What happens to our solar if the poles flip?

oil pan 4 said:

The earths magnetic field lost 10% of its strength between 2000 and 2015.
It does appear to be happening and no one is sure what all the effects will be.

That is a great deal in fifteen years. It is my understanding that the magnetic field helps shield us from most solar flares. Guessing that studying this would fold into the study of geophysics. My deceased brother would have perhaps been helpful to understand this. He wrote articles and gave talks about geophysical aspects of oil exploration. Notably electrical methodology.

Dave Angelini said:

Estragon said:

Possible or conceivable, but likely not "easy". There's no such thing as a completely secure computer, but if it was easy, it would likely have happened by now. No shortage of well-resourced whack jobs in the world who have no doubt tried.

You got it!  A  well coordinated cyber attack can do the same thing as as an EMP or Flare and very hard to trace the perpetrators. Some say that the Malware is already in some of the powerplants lying in wait. China and Russia could do this if they wanted. We probably taught them how

The part about it being easy, I am not going to go into the details in the book because it is even worse than I want to go into. It basically does the job of the EMP by burning of the Key transformers that are so hard to replace. This snowballs into a very very bad situation.

There is a very nice way to prevent this also in the book.

Finished "Lights Out" this morning. I seem to have missed this part "There is a very nice way to prevent this also in the book."

My take is that Ted was selling us on the idea of giving up what privacy is left so the NSA could more thoroughly determine attempts to breach our energy infrastructure and shut down those efforts. Sort of reminds me of turning the internet over to Skynet so it could swat down the global virus....that was created by Skynet. Sound far fetched? QAnon/NSA was recently bragging that the NSA had backdoors built into all electronics of the past ten years and consequently "Knows everything". Thus bringing us up to date on NSA activities now that Snowden has grown inactive. Yet QAnon is actively hunting Snowden. 

QAnon then went on to "take on" Eric Schmidt of Google, Elon Musk of Tesla, Gates of Microsoft, Bezos of Amazon, the CEO of Reddit, Debbie Schwarzerman of DNC, Podesta of DNC, Clinton. This is going off of January memories. QAnon doesn't seem very interested in the stock market or the possibility of revenge. Revenge seems to have arrived. Google/YouTube apparently just hired "10,000 social justice warriors" who are shutting down many news feeds of the "far right" due to "fake news" or "bullying" etc. This may get much more interesting and quite soon.

I'd like to say this mostly current speculation and the truth should come out soon enough. However, as many of us know, truth is the first victim of politically driven ideologues. 

Interesting that we are supposedly #1 in offense for attacking power grids and extremely weak on defense of our vulnerable power grids. 

As for the oh so well prepared Mormons that David A. mentioned? Yes....they have made very impressive preparations. The government will certainly enjoy seizing those assets when the need arises. 

Yes.....I am convinced that cyber hackers attacking and shutting down much or most of the national power grid is a very significant threat. Few are aware of just how difficult and time consuming it is to replace transformers that costs millions and sometimes weigh millions of pounds. "Millions of pounds?" That is almost hard to believe in a way. I was unable to easily find what transformers are primarily made of.

If most of the grid is taken down by hostile hackers, it would be the military seizing whatever they needed....I am guessing. That is one thing we are definitely #1 in.....I think we could "run the table" with  surprise and sound military tactics. I'd probably rather be managed by Mormons but that's just me. 

Sheer speculation on my part. Losing the grid represents a catastrophe of unthinkable proportions. Far worse than anything encountered in the world history that I am aware of. First year fatalities are projected to reach 90%. Not sure I would want to deal with that scenario. Maybe 50%...tops. 

BB in SF....everyones favorite mod? With his bug out bag and tent? Awwww.....

Horsefly said:

I don't mean this to offend, but if we are to the point of bringing up wacky conspiracy theories like those of Q anon on a solar energy board, I suspect we have not only drifted off-topic, but we probably need to find some new hobbies.  Just my opinion.

I'll now wait to see some flat-earth threads.   

edited.........

There are both conspiracy theories and conspiracy fact. They should not be confused. 

The following  DDoS attack took less than a minute after posting. The first one since I had to get a new router and service due to........DDoS attacks. Time for a thread on changing router passwords?

Now I am also locked out of changing my router password. Gosh....who coulda dunnit? Especially considering the VPN employed.....

mike95490 said:

Configure your new router off line before connecting to the internet.

See if there is DD-WRT or Tomato firmware for it, flash it, configure it, then hook up.

But my guess is a virus in your computer. No real benefit to hacking routers of home users.

Scan with malwarebytes, burn a Avira Rescue Disk CD, boot and scan to be sure.

No need for a virus. They can simply install all the desired software they want via their updates. For example, this is what my Opera program currently looks like:  OK.......paste isn't working. They installed 13 different adjuncts to Opera on 2/15/18...while removing my ability to conduct Restore operations. There are "no Restore points" anymore. 

No malware.....to easy to find and remove. Just use Microsoft to surreptitiously add whatever is wanted. They didn't even bother to hide what their sub-routines did until last month. 

I've known my computers are their toys for a long time. DDoS attacks are just low.