Sunday, August 29, 2010

FAKE MIRACLE: Flying Dome of Mosque in Nepal

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whole article here which explain what happening in that fake miracle

FAKE MIRACLE :: Flying Dome of Mosque in Nepal !


Assalam Alaykum,
Praise be to Allah swt,
Today i'm going to discuss about this claimed miracle associated to Allah SWT.
Thanks to Allah Swt for helping me,indeed all praise be to Allah,without his help,i was not able to do any thing.
Through the Internet we often receive an email that talks about 'evidence of Allah's greatness or miracle of Islam' or 'miracles of Allah' without any proof, Usually, the news are in the form of a surprising: the form of images or natural events that are 'strange' or unusual that muslims believe on it…
but before we trust on such pictures or contents …i want to ask you
1. Have we ever inquired or questioned the authenticity of such images when you recieve in email,or see in facebook pages/ gallery?
2. Honestly, do we need to proof the truth of Islam or the greatness of Allah this way?
What ever im going to say here is result of my research done for the claimed Miracle know as Dome Flying Mosque in Nepal.

MIRACLE

These days on internet there is a very popular video,saying Allah help in Mosque in nepal or Flying dome of Mosque in Nepal some saying in Indonecia.

THE VIDEO :




THE BIG QUESTION IS , IS IT REALLY MIRACLE OF ALLAH SWT ????? OR JUST LIE….?????? Lets Analyse the Video.

{My First View and Reason to do this}

I saw this video approx 1 yr before,but i ignored it…becoz it was not very popular,but today im exposing this becoz now this lie is spreading like a fire,among muslims,from desktop to mobile.Every where.
There are many Brother and Sisters who believes on this video.and they are busy in sharing with others, without thinking twice What if this is FAKE?
They forgot that its unauthorized content,having no proof,
before sharing you must verify the info,if you are not doing,you will be held responsible in the court of Allah SWT for whatever you have said or done.
Unfortunately, many brother and sisters DO not care for this ,in order to save my brother and sisters from gaining bad deeds i'm exposing the facts of this claimed miracle! Since there is hadith which says
What ever i wish for my self,i must wish same for other brother and sisters,
I wish Jannah for my self,and want the same for others too…

My Belief on Miracles :

Please note that im fully aware of greatness of Allah Swt,i'm not here to challenge the power of ALLAH SWT .
I also know that when ever Allah swt want to do any thing,
He the most High just have to say "be" and It is….
The Originator of the heavens and the earth, Allah Almighty, When He decreeth a thing, He says unto it only: Be! and it is. Surah Al-baqarah : 117
There are many miracles,which generally peoples IGNORE.
Is not DNA a Miracle ?
Are the Sun and Moon not Miracles ?
Is not growth of Plant is Miracle..?
Is not DEATH is Miracle ?
IS not Firaun Dead Body is a Miracle ?
IS not Quran a Miracle ?
I truly and 100% beliefs in the Miracles of Allah SWT and His Greatness.
but i can't accept fake ,un authorised contents as his miracles .
here my motive is to bring truth in front of you and stop brothers and sisters for spreading wrong informations by which they are gaining sins with/without knowledge.


{ Different stories with this Video }


story 1
There was a new mosque or masjid in Malibu Island that was still under construction however had no crane to lift and transfer the dome from the old masjid to the new masjid.
So about 3000 alims gathered nearthe masjid to do zikirullah.
With ALLAH's help, the dome was lifted and trasferred by just their zikir.
It was also told that these alims had did fasting for 3 days and did qiyammulai for 3 nights prior to the dome lifting.


story 2
Incident took place in nepal where the local people were building a masjid. They were worried about the dome to be placed over the minaret as they dint had any crane facility so they decided to call for allah's help as they started to make dua and ask for help from allah the dome was placed on the minaret in a miraculous way. subhan allah


story 3


ALLAHU AKBAR! Yes it's miracle of "ALLAH". Happend in Nepal. Govt didnt allowed the crane for Mosque minar and said that `go and ask your ALLAH to help you. Allah helps muslim by putting gunbad on menar without any support, since, non muslims dont allow muslims to use crane to lift gunbad, so the imam of mosque saw our beloved prophet pbuh in dream who told him just cover the gunbad with white bed sheet and then see.


story 4


It was in Ternate, Indonesia, and the dome was about to be placed on top of a mosquetower, suddenly it flew by itself and landed on top of the tower where it supposed to be placed. Subhanallah..


