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The Chaos When Our Grid Goes Down - Bill Whittle
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The Chaos When Our Grid Goes Down - Bill Whittle
The power grid could be fried by: solar flares, overhead nuke detonation, cyber attack, sabotage, etc.

But don't worry, it'll "never happen".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdCaV3ELvsM
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RE: The Chaos When Our Grid Goes Down - Bill Whittle
The sky is falling.


https://archive.org/download/Y2K_USA1999/Y2K_512kb.mp4

I bet my bicycle will still work.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? Huh
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RE: The Chaos When Our Grid Goes Down - Bill Whittle
I always hear about the impending doom from supposed solar flares and sunspots but nothing ever fucking happens how about one remote blackout, for even just a minute, occurs due too sun activity, then I might care
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RE: The Chaos When Our Grid Goes Down - Bill Whittle
There is always someone selling doom and the American public is too willing to buy.
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RE: The Chaos When Our Grid Goes Down - Bill Whittle
I'd rather worry about things I can control personally.
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RE: The Chaos When Our Grid Goes Down - Bill Whittle
(December 21, 2014 at 3:30 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I'd rather worry about things I can control personally.
I find your fatalism disturbing.
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RE: The Chaos When Our Grid Goes Down - Bill Whittle
(December 21, 2014 at 3:58 am)mralstoner Wrote:
(December 21, 2014 at 3:30 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I'd rather worry about things I can control personally.
I find your fatalism disturbing.

It's hardly fatalism. Can I prevent a nuclear strike? Or a solar flare? How about harden infrastructure from same?

I can do those things about as well as I can prevent earth from being struck by a life I extinguishing asteroid.

I'm not going to lose sleep over it. However, I do believe in disaster preparedness, and that's something I am empowered to do.
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RE: The Chaos When Our Grid Goes Down - Bill Whittle
Whenever I look at so called American documentary channels, there's always something on like "killers from outer space". Some meteortie or comet is going to get us, or solar flares are destroying our infrastructure. Seems to me, these programs like to spread fear and panic for a living, regardless of how remote the possibility of something like this happening. The sad thing about it, people like to gobble up bullshit.
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RE: The Chaos When Our Grid Goes Down - Bill Whittle
(December 21, 2014 at 12:02 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: However, I do believe in disaster preparedness, and that's something I am empowered to do.

^Yes, this.^

I'm amazed how many people I have known over the years who refuse to heed the simple, common-sense advice to have an adequate emergency supply of water, non-perishable food, fuel/power sources that don't rely on the grid or gas stations, battery-powered radios/transmitters, and a basic supply of tools (including weapons/ammo for self defense) in the event of a major disaster. You don't have to be some survivalist nut job to understand that, sophisticated as our technological society is, it hangs by a proverbial thread and can be severely disrupted by forces entirely beyond our control.

Take care to make adequate preparations, and then don't lose sleep over it.
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RE: The Chaos When Our Grid Goes Down - Bill Whittle
(December 21, 2014 at 12:02 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(December 21, 2014 at 3:58 am)mralstoner Wrote: I find your fatalism disturbing.

It's hardly fatalism. Can I prevent a nuclear strike? Or a solar flare? How about harden infrastructure from same?

I can do those things about as well as I can prevent earth from being struck by a life I extinguishing asteroid.

I'm not going to lose sleep over it. However, I do believe in disaster preparedness, and that's something I am empowered to do.

That was probably his point. You do what you can, not nothing.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
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