I guess you already knew since your phone is working.

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    7 months ago

    I had to look it up, the Carrington Event was a solar flare that impacted the entire globe and caused telegraph stations to set on fire in the 1800s. It’s the biggest magnetic storm in recorded history, and would lead to global devastation if another one that size impacted Earth due to our reliance on electronics

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      if you watched the video, your last point seems to be demonstrably untrue, as what hit us this week, the video author is saying, was the same size and category 5 solar emission that The Carrington Event was, and we didn’t experience any disruption to our satelites, or electrical grid at all, probably because we were prepared for it, which is as interesting as it gets

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        Just like all storms, the geomagnetic storm scale is imperfect. It maxes out at G5, so it’s possible for a substantially worse storm to be in the same category as what we saw last weekend.

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        The 2003 event produced the biggest-ever solar flare ever measured, an X45. That year, several BIG transformers exploded in South Africa. This event’s biggest so is 8.7. A lot depends on where it’s aimed at … but anyway , no, we are not prepared.