of the sun is 150 million km from Earth.Detection Tool Successfully Photographing American Solar Storms
Perhaps the story above sounds impossible, under normal circumstances the sun will not cause a major disaster like that on earth. However, a special report issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the United States in January 2009 stated that a disaster like this is very likely to occur. The study was sponsored by NASA. In recent decades, the development of human society, Western civilization has planted the seeds for their own destruction. Excessively modern way of life which is highly dependent on science and technology, inadvertently makes us more trapped in a condition that is super dangerous. Plasma balls are emitted in the eruption of the sun's surface may destroy our power grid, resulting in catastrophe. 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 catastrophe. If a man can not prepare deng's cooked on a solar storm disaster that will befall this. These solar storms will probably decide the power supply mankind, cell 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 the outer space, and because the barrier effect of the earth's magnetic field and atmosphere, the influence of interference would not be so real to life on earth. Experts say, when the solar storm activity is active, persistent burning and blasting on the sunspot, while a large amount of ultraviolet light released will cause the density of the air layer above the Earth's ionosphere increases suddenly, absorb wave energy up short, so short-wave radio signals disturbed. But cell phones are used in everyday life, including the transmission of radio signals not through ionospheric layers, so that in general the impact of solar storms on communications in the earth's surface will not be significant. In theory, in general, the intensity of solar storms will not be able to break through the protection of Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field, until a fatal threat to the species that are on earth. But for the year 2012 solar storm experts fear may be an exception.Maybe Bringing the Great Disaster Impact on Earth
U.S. scientists warn that, by 2012 a strong solar storm on earth would bring great misfortune on humans, which will affect every aspect in modern society today. The experts issued a warning to atakan, the impact of solar storms on Earth is possible "domino effect". Just think, if the power grid becomes fragile and unstable, matters relating to electricity supply businesses also will be a victim: stop refrigeration equipment, food and medicines are stored in large refrigerated room would lose the storage conditions and damaged; pump suddenly stopped functioning, the public drinking water would be a problem. In addition, because of interference with satellite signals, GPS positioning system would be a waste. Actually at the beginning of 1859 similar cases have occurred, blasting the solar storm as it even had the fire damaged ngakibatkan telegraph network. Of course now the earth is full of wired and wireless facilities, but this facility is difficult to withstand the test of solar storms.
When a strong solar storm strikes, the human race on earth will face two major problems. First, it is about modern power grid. Modern power grids are now in general use high voltage to cover a wider area, this will allow more efficient electricity grid operation, you can reduce electricity losses during transmission, and electrical losses due to excessive production. However, collectively it has also become more vulnerable to attack by space weather. transmission network will become very vulnerable and unstable, or possibly even causing a total halt. and this is just the first domino effect, then perhaps it will also cause "traffic paralyzed, interrupted communications, financial industry collapsed and chaotic public facilities; pump stops lead to drinking water supplies cut off, the lack of refrigeration facilities, food and medicines are difficult to store effective. Scientists have estimated the intensity of solar storms when there are strong may cause loss of human social and economic development, only the first year alone the loss of 1-2 trillion U.S. dollars, while the recovery and reconstruction is required at least 4-10 years
The second issue is about the problem of power grid system of mutual dependence that support our modern life, such as water and waste handling problems, the problem of logistics infrastructure supermarkets, electrical substation control issues, financial and other markets that depend on electricity. If the two issues combined into one, we can clearly see that the event appears likely return of Carrington solar storms is very likely to cause major disasters are rare. Adviser special report from the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and the electric power industry analyst John Kappenman consider "Disasters like this compared to the usual disasters that we imagine the total opposite. usually less developed areas prone to disaster attack, but in this disaster, the region's growing more vulnerable to catastrophic attack. "Preparing Not Human
Facing the possibility of a serious disaster had befallen the will, the United States and the rest of mankind does not respond immediately to prepare for a job well in the face of the next round of solar storms. Becker said that because of the possibility of large scale solar storms is very small, "The whole community does not even respond, but only noticed the problem before the eyes". To the weather on Earth, scientists can track weather the storm that will hit over the next few days, and issue appropriate warnings to local residents, but solar storms or space weather is completely different. Backer said that today we still can not accurately predict the timing and strength of solar storms, which can be predicted by me and my colleagues only if a large solar storm struck, we were absolutely not able to handle it. "
This is similar to a hurricane disaster early warning and humans on earth, today mankind primarily depends 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 improvement and significant reduction in the number of sunspots every 11 years. Cycle is calculated starting from the lowest sunspot activity on the sun. In the active period will be increased sunspot, solar storms that occur will be more. When a solar storm occurs, the high-speed particles and the flow of ions which are formed by electrically charged particles emitted by a massive layer of the sun will affect the earth's magnetic field, ionosphere and neutral atmosphere. In the matter of the impact of the dangers of solar storms, more than a century, people continue to monitor sunspot activity.
Based on the phenomena occurring on the surface of the sun and the sunspot cycle data that occurred before, scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR, the United States, succeeded in developing a new model of solar dynamics science. With the new model, the astronomers could provide 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 earlier years in order to get ready face the sun's 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, the United States said that, if it is premature to predict solar storm activity, people will be able to better cope with problems such as communication, satellite failures, power outages, and threats to astronauts and other things . (Erabaru.or.id / lim)