The Internet shuts down..now what do you guys do?

Create my own network and sell it to people. LOL.

I don't see this happening, and if it does, it is going to come back rather quickly. If not, I still have a lawn care company on auto pilot.

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Could you imagine though? That would REALLY change things entirely, for a LOT of people. Mark Zuckerberg would be wishing he sold facebook years ago.

Even if this occurs, since this is something that has been anticipated well in advance, I doubt that the momentary interruption would be anything to worry about.

Just 11-12 years ago, there were the paranoid and alarmist people who claimed that Y2K would shut down all the offices and governments all over the world, and be potentially catastrophic, but of course we know how that turned out - the transition was smooth and pretty much painless, unlike what they were trying to make you believe.

Any solar storm powerful enough to destroy the Internet completely will do much more than just destroy the Internet. It will destroy our way of life as we know it. Cars won't operate, electric grids will be down. In essence, we'd be reduced to living in the 18th century so I would think that I and everyone else would have much bigger worries than the fact that the Internet is down.

I am just fed up of such rumors and don't give them any attention. We heard about Y2K but what happened. I have my one philosophy which is inspired by kung fu panda. Tomorrow is a mystery so why should I bother about it. Today is a gift thats why it is known as present so we should enjoy it all full.

I'm going to reinvent the wheel & put my name on the new patent.

I called dibs!

The Intenet shutting down!!!! Oh No! That means I'll have to talk to the Mrs!!

I guess I'll be out looting wal-mart with everyone else.

Isn't that what we are supposed to do when tragedy strikes?

Wow, no internet, no cell phone, NO BANK, NO ACCOUNTS, NO DEBT only me and my wife fishing and farming for a living .............can't wait

When did you say this is going to happen?

It's a spammer, he's doing it in every post. I've already reported it but the more reports and the faster the guy is banned.

Take a look at my profile picture. Except the Disney Pirate hat, that's authentic period garb (S.C.A. all the way!). I'm not afraid to go Medieval. Actually, I probably wouldn't go full Medieval. Never go Full Medieval. You never come back from Full Medieval. But Money Python with a touch of Mad Max... I could do that.

The internet shutting down?

It's simply not going to happen. It'd effect every type of business.

When the next one hits...it will fry anything with a circuit board in it. That is what happens when a huge EMP pulse washes over an area, regardless of whether that area is the whole of earth.

The problem is, we have only been operating on high tech systems for a very small amount of time, so things that wouldn't have affected us before, will now.

It should be remembered that while a solar flare would wipe out the internet (computers/servers), the larger problem would be the loss of the control systems in manufacturing facilities. By losing those, you take away the ability to rebuild quickly.

On the other hand, most government facilities have their important information stored behind lead shields, and have done since the cold war.

You should also remember that the next solar storm may not hit for 1000 years, so not an immediate concern. Of course, it could hit tomorrow but it's unlikely.

If this happens while I am alive, I would have a printing press set up within a few days. Knowing that in a suddenly information-deprived world, a writer with a printing press will have it all his own way.

Cheers,
Colin Palfrey

Umm marketing will still be the same. Salesmanship always comes handy. I'll create my own product and tout it. If we can do it online...Why not replicate the same tactics of basic entrepreneurship offline. I'm sure there ll be a demand for something or the other. Just find the demand and feed it.

That is how boardwalk pitchmen did it.

Cheers,
kunal

I've thought about it some more.

I'd write a book "The Internet Has Fallen...Your Business Can Still Flourish".
Set up my own litho press and start printing it. Next I would get it in the shops and start advertising through magazines.

Cheers,
Colin Palfrey

Don't want to think what could happened if the internet would go down for even 1 hours in the hole world. This would be like the end of the world.

There is no way the internet will shut-down, unless it is political.

We've already had experience with these worst case scenarios - and the infotainment
media just love to scare the hell out of everybody partly because they're elitists and smugly believe they will be immune, most to increase ratings and ad revenues. It wasn't pretty, but we survived.

Theoretically, and global EMT pulse would overload the electrical grid and literally fry electronic devices. It would take decades to replace all the transformers at substations so we could turn on the lights again - decades because all of them would blow and require replacement. The strategic emergency is to channel what few spare transformers we have to where they are needed to build more.

Our stocks of batteries won't last long when they are the only source for radio and flashlights, etc. So how will people react they there are no lights at home or the gas station (been there, done that, remember?), when there is no refrigeration anywhere and everyone is force to go without meat and dairy products and the fruits and vegetables are strictly seasonal and mostly local?

I don't put that much stock in my fellow human beings to be rational, and all the evidence seems to confirm that cynicism.

Fortunately, the chance of it happening are so infinitesimally small it approaches zero. Most stars large enough to produce a super-nova and gamma-ray burst are simply too far away. Even better, it would have to be tremendously large, and close enough, and the poles perfectly aligned for their pulse to focus directly at us. The universe is a really big place, and the requirement for all those conditions to affect us, so I'm not worried about it at all.

Anyone here remember the infamous Morris worm Novermber 2, 1988? That was the last time the Internet went almost completely dark, and that was primarily because admins pulled the plug. This was something completely new, completely outside anything they knew or thought.

The Big Players don't want this happened. Just let they take care the rest.

I personally don't care much about it, I don't have much to lose, for me personally and much like me would be score. But, imagine people with millions dollars, billions even. Stuck in banks with no way to retrieve it. Crime would go incredibly high. America would be cut off in it's Continent with no way to communicate with it's troupe anywhere, agents of CIA would be stuck with his operation braking countries apart etc. Only good stuff.

First of all, the gurus won't allow a solar storm like that. They will divert it to another planet (they will outsource the work on oDesk of course).

Second, that just means you need to make enough money before 2013 so even if it does happen, you can live happily ever after.

I got my computer protected by an uninterruptable power supply...so if one does hit, that is one thing I can guarantee will survive.

If the internet does shut down, it's going to be quite interesting. Short answer: if the internet goes down, the only thing you will be able to do is rub two sticks together to make a fire.

Short list of what you won't have:

• power
• water
• heat
• phone
• cable tv
• 911
• any access to bank accounts

Now, will this scenario happen due to a solar flare? Probably not, mostly because all critical infrastructure is (at least it had better be) protected via some kind of surge supression....so the worst that will happen is a boatload of stuff will kick off line and need to be reset...so you might experience an extended outage of several hours while that happens.

So, the best thing to do is go take a walk to pass the time until everything gets restored. Or if you're asleep...keep on sleeping.

Amazing how many people think "they wouldn't let it happen". This is basic economics, the time and cost of preparing for such an event would be enormous. Who do you think's going to pay for it? Things like this are weighed up between cost and probability.

Does anyone really think that what's just happened in Japan was never considered a possibilty. When a disaster has a low probability, things change only after disaster strikes. Unless it becomes iminent, it's not likely we will ever be prepared for a solar event like this. The probability is very low but the possibility is still there.

that will be something very dangerously for complete World ! I hope that we'll all have luck. But ,after this in Japan, I can't be so sure what will be with Earth... look just Yellowstone .... if this explodes will be end of everything !

So, we must not be to much pessimistic !!