story 5


he attached video clip was received from a friend of mine. This incident happened early this year (2008) in a remote Island of Malibu (Indonesia). Anew mosque was built in a village on that island of Malibu. Unfortunately the villagers do not have a Heavy Duty Crane to uplift the Dome from the old mosque to the newly built Mosque's Minaret.
About 3000 Imaams gathered in the mosque to perform Dhikirullah. With Allah's Rahmah, the Dome from the old mosque was lifted up to the new mosque's Minaret with the power of Dhikirullah.
According to the person who recorded this clip, all the Imaams have fasted for 3 days and did Qiamullayl and have pleaded for Allah s.w.t Mercy for this 3 days prior to performing the Dhikirullah and lifting the Dome.
It was reported that many of the people there became hysteria upon seeing this incident.
This event proves us the strength of one's Imaan, Dhikirullah and Taqwa. May Allah s.w.t strengthens our Imaan and be good Muslims. Ameen………!!!!!


story 6


ASSALAAM U ALAIKUM WA REHMAT ULLAH
{ this incident of dome is exactly 100 % true } { and more over this miracle had been seen by thousand's of muslim's andnon muslim's } { as the imaam of this mosque has not enough money for hanging this dome upside of the mosque well then collecting some money from some muslim brother's but it was not enough amount demanded by the christian constructor well they all went to the constructor and asked him to lift up the dome at the top of the mosque but they haven't that much amount as demanded they have some of them and they said please accept this amount and take it and continue your work .it's our request and then the christian constructor smiled and said '" ask from your allah and muhammad to lift up the dome " { and then they all went back to their homes .
The imam of this masjid was in a great tension and he went to sleep and in his dream's he saw the personalities of personalities { hazrat muhammad sal lal laa hu alaihee walee hee wassalaam }
{ and hazrat muhammad said to the imam of masjid " place the white cloth on the dome and the dome will lift it self at the top of the mosque "}
{ and at morning they all place the white cloth on the dome according to my muhammad sal lal hu alaihee wassallam said } and then the miracle's of miracle of my allah happened in front of thousand's of people the dome itself lift's up to it's place and the dome is placed right at the top of the mosque subhan allah }
{ allah u akbar}
{must watch,read and share it with your muslim brother's and sister's}
{ regard's muslim}
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Interesting stories indeed,such stories that a muslim will believe it

but with the help from Allah i found that this MIRACLE IS COMPLETELY FAKE. ALL THE ABOVE EXPLAINED STORIES ARE BASELESS PACK OF LIE.
from the very first day i didn;t believed on video and i knew that its Fake miracle,Alhamdulilah my guess and thoughts were right and with the help from Allah I'm going to present the truth in front of you.

YES,THIS VIDEO IS NOT MIRACLE,FAKE CLAIMED MIRACLE…ASSOCIATED TO ALLAH SWT.

{the mosque place}

If you see a glimpse of flight recordings dome mosque in Kailolo village in Central Maluku, 25 km from Ambon, was enough to make us wonder. Because the dome is supposedly preached that weighs thousands of pounds, can fly without the aid of floating devices floating around in space .

The News agency part from video proofs that its from Indonesia..not NEPAL. NEPAL PART IS LIE.

{the real story}

The dome is said to be floating, while it is lifted using the cable, pull cable to raise the dome of the mosque used since time immemorial without using a crane with a system of Pulleys.
The dome is moving to top like cable car movement.

{Why you can't see cable}

The Camera used for this capture was bad camera,not good resolution…this much bad that it cant show the wires on Electric pole.. see here


{How to Determine Cable?}

use math, angle, view angle every time the dome of the wind and you will be able to axis. If you see the panorama shows a white line along the lines indicated.
there is a subtle white wire with the clouds, so in our eyes, the wire is not visible becoz background is also white.

In areas that have been illuminated by it, there were three stretch of the rope that supported the dome.
In areas that have been illuminated by it, there were three stretch of the rope that supported the dome.

Here, more clearly visible. Second stretch of rope seen against the background of a contrasting tile house.



{Now watch the Cable on TOP}

The cable is not clearly visible due to white background.but still some traces are there!



IN SMALL VIEW




{ Supporting Cable}


In this Entire Process there are 3 Wires supporting this DOME MOVEMENT…:) look above pic…!
If not,then what is the use of there ropes/wires…? Indeed to pull the wire so that the dome go on top.

