Stunning USA Lights At Night Video Shows Vulnerability
February 12, 2012, Submitted by: Ken Tweet
As the International Space Station zooms across the planet at 17,227 miles per hour at an altitude of 200 miles, it captures amazing images of our planet from a perspective rarely comprehended by most people living on the surface.
The imagery shown in the video below was stitched together from photos taken at one-second intervals as the space station on an extraordinary clear night traveled northeast from the Gulf of Mexico across the eastern United States during the end of January, 2012.
The geographical area seen throughout the 60-second video covers land from just west of the Mississippi river all the way across to the east coast, which populates approximately 200 Million People!
It is interesting to see the display of electricity and lines of distribution from city to city, the lifeblood which keeps the system functioning. Can you imagine all of this flickering off if a ‘Carrington-event’ solar eruption were to happen, affecting hundreds of millions of people?
The glow and sheets of the aurora borealis can be clearly seen to the north, as the earth battles with solar radiation from the sun, the very same phenomenon which would explode into brilliance and encompass much of the earth should a major solar event occur.
As you watch the video, marvel at what you are seeing, but also think about the dependance and reliance that we all have on our electrical grid.
Are you prepared?
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From the “experts” at the National Geographic Society we don’t have to worry about another Carrington event until the 23rd. century of beyond. Yet before the 1850′s there was no way of telling how often EMP effects hit the planet like the Carrington event, nothing electronic. My advice is NOT to listen to “ANYTHING” that the National Geographic “experts” say as they know nothing about what they are talking about, and be prepared. The sun is something that is not as predictable as people think it is. Look at the size of the sun in comparison to the planet, it is like looking at a BB or smaller next to a basketball. Imagine all that was lighted going dark, just imagine the shear panic. People freak out in the dark, totally.
This is what this site and other survival sites are about, preparing for the unforeseen and even the unexpected. Another sun burst EMP WILL HAPPEN AGAIN, it just will. The time frame is what is undetermined. I severely question anyone, especially NG, in their common sense approach about the sun. There was a huge event just a few years ago that IF it had been Earth directed could have been a Carrington event level. Of course others want to down play the threat because after all, “if we don’t think about it, then it won’t happen”. Oh, brother! Or if we tell everyone what they want to hear our ratings will not fall, even if that what we say is a fallacy and makes us look like imbeciles, sometimes looking stupid and inept sells TV air time better.
Sorry again about my feelings over the degrading ways others make preppers look bad, but it just irritates me like a mosquito buzzing around at night. I just cannot stand how TV has fallen into satisify the viewer and lie about the facts of potential disasters so as not to scare away the ratings. You know what Ken, I wish there was a survival and preparedness type of programs on TV that painted the true risks of future calamities. Not of course overly alarming, but just the hard core truth and people could make up their own minds what to do and prepare for.
Might be interesting to post pictures of North Korea or Iran at night.
I was looking at the map I have of the world at night and North Korea looks like what it would look like at about 1920, SAD! Iran has a fair degree of light. It is interesting to see areas like Greenland and the Arctic, even poor areas of Africa that are pitch black. One good thing about dark areas is you can do some serious star gazing.