Proper Dooooom! The Sky is Falling!

[alluvial]

Hang on the full severity of this is hitting home now....How would I invoice if my laptop was fried!

Just use old tech - paper and pen.

[woohoo]

Hang on the full severity of this is hitting home now....How would I invoice if my laptop was fried!

[NickFitz]

De-doomed: Keep Calm: The Truth About The Huge Solar Flare That Just Missed Earth - Forbes

"What seems to be going on here is that NASA put out a press release on Wednesday rehashing the details of the 2012 flare and the research that’s been dripping out over the past year. It’s actually a great primer on space weather and the potential damage that can be done by huge coronal mass ejections, including the last time the planet was actually in the firing line. That happened over 150 years ago. By the way, that event — known as the Carrington event — did not vaporize any people, animals or planets, but it did do damage to telegraph lines and create some epic northern lights as far south as Tahiti."

[EternalOptimist]

Probably lots of space aliens 60 light years away listening to Hancock's Half Hour.

yep, and they have a green guy with seven tentacles, with one sucker on the big red button that fires the inter-galactic Bazoomatron. As soon as he detects big brother or twitter, his job is to press the button

[barrydidit]

There's always the Aga.

Unless it's a gas or LPG one...

You need one of these bad boys: Ironheart - Multi-fuel cooking stove that burns logs beautifully Just like Hugh Fearnley Whatsit - I bet he's ok in this scenario (till the starving masses descend on him..)

[Bunk]

Valve transmitters are very easy to make.

And I've got a shedload (literally) of valves to do it with.

Maybe I'd better get started, so I'm ahead of the game & don't need to use a poke heated on an open fire as a soldering iron.

Can you make a valve record player so that you've something to play over the air too please?

I'm assuming that would be easier than a valve MP3 player?

[xoggoth]

It would be great listening to all those old programmes again

Probably lots of space aliens 60 light years away listening to Hancock's Half Hour.

[EternalOptimist]

Probably someone with a valve transmitter.

It would be great listening to all those old programmes again.

[Bunk]

Probably someone with a valve transmitter.

It's you isn't it? You're going to be the only one broadcasting and the only one listening

[xoggoth]

I was going to do a thread on this one but then couldn't be arsed as Zeity was bound to do it for me. Thanks boy. Now make me a toasted cheese sandwich.

PS Old battery AM radios make great wire detectors.

[Bunk]

Maybe I'd better do some work on that battery powered portable wireless I bought off ebay.

Um, Zeity? Who's going to be broadcasting?

[Bunk]

Gulp.

Everyone round to zeity's - he knows how to grow cabbage

He can't cook it though, so we're still f***ed, and not in a good way

[mudskipper]

Oh well.

[barrydidit]

All the skills of the Information Age become instantly useless once a massive solar flare wipes out the electronics.

Gulp.

Everyone round to zeity's - he knows how to grow cabbage

[zeitghost]

NASA sounds red alert over solar flare that nearly wiped out human civilization two summers ago - NaturalNews.com

All gone in an instant!

Nothing with a chip in it will work!

Riots in the streets!



I'm not altogether sure why everything electronic gets zapped.

Stuff connected to networks such as the mains and telephone, yes, but everything?

Must be one hell of an EMP for that.

Thank heavens for my Murphy B40 and Racal RA17 receivers.

They're stuffed full of valves.

Sadly, no 'lectrick to make them work though.

Ho hum.

Maybe I'd better do some work on that battery powered portable wireless I bought off ebay.

Then again, maybe a CME isn't such a bad thing:

https://tv.yahoo.com/news/john-olive...125900969.html

John Oliver Warns That Nuclear Annihilation is Just About Inevitable