Conclusion :

In conclusion, the dome is not flying, but being pulled by a rope. Only the perception of society that makes the dome fly.
The Above Analysis proves that this all is done with the machines,using 3 wires to pull dome above which can be seen on the back of minarates.
If You think this analysis is wrong,please come forward with the proofs…
This Video is showing the movement of Dome,its being done by wires,the wires are not clearly visible due to bad camera and white back ground,in some parts the traces of wires are visible,which is shown in above pictures…
as you can see the wires which is very close to phone,is not visible in video.
This video is also not taken by the Trans 7 news Agency,becoz News Reporters can;t have such bad quality camera.
The Channel Trans 7 first time Aired this video,without any proof.
If the Incident is true,then why this news was not reported by Any other news agency,or in local newspapers ?

Advice to Muslim Brother and Sisters

Dear Brother and Sisters,
Please note that when ever you are sharing any content with your friends and family,then you must verify it ,Its True or False…I'm not saying these words,these are the commands of ALLAH SWT.
And do not follow (blindly) any information of which you have no (direct) knowledge. (Using your faculties of perception and conception, you must verify it for yourself. In the Court of your Lord,) you will be held accountable for your hearing, sight, and the faculty of reasoning." [Qu'ran 17:36]
On Internet there are many many lies,hoax,against Islam,we are trying very hard to clear all things,Then why you are sharing Un-Authorized contents with others.Lieing about Allah and Muhammad SAW will directly take you to hell.
so,please please please verify the content before sharing,Verses,Hadith,
Please help us to remove the fake things…and when ever you receive any thing claiming the MIRACLES OF ALLAH SWT OR MUHAMAMD SAW.
Put BIG Question mark on that miracle "?" becoz 90% images and videos spread on Internet is fake miracles…
If you can't verify it,then send it us,we will try our best to present the truth in front of you.
Now i think you must present the truth of dome flying to everyone,with whom you shared this lie… to erase the bad deeds which you gained without knowing the truth.
We don't need such kind of things to show the greatness and power of ALLAH SWT.
And Allah knows best!


JazakAllah khair for reading this ,
sharing is allowed with the proper source back link and without editing the Author name…
May Allah save us from all kind of Fitnah,
Ameen
Written by
King
slave of ALLAH SWT!
Let us know,What you think,What you were thinking before and what you think now…

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Friday, August 27, 2010

Architectural Wonder: Freedom Tower

The Freedom tower is the most symbolic of the new buildings planned for the World Trade Center site. “Incorporating the highest standards of design, safety, engineering and building technology, Freedom Tower will re-establish New York City as the epicentre of high-rise skyscraper design and serve as a symbol of the revitalisation of lower Manhattan. At 1,776ft, Freedom Tower will be over 400ft taller than the twin towers and over 100ft taller than Taipei 101 in Taiwan, currently the world’s tallest building.”
Freedom Tower
Freedom Tower
Freedom Tower
Freedom Tower

Architectural Wonder: taipei 101 tower

Taipei 101 is a 101 floor landmark located in Taipei, Taiwan. At 1670 ft. high, it has an aesthetically pleasing design and certainly brightens up the Taipei skyline. It is officially the world’s tallest building in the following categories – highest structurally, highest roof and highest occupied floor. (The Sears Tower in Chicago, USA is the tallest building in terms of overall height) The building was designed by C.Y.Lee & partners and constructed by KTRT Joint Venture from 1999-2004. It holds the honours of the highest building till the completion of the Burj Dubai tower as international architectural standards define a building as a structure that can be occupied.



