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do yall ever think about how the sun could just launch a massive cme that would knock out pretty much all electricity? like the best we can hope for is that we catch it quick enough to turn the grid off so it doesn’t get fried
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Anonymous 20h

That’s why I have a single solar power panel laying in my yard. If that happens it’s going to overcharge my sphere and then I’m going to touch it

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Anonymous 21h

This and the thought of the poles of the Earth’s magnetic field flipping and wiping all our electronics are two of the things that really keep me up at night. I think I’d almost rather have the nuclear bomb in my sleep option than living through whatever comes after humanity plunges into a post-electricity world, which I have to imagine would actually be way worse than pre-electricity

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Anonymous 20h

We do have solar weather monitoring satellites that would give us a decent amount of warning time before a Carrington-level event reaches Earth. There would totally still be a lot of damage, but we’d probably have enough time to protect critical systems

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Anonymous 17h

Sounds like an excuse to try to delete evidence of crimes that will be in vein cuz there are several back ups in EMF hardened facilities.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 21h

i’m a bit less worried about the pole flip as that would likely take a good chunk of time. but yeah we are woefully unprepared for these types of events

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Anonymous replying to -> united_states_space_force 20h

yeah i think noaa’s solar 1 satellite just went fully operational as of june which does make me feel a bit better. more worried that warnings wouldn’t be taken seriously as it wouldn’t be the first time people ignored warnings from noaa

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