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Not much
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No, nothing creepy there.
There have been land plants and animals living on Earth for over 400 million years. So we can say for certain that during that vast stretch of time the Sun has not done anything that would make life on land impossible, like the disaster shown in the movie. What are the chances that an event like that will happen in the next million years? Probably very slim. In the next 6 months? Effectively zero.
So that part of the movie is pure fantasy.
Solar storms are real and happen often. No-one dies from them. The worst effect from a solar storm in recent years was a 9-hour power failure in Canada in 1989.
Oil spills happened before the movie (Exxon Valdez). Oil rig explosions happened before the movie (Piper Alpha).
There have been land plants and animals living on Earth for over 400 million years. So we can say for certain that during that vast stretch of time the Sun has not done anything that would make life on land impossible, like the disaster shown in the movie. What are the chances that an event like that will happen in the next million years? Probably very slim. In the next 6 months? Effectively zero.
So that part of the movie is pure fantasy.
Solar storms are real and happen often. No-one dies from them. The worst effect from a solar storm in recent years was a 9-hour power failure in Canada in 1989.
Oil spills happened before the movie (Exxon Valdez). Oil rig explosions happened before the movie (Piper Alpha).
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I think you need to remember that the MOVIE was 'pretend'.... FICTION.... something made up to make a good show that you'd pay money to go see..... there is so little real SCIENCE in that movie, it's a darned shame..... what they did was take the worst possible happenings they could come up with and put them all together to SCARE folks.... just like they do with the chainsaw movies.... there's nothing major going to occur on Earth from a solar flare, other than some lovely auroras, maybe a little glitch in a satellite or radio..... we've been being hit with the 'stuff' from flares for millions of years and we're just fine, right?.... and we'll stay just fine..... so relax and get on with your day......
and, yes, there was a black out back in 1896 or so.... that was before we learned to protect our electic lines!!....we're a lot smarter now.... give our science folks a little credit, huh?.....
and, yes, there was a black out back in 1896 or so.... that was before we learned to protect our electic lines!!....we're a lot smarter now.... give our science folks a little credit, huh?.....
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Yeah but unlike in the movie real solar storms happen almost every single day. They can not cause any major problems here on Earth.(period) They only affect electronics. Cell phone calls can be dropped, cable TV can go fuzzy, or if one is really, really bad a power grid could get overloaded with all the charged particles and fail. This actually has happened during solar storms in the past. The power is only out as long as it takes to replace the damaged electronics at the power station, so absolute worst case scenario the power is out for a couple of hours. A good ole fashioned Earth thunderstorm can cause the power to go out for longer than that.... The media is only hyping this up to a) generate ratings and b) due to ignorance. Ignorance both on their part and on the part of the people they know will be reading their stories. We're getting close to a period of time that occurs EVERY 11 years where the Sun has more solar storms than normal. One per day or so. Even in extremely slow times we have one every other week or so. You have lived through literally THOUSANDS of these solar storms in your lifetime and didn't even notice.
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I think it will cause earthqaukes it just takes a while, its like the day is the hottest around 3 pm even though the sun has been up for 6 hours and its 3 hours afternoon. So the Solar Flare damage will happen like 7-10 days from now, Massive Earthquakes and maybe Tsunamis