The "WAGD" post of the day

I first read about this in the 1970's, but with an expected increase in solar flares and terrorist bombs, USAToday has the latest "WAGD" (we're all gonna DIE") flap that solar flares or an EMP could shut down the world...and gives these examples.


• On July 9, 1962, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Defense Atomic Support Agency detonated the Starfish Prime, a 1.4-megaton H-bomb test at an altitude of 250 miles, some 900 miles southwest of Hawaii over the Pacific Ocean. The pulse shorted out streetlights in Oahu.

• On March 9, 1989, the sun spat a million-mile-wide blast of high-temperature charged solar gas straight at the Earth. The "coronal mass ejection" struck the planet three days later, triggering a geomagnetic storm that made the northern lights visible in Texas. The storm also induced currents in Quebec's power grid that knocked out power for 6 million people in Canada and the USA for at least nine hours....

well, we have a generator, and our jeep doesn't have a computerized engine, so we should be okay.