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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on March 18, 2023, 09:48:59 am

Title: Huge ‘doomsday’ blast from sun this week could have killed Earth’s internet
Post by: rangerrebew on March 18, 2023, 09:48:59 am

Huge ‘doomsday’ blast from sun this week could have killed Earth’s internet
Story by Talker News • Yesterday 9:25 AM

By Dean Murray via SWNS
 
A huge "doomsday" blast from the Sun this week could have knocked out Earth's internet.

A massive eruption of solar material, known as a coronal mass ejection or CME, was detected on Monday, March 13, at 3:36 a.m. UK time.

The potentially "catastrophic" CME has been compared to the Carrington Event, the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, peaking from September 1 to 2, 1859.

That event knocked out the 'internet' of the time, with telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failing.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/huge-doomsday-blast-from-sun-this-week-could-have-killed-earth-s-internet/ar-AA18KGac?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=6874c759ff9045748c24730d5f32218a&ei=15

Title: Re: Huge ‘doomsday’ blast from sun this week could have killed Earth’s internet
Post by: Free Vulcan on March 18, 2023, 01:15:54 pm

I hear people talking about another Carrington level event, or the Yellowstone caldera blowing off, or a 9.0 or greater New Madrid earthquake, and it's not something that bothers me or makes me lose sleep.

If they happen it's game over, we will pretty much be starting over again like the pioneer days on the frontier. There are some things you can't prepare for.