Azzaman

Why do you speak of things that you have no intimate knowledge from a position of such power? You're allowed to say you don't know, you realise that right? I am intimately involved with people who are involved with GIC research and the effects of geomagnetic storms on the Earth's power grids, and literally everything you said is completely wrong. I went to a talk a few years back by Paul Cannon, former president of URSI, who presented research to suggest that a Carrington class solar storm would cause problems in the UK power grid, as you would expect from such a powerful storm, but would not "set world civilisation back 200 years". You are speaking from a position of great privilege. People trust what you say. So why do you use this position to spread utter nonsense? Things that have been proven by the relevant scientific community to be complete nonsense. Please, for the sake of science, stop.

I talked with a collaborator of mine literally today who is directly involved with this research, and they were talking about new technology that is designed to completely mitigate the effect of GIC on transformers. There would be no 200-year set-backs, there would be no multi-trillion dollar damage. Please, please, please. As a physicist who works in this area. Stop talking about things that you don't know about. Stop spreading misinformation. If you're going to answer questions regarding these areas speak to an expert. Nobody will think less of you for it, and it will be better for humanity if you stop spreading complete and utter nonsense to the masses.

Literally in this thread. He is talking about the effects of solar flares on the Earth and the Earth's power grids, and he has no intimate knowledge of these areas. The views he has espoused in these areas are completely contrary to the currently held views of the actual experts in these areas, and in no way reflect the current science.

That's pretty expensive from what I experienced in Antarctica. At Scott Base just down the road the beers were $1 and the wine and mixed drinks weren't much more.

When I was at Scott Base I was told that the US was thinking about sticking an undersea cable in between McMurdo and NZ - do you know anything about that?

Not to mention the Tatty Flag at Scott Base just down the road.