6/13/18 - Rocks Under I-95 Present Odd, and Scary, Threat to Power Grid

[NHCraigT]

LINK: Rocks Under I-95 Present Odd, and Scary, Threat to Power Grid

... Here’s something you probably didn’t know you needed to worry about: There’s a layer of 300 million-year-old rock under Interstate 95 that’s capable of killing the lights from Washington to Boston and beyond the next time the sun erupts in all its fury...

That’s because this Paleozoic-era rock doesn’t let the energy from a major geomagnetic storm -- a once-in-a-100-years kind of event -- pass through it but instead acts as a backstop that sends the surge back up above the ground for a second shot at causing mayhem.

.... It’s an active problem that a lot of people are trying to solve and understand,” said Christopher Balch, space scientist at the Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado....

 

[DarthRevan]

Better stock up on bread and milk, and car batteries to hook up to our poorly installed green credit solar panels we all have now.

 

[Gator9329]

Are we adding rocks to the ban list now?

 

[greencobra]

Are we adding rocks to the ban list now?

just the old ones...

 

[lancecolonel]

just the old ones...

the rare conundrum where something post ban is more desirable.

 

[snd1t]

Wait......tossing NY/Boston and the entire i-95 corridor back into the stone age is sub optimal?

Sounds like a solution to our bad legislation issues from these nuggets.....

 

[enbloc]

stupid rocks.

 

[slap shot]

just the old ones...

No preban grandfathering?

 

[greencobra]

No preban grandfathering?

 

[enbloc]

The smart money would be to build an entire city Under those protective rocks...

 

[Yazz]

The smart money would be to build an entire city Under those protective rocks...

That's where the Lizards are!

 

[enbloc]

That's where the Lizards are!

I know. I'm counting on it...

 

[HorizontalHunter]

Are they carved........

 

[JayMcB]

Bring it!

 

[Palladin]

patiently waiting.....

 

[JohnZ]

Shape the rocks so the energy is reflected at washington dc. win win.

 

[Prepper]

That's where the Lizards are!

No that is silly... Everyone knows they are crab people.

 

[AllaSnackbah]

Wait......tossing NY/Boston and the entire i-95 corridor back into the stone age is sub optimal?

Sounds like a solution to our bad legislation issues from these nuggets.....

Seriously. Even if it was only for a few weeks, you could get alot done in that time.

 

[neum69]

The smart money would be to build an entire city Under those protective rocks...

Maybe thats what Elon Musk is REALLY doing with his boring co

 

[inkdesigner]

That's where the Lizards are!

I, for one, will happily welcome our new Lizard overlords

 

[Orion2k]

Could be categorized as "Assault Rocks"?

 

[AHM]

Better stock up on bread and milk, ...

Spoiler: Artist's conception

Are we adding rocks to the ban list now?

Certainly the ones in the high-capacity buckets littering our schoolrooms.

stupid rocks.

Spoiler: Bring it on, baby

Could be categorized as "Assault Basalt Rocks"?

FTFY.

 

[namedpipes]

I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer -Bones

 

[AHM]

I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer -Bones

Horta posts go in some other thread.
Not sure at this juncture how I can find it, though.

 

[namedpipes]

Horta posts go in some other thread.
Not sure at this juncture how I can find it, though.

 

[BTSDOG]

Maybe it’ll screw up Ct’s plans to put up electronic tolling......

 

[AHM]

Horta posts go in some other thread.
Not sure at this juncture how I can find it, though.

Choice, one of the following:

1. Feeler Silipint Group Buy
2. Bypass Surgery - what to expect

Plus a broken link to a picture of Horta eggs in the "RBG cancer surgery" thread
that (I can't fix because it) is write-locked.

 

[Shark_Cage]

Maura is crafting a memo

 

[AHM]

Maura is crafting a memo

The chair is against the wall.

 

[Len-2A Training]

The chair is against the wall.

John has a long mustache!