2023-09-03 at 9:24 PM UTC
This is sensational crap. It’s normal for the sun to do shit like this as we approach solar maximum, because its magnetic poles are getting ready to switch. It happens every 11 years.
What isn’t sensational is that whenever this happens there’s a small chance that a coronal mass ejection will be directed at earth and cause a geomagnetic storm that could devastate modern infrastructure.
There are things we can do to mitigate the effects like spinning down power generation for a few hours when we know it’s coming, but it will still at a minimum cause trillions of dollars in damage, destroy many of the satellites we rely on for communications and geolocation services, and probably brick a lot of our electrical devices like phones, cars, the internet, etc.
The odds of this happening are about .7% per year, and it’s been about 160 years since the last one so do the math on that. It probably won’t reset modern society like you see in the movies but it will definitely get pretty bad for a few years. So yeah that’s coming
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2023-09-04 at 3:10 AM UTC
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