ON A SCALE OF 1 TO 10, THIS IS HOW CLOSE WE ARE TO SHTF
Allselfsustained.com
Mar. 24, 2016
While I know that many people have varying opinions on this, I think that it is important that we take a look and just how close we are and why I know that we are closer than many people realize. Let’s start with the different things that I think could set off SHTF in a relatively short time frame. While there are many scenarios that could bring on Armageddon, I am more concerned with the ones that could happen in less than a 24 hour period or without further notice. This limits the field down a bit and will allow me to cover it in a single post. These are nuclear attack, EMP attack, solar blast, Cyber-attack and invasion from outside forces. Let’s take a look at each of these. While some may disagree with the last one, I feel it merits a place on this list which I will get to later.
Cyber Attack – Cyber-attack is one of the largest threats facing our country at this point in time. It is believed to be coming from many different countries including China, Russia and the Middle East. Hundreds of thousands of times a week the US is hit by an attempted Cyber-attack on our National electric infrastructure as well as our Military Defense systems. It is only a matter of time until they find a way to penetrate them and when they do its game over! Things we depend on every day would disappear in a moment without warning. What many people don’t realize is that they don’t just want to turn off our power; they want to destroy it so we can never bring it back online. It is possible and only a matter of time according to most experts in the field. This one I give 8 out of ten because it is basically already underway.
Solar Blast – Earth dodged one of the most massive magnetic solar bursts ever on July 23, 2012, scientists with the University of California, Berkeley revealed on Wednesday — saving the planet from widespread havoc.
“Had it hit Earth, it probably would have been like the big one in 1859, but the effect today, with our modern technologies, would have been tremendous,” UC Berkeley research physicist Janet G. Luhmann said in a press release.
The 2012 massive magnetic cloud sped through space at over 1,200 miles per second, four times faster than a typical burst of solar power.
According to researchers, had the quick succession of coronal mass ejections (CMEs)– the most intense kind of solar eruptions — come nine days earlier, they would have hit Earth, potentially disabled satellites and GPS, and even affected the electrical grid.
A similar event in March 1989 caused Canada’s Hydro-Quebec power grid to collapse and left six million people with no electricity for nine hours.
“The cost of an extreme space weather event, if it hits Earth, could reach trillions of dollars with a potential recovery time of 4-10 years,” professor at China’s State Key Laboratory of Space Weather Ying D. Liu warned in a press release. “Therefore, it is paramount to the security and economic interest of the modern society to understand solar superstorms.”
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