Good news and bad news for us simmers and pilots

[John_Cillis 2,406]

The bad news...  Fried motherboards, something distracting us from final approach, gps disturbances, fried above ground utilities, zapped microwave ovens, etc.. etc.. etc.....

The good news.  If we are still around by then we will have lived long and prospered....

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/12/world/galactic-collision-milky-way/index.html

[Paraffin 2,197]

Galaxy merge is bad, but this could happen and cause chaos sooner (nature.com). 

Earth’s magnetic field is acting up and geologists don’t know why

Looks like we might be getting close to a polarity flip, which happens every once in a while, like 2,000 years ago for the last one. The period (hundreds of years) when it's flipping can be very low magnetism in the Earth's field, so get ready for more hard radiation on the ground without the protection. 

[Peter Webber 339]

Thanks for this thread! You saved me a few bucks. I'll hold back on my purchase of the 2080ti until after the galaxy merge!

Edited January 13, 2019 by Peter Webber

[anden145 2,284]

Wow. 8 billion years?! 😮

I have serious doubts, that Mankind (the way we're behaving towards our planet and each other) will exist in one million years (or maybe even a thousand)...

Quote

“I know not with what weapons World War III be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

-- Albert Einstein

 

Edited January 13, 2019 by Anders Bermann

[G-RFRY 1,708]

KORD will be out before that maybe ! 

[Bob Scott 7,715]

!yaw siht sgniht gnidaer eb ll'ew ,pilf eht retfA

,sdrageR

 

[anden145 2,284]

12 minutes ago, w6kd said:

!yaw siht sgniht gnidaer eb ll'ew ,pilf eht retfA

,sdrageR

 

LOL! 😄

 

[fs4fun 366]

47 minutes ago, Anders Bermann said:

LOL! 😄

 

Or after the flip: !LOL

[anden145 2,284]

4 hours ago, rjfry said:

KORD will be out before that maybe ! 

Which one? (aren't there three different versions, by three different developers in the works?)

Edited January 13, 2019 by Anders Bermann

[Rocky_53 1,566]

Hee hee, we''ll have knackered everything a loooong time before then. In fact, I suspect within the next 500 years the human race will be gone!

[stans 702]

6 hours ago, w6kd said:

!yaw siht sgniht gnidaer eb ll'ew ,pilf eht retfA

,sdrageR

 

LOL!!!!! (which, like ABBA, will still be read the same way after the flip)

[gpf3m 41]