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102 sats \ 4 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 3 Jul 2022 \ on: Daily discussion thread
I've been reading about solar flares a lot the past week, pretty scary stuff.
Do you have a tldr of the consequences of a big one? I’ve assumed things go offline but for how long and how hard is it to get them back?
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The tl;dr is much worse than people imagine. The sun goes through cycles of higher and lower activity and we are approaching multiple cyclical peaks (on more than one time scale).
The Carrington Event brought down telegraph wires, melted circuits, etc, ... A large enough mass coronal ejection would create darkness in the sky as matter expelled outward blocked the sun's light... and then cataclysmic damage on earth including things striking us... Not only would some parts of the grid literall get fried/melted but to us it would seem like Armageddon.
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There's also been a lot of these stories about near misses, and possibly expected contact with a solar storm that was expected for June 28/29...
Tons of these stories lately
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We also have been getting more reported "near misses"... what with multiple observatories getting shuttered in last 5 years or so, it's very spooky. Gives me vibes of that movie, "Don't Look Up"
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