WI: The 2012 Solar Superstorm Hits Earth

During July 23rd, 2012, a massive coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun was one week away from hitting the Earth. But let's say that the event happened during July 16th instead and it ends up becoming another Carrington Event. The Superstorm hits and entire power grids get knocked out, along with our entire space infrastructure (probably forever). The superstorm fries satellite and telephone lines, disrupting global communication. The internet, military communication, and automated bank services are offline. Now that a cataclysmic event has struck the entire world, casing nation-wide blackouts, let's see how this would affect major events during 2012.

  • The U.S Presidential election between Obama and Romney was ongoing
  • The Eurozone had only recently recovered after bailing out the banks during the European debt crisis
  • Hu Jintao still ruled China as the paramount leader and had not yet handed over power to Xi Jiping
  • The Syrian Civil War began to escalate, with the Houla massacre putting an end to the U.N-mandated ceasefire
  • A new Insurgency in Iraq had recently begun, with the Islamic state staging a series of attacks against the government
  • Gaddafi was recently overthrown, leading to violence between loyalists, regionalists, Islamists, and the Libyan Army
  • Mohamed Morsi of the controversial Muslim Brotherhood Party had been elected as President of Egypt
  • The Mali Civil war broke out after Northern and Islamist insurgencies rebelled against the Southern government
  • Hurricane Sandy and Typhoon Pablo occurred (and would be much worse without satellites monitoring the storm)
 
Well if there is Nationwide blackouts people will start to starve within a few Days even in highly developed nations.
 
3000 years from now historians will debate what caused the collapse of the ______ Culture, & if it were a global event or regional. Also was a actually a gradual change, or something abrupt. But what possibly could cause such a abrupt change?
 

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During July 23rd, 2012, a massive coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun was one week away from hitting the Earth. But let's say that the event happened during July 16th instead and it ends up becoming another Carrington Event. The Superstorm hits and entire power grids get knocked out, along with our entire space infrastructure (probably forever). The superstorm fries satellite and telephone lines, disrupting global communication. The internet, military communication, and automated bank services are offline. Now that a cataclysmic event has struck the entire world, casing nation-wide blackouts, let's see how this would affect major events during 2012.

  • The U.S Presidential election between Obama and Romney was ongoing
  • The Eurozone had only recently recovered after bailing out the banks during the European debt crisis
  • Hu Jintao still ruled China as the paramount leader and had not yet handed over power to Xi Jiping
  • The Syrian Civil War began to escalate, with the Houla massacre putting an end to the U.N-mandated ceasefire
  • A new Insurgency in Iraq had recently begun, with the Islamic state staging a series of attacks against the government
  • Gaddafi was recently overthrown, leading to violence between loyalists, regionalists, Islamists, and the Libyan Army
  • Mohamed Morsi of the controversial Muslim Brotherhood Party had been elected as President of Egypt
  • The Mali Civil war broke out after Northern and Islamist insurgencies rebelled against the Southern government
  • Hurricane Sandy and Typhoon Pablo occurred (and would be much worse without satellites monitoring the storm)
US Military communications and Satellites are hardened against EMP like events - plus there are some forms of military communications that would work even in a nuclear war environment without satellites or terrestrial communications infrastructure. I worked on a HF communications rig in the 1990s that was able to communicate from the US West to the Philippines during the Vietnam war. So the US military would most likely be able to keep communicating.
 
move back soceity 50 years in some milltarty bases in some parts of the world 100- 150 years this will be one of the worst diasters in human history
 
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