Architectural Wonders: Chinese Central Television building

Without question, the most spectacular project is the China Central Television (CCTV) Headquarters in Beijing that is estimated for completion in 2008 and has been designed by Rem Koolhaas and OMA. "It does seem to make sense that the competition for a landmark building of media conglomate CCTV should be won by Koolhaas and His Office for Metopolitan Architecture," the author maintains. "It also makes sense that the competition jurors included architect Arata Isozaki and critic Charles Jencks, who are forever searching for 'new paradigms' in architecture. All the 'star signs' suggest that this building must define something 'new.' This complex is loated on a 10-hectare site in Beijing's newly defined CBD, a notion, like 'suburbia,' unheard of in China just a few years ago. It also among the first of 300 new towers to be built in this CBD. Of a total floor area of 553,000 square meters, 405,000 square meters comprise the CCTV headquarters tower and the remaining 115,000 square meters make up the Television Cultural centre (RVCC.). The CCRV tower includes administration, news, broadcasting, studios and program production - the entire process of TV making is designed as a sequence of interconected activities. The TVCC includes a hotel, a visitors center, and large public theater and exhibition spaces. The CCTV tower, which looks more futuristic thathe TVCC, does possess several new features previously unseen in conventional towers. This 230-meter tall tower is actually a twin-tower, connected on both the ground and at the top as a twisted loop. The irregular grid on the building surface represents, according to the architect, the forces travelling throughout the structure. This design idea would though, be impossibly legible for someone on the street, and it also raises the question of why a Chinese media conglomerate would want to express the structural forces of its building. The juxtapostiion of the fully glazed, hence transparent, building surface with an irregular grid would seem to symbolically reveal the hidden institutional power struggle in a large state-owned organization. It is safe to assume that the Chinese authorities do not interpret this symbolism as a general cry for independent journalism. otherwise the project would not have received the green light. The TVCC is marketed with ahotel tower na dmcultural complex podium; only the matching shapes with the CCTV tower suggest the belong to the same 'newness.' The 'newness' of this Koolhaaas building has triggered debates. The questions raised by Chinese architects range from the structural integrity of its irregular shape to the astronomical costs of the project, and to the apparent lack of decorum shown to Beijing's historical context. Given that almost all the most public projects in China are now won by celebrity foreign architects (which this book clearly shows) some Chinese architects believe that China has become an experimental laboratory for foreign architects, and an 'architectural colonization' is now taking place. All this aside, one more question should have been asked at the outset: when the 'newness' of the CCTV building becomes worn and dated, how will one reconcile such an 'historical style' with the intrinsic nature of the media, which is solely concerned with 'newness.'?"
Chinese Central Television building
Chinese Central Television building
Chinese Central Television building
Chinese Central Television building
Chinese Central Television building

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Border Collie: World Most Intelligent Dog

Border Collie: If a dog can actually look intelligent, this is it! Its keen, sharp, alert expression says it all. The Border Collie came from the borders between England and Scotland, where shepherds bred this dog over centuries.

Its unique features are its incredible ability to work out of sight of its master, to reason on its own, and its unique style of gathering the sheep with sweeping wide runs and weird ability to control them with an intense gaze called the “eye” while using stalking movements.

Its agility, strength, good looks, nice temperament and brain power make it the world’s top dog.


Border Collie: World Most Intelligent Dog with rabbit
Border Collie: World Most Intelligent Dog in stunt
Border Collie: World Most Intelligent Dog Is Sleeping
Border Collie: World Most Intelligent Dog

2nd Emma Maersk, the biggest container ship


2. Emma Maersk, the biggest container ship

The biggest container ship is owned by the container Ship company Maersk Group. The ship is named EMMA Maersk, and it’s the largest container ship that has been operated. This ship is capable of containing nearly 11.000 TEU’s (Twenty feet Equivalent Units), not less than 1.400 container more than the ability of other ships. That’s according to the stability limit of the vessel in accordance with company policy, with assuming the weight per container is 14 tons. But this ship is basically designed to contain 14.500 TEU’s. The ship was built by Odense Steel Shipyard Danish in 2006. There is an interesting fact when the ship was being built. There was a large fire broke out on accommodation deck and bridge deck which caused much damage. But everything could be repaired quickly and the vessels were completed on time. The ship is named EMMA Maersk, which is the name of Maersk Mc-Kinney wife, the founder of Maersk Group.




The World Biggest Ship Knock Nevis

Have you ever wondered which is the biggest ship on earth? The boats that tipically reach huge dimensions are Cruising ships, Battleships, Aircraft Carriers and Tankers.
The biggest of all (and with a big gap from the others) is the Supertanker " Knock Nevis" (formerly known as Seawise Giant, Happy Giant, and Jahre Viking) with its 458.45 m (1,504 ft) in length and 68.9 m (226 ft) in width. It has a deadweight of 564,763 tonnes and a summer displacement of 647,955 t when laden with nearly 650,000 m³ (4.1 million barrels) of petroleum. The ship has a draft of 24.6 m (81 feet) when fully loaded, which makes it impossible for the ship to navigate even the English Channel, let alone man-made canals at Suez and Panama. It has also a long and complicated history, It was built between 1979 and 1981, damaged during the Iran-Iraq war, and refloated in 1991, but is now used as an immobile offshore platform for the oil industry

EVEN in an age of superlatives, she continues as the ultimate superlative, a ship so huge that she would comfortably swallow up India’s largest ship, the 25,000-tonne aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, in her holds. On land, at 485.46 metres from tip to tip, she would dwarf the world’s tallest man-made land structure, the 424-metre Petronas tower of Malaysia. At sea she is fully 100 per cent bigger than the new breed of competing super tankers like the ill-fated Exxon Valdez.

