Kind of like your hypothetical happyville, Cyre2067.. All.
My thoughts were economic, the way the (world) economy is going, cashing in on an "accident" and gaining insurance money to boot, 'going' along with the other ideas.
Also thinking about HAARP and also, some time back, years is likely, I recall something about how other planets within the solar system are acting funny on their poles (magnetism related?). No knowledge of electro, spacial megnetism ("imagining" it as a kind of fluidity) in reference to the sun on the solar system but understand, from recent articles on the signs page, that the sun certainly has an affect. "Ropes" is a word in the title of the article I'm referencing - at least pretty sure. Wish I could surf up a link but I broke the site, or so it implies :)
Edit: There is also data in reference to the sun being on a cooling. Would this reduce magnetic flow in the solar system, kind of causing the terminal shock and heliosphere to be reduced _http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Our-Solar-System-is-Squashed-2.jpg? Apologies for the unedumicated preponderances but I've got a lot of wonder in such a topic.
Edit 2.0
Gonna Take a moment and joke on myself.
Taking this into some folly I have this:
BLAME IT ON THE wave
Milli Vanilli
Blame it on the wave
Blame it on the stars
Whatever you do don't put the blame on you
Blame it on the wave yeah yeah
You can blame it on the wave
Get
Ooh, ooh (ooh)
I can't, I can't. I can't, can't stand the wave
I can't, I can't. I can't, can't stand the wave
Yeah, yeah
Should've told her you were sorry (sorry) huh
Could have said you were wrong
But no you couldn't do that. No, no
You had to prove you were strong ooh
If you hadn't been so blinded (blinded)
She might still be there with you
You want her back again
But she just don't feel the same
Gotta blame it on something
blame it on the wave
Thought it made sense in terms of my forgetful and narcissistic traits. Apologies for seemingly getting off course but, off in ponderanceville, again. Could the sun actually cause a kind of wave, as in when it crosses the meridian of the plane of the galaxy? Hopefully I didn't cause anyone to lose their train of thought or take away from the discussion. As I'm(agining) waking up, it seems there are so many potentials and possibilities in learning to understand this world we share. Not yet fixated on any one possibility but so much seems to tie together. Hope I don't appear to be stuck in some imaginative drivel as well as pray no one will take this more than with a grain of salt. Just unedumicated speculcation that gets me trying to grasp the situation in which I (still imagining) find myself. Salutes!