Those bad old solar winds can blow out our electric lights! Oh, my!

CBS News reported today that solar storms may knock out our power grids, satellites, cell phone signals, and that we should take note and be prepared. NASA says the sun is going through a period of increased solar activity, creating intense sun storms, that could take down our technology. Take down? Put it out of commission. Scientists are working on a way to protect our electronic devices. See video.

This is kind of scary and kind of funny. Can you imagine what we would do without our electronics? No computers. No TV. No ATM machines. No movies. No recorded music. How could any of us possibly manage? What would we do for entertainment? The scientist in the video speculates, if we don't properly protect our electronic devices from the electromagnetic surges produced by powerful solar flares, we could be set back one hundred years. 100 years! Imagine, we would have to learn how to clean up behind horses.