TT Jahre Viking is a ship so huge that when fully laden, it cannot pass through the 32-mile-wide English channel that separates England from France Welcome aboard the TT Jahre Viking, a ship so huge that when fully laden she can not pass through the 32-mile-wide English channel that separates England from France, what to speak of the Suez and Panama canals. For, when laden, she sits 24.6 metres in the water, a depth great enough to deny her entry to most of the world’s major ports.

But, perhaps, proving the old adage that it’s lonely at the top, life hasn’t exactly been a bed of roses for this giant which defies classification (in shipping parlance she has been dubbed ULCC, an ultra large crude carrier). Built in 1979 for a Greek shipping magnate towards the fag-end of the super tanker boom that followed the oil embargo of 1973, her original owner went bankrupt even before she put out to sea. Following this her builders, the Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo offered her to a Hong Kong owner.

But before taking delivery, her new owner set an unusual condition. Already massive at 480,000 tonnes, he ordered that her length be increased several more metres to add another 87,000 tonnes to her load-carrying capacity to make her, at 564,763 tonnes, the largest ship to ever be built.

Two years later, in 1981, she was finally ready to be put to sea under the name the Sea Wise Giant.

As the timing goes, her launch was not without hassles. unfortuitous. Two major oil-producing states of Iran and Iraq were locked in a bitter war, and with the Arab world believed to be bankrolling if not actually backing Iraq, any ship carrying Iranian or Arab oil (in effect every tanker playing the Persian Gulf, the source of most of the world’s oil), was seen as a legitimate military target by the other country.

Against this backdrop it was too much to expect the Sea Wise Giant to sail without hinderance. Still, for the first few years of her life she plied her trade unmolested in the Gulf of Mexico, even doubling as a storage tanker, ill fate propelled her towards a more active duty in the Persian Gulf, and transformed her into a sitting duck for would-be takers.

As expected, disaster struck soon enough. While sailing the Hormuz Straits in 1986, she was targeted by Iraqi jets, who fired their full complement of Exocet missiles into her hull. The Sea Wise Giant never had a chance. Extensively damaged, she sank in the shallow waters off Iran’s Kharg Island.

Here she would sit out for the remainder of the war. And might have sat indefinitely had it not been for her uniqueness and what maritime assessors saw as her enduring value. The Sea Wise Giant, or what remained of her, was bought by a Norwegian company, re-floated, and towed to the Keppel shipyard in Singapore. After major conversions and repairs she was relaunched in 1991 as the TT Jahre Viking, quite simply the largest ship that set sail again.

But although she now regularly sails into the sunset, parting the seas before her as she goes, life is still not a bed of roses aboard the Jahre Viking. To quote KPS Kang, a Chandigarh youth, back after a stint as Chief Officer aboard her. "When you work as Chief Officer on the world’s biggest ship your responsibilities are bigger in every sense of the word". In his case it meant looking after cargo, discharge and maintenance of 46 tanks and 31,541 square metres of deck.

At sea, specially when negotiating rocky straits and shallow waters, the need for constant depth current monitoring is that much greater. And at port, or what substitutes as port, single-buoy moorings in the open sea or ship-to-ship transfer of cargo entails a lot of risk. The risk of accidents or spillage is much higher than with ships working out of safe harbours.

In tacit recognition of this and her sheer size, the Jahre Viking has been designated in the class of ‘worst-case scenarios’ by the US Coast Guard, prompting strict international monitoring and compensatory vigilance on the part of her crew and a gobye to the occasional perk like a Singapore sling to a setting tropical sun. (Following the Exxon Valdez disaster off the coast of Alaska blamed on its drunk captain, most tankers adopted a no-alcohol policy).

Surprisingly, for a ship her size, the Jahre Viking packs in a rather small crew of 40, about the same number as aboard two Air India Jumbos. And all of these are of non-Norwegian origin. In fact, barring the occasional Russian junior officer, all officers, including her captain, are Indians. The crew is almost entirely Filipino.The World Biggest Ship Knock Nevis
The World Biggest Ship Knock Nevis

Saturday, August 21, 2010

EARTH BLACKOUT IN 2013


So, do we really need to worry about a huge solar storm burning out the electrical systems of half the world in 2013? Masochists that we are here at the Telegraph, we love to shoot down our own stories, and I was cracking my knuckles for this one. It’s got all the ingredients – white-coated authority, grave warnings of impending doom, exciting sciencey nuclear nemesis in space. NASA! Solar flares! Planes falling out of the sky! Etc.

But I read the piece, and spoke to the reporter, and – while always remembering that I am no more an astrophysicist than I am a black belt in tae kwon do – it sounded pretty solid. Dr Richard Fisher, the director of Nasa’s Heliophysics division, is very clear in the quotes, and our reporter, Andrew Hough, was very careful to check his facts with Dr Fisher before publishing. It sounds like a lot of serious people think that this is a real danger.

Apparently the concern is in 2013, the sun will reach a stage of its cycle when these large events are more likely. This might strike you as a bit strange, as you’ve probably heard (as have I) that the sun has been especially active for the last half-century or so and is expected to die down in the next couple of years – I spoke to Marcus Chown, the physicist and author of We Need to Talk about Kelvin, who said “Solar activity has been abnormally high for the past 50 years, but the extremely feeble start to the latest 11-year cycle suggests this activity is coming to an end and things are going to be quiet on the Sun for quite a few years.” Dr Ruth Bamford, a plasma physicist at the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, agrees: “The sun has been particularly quiet for the last few years in a protracted solar minimum. It has just woken up, as it were, and started its usual 11-year cycle a bit later than most.”

So what’s going on? Well, something similar has happened before. In 1859 a huge solar storm burned out telegraph wires across Europe and the United States. Dr Stuart Clark has written a book, The Sun Kings, about when that happened. He says that the “Carrington flare”, as it was known, “smothered two-thirds of the Earth’s skies in a blood-red aurora a night later, and crippled all of global navigation and global communication, such as it was at that time. Compasses span uselessly and the telegraph network went down as phantom electricity surged through the wire.”

The sun had indeed been running at a record high for the latter half of the 20th century, and has now died down to its lowest level for a century. But Dr Clark warns that “average levels of solar activity has fallen does not mean that the Sun is immune from large flares or even giant ones. Low average levels of activity may even promote the giant flares.

“Perhaps like earthquakes, when there are constant flares/tremors the energy is dissipated evenly over long periods of time. But in periods of quiet, that energy can build up and then suddenly be released in a giant event. This remains speculation, however.”

2013 is when the next peak in the sun’s cycle of activity is expected, and while we cannot predict individual flares, Dr Clark says that the largest flares are often shortly after the peak.

Of course, if a proper “Carrington event” happens again, it has the potential to be far more problematic now than in 1859 when electric communication was barely in its infancy. Dr Clark says “There is absolutely no reason to believe that we are heading for solar armageddon in 2013, but sooner or later we should expect there to be another Carrington event and that is what these scientists [at NASA] are trying to prevent. Legislation in the US has just passed Congress to help harden the grid against solar flares.”

So – it’s a real thing, and we should be concerned. But preventive measures can be taken – satellites can be sent offline during big flares, power grids and communication networks can be shielded against electromagnetic radiation and so on. As Dr Bamford says: “The extreme events like the 1859 Carrington Event are 1-in-100-year probabilities, about the same probability as a storm of the level of Katrina hitting New Orleans – and New Orleans did not build their defences to withstand the extreme-but-unlikely magnitude. 100 years isn’t that long.

“But the end of the world it is not. Maybe as disruptive as an ash cloud, but not as protracted I’m sure.” She gives examples of precautions, like a GPS backup system called eLoran, or active mini-magnetosphere shielding for astronauts and satellites that her team have designed.

Of course, if those precautions are taken, and actually work, and no damage is done, then everyone will cry that it was all a big fuss over nothing, like they always do. So the scientists can’t win, really. But that’s just how it is.


2013 solar storm picture
2013 solar storm picture
2013 solar storm picture
2013 solar storm picture