Message from @Dark Magician
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what?!
they are called CME
they happen all the time
...sunspots?
I was under the assumption that the sun has a relatively stable fusion rate
it does
had the one in 2017 hit earth rather than been in the opposite direction, we'd be in the stone age
no
these are relatively frequent solar events; we are in a shooting gallery after all
```The largest recorded geomagnetic perturbation, resulting presumably from a CME hitting the Earth's magnetosphere, was the solar storm of 1859 (the Carrington Event), which took down parts of the recently created US telegraph network, starting fires and shocking some telegraph operators.```
the odds are just so low that one will happen to be directed at earth
it already did
I mean it wouldn't be the stone age it'd be like 17th century Europe
largest RECORDED
and we'd quickly rebuild
gee. how long have they been recording such things relative to the life of the SUN?
also
not only are we a needle to be shot at from by miles away
we also have a magnetic field
there'd be bread lines and a year or so without electricity
massive electronic disruption is the worst case scenario
you cannot possibly thing that even the entirety of human history is anything but an insignifigant blimp when compared to the life-cycle of the sun
It’d be a big fucking deal but not apocalypse level bad
*blip
Well other then the looting
I don't see how it would be any different from ww2
as if our data is anything more than a few hundred years old at best
*blimps* on the other hand are huge
😄
and the sun isn't 4billion yrs old
in terms of bread lines and lack of electricity
while we build our countries again
MA bringing universe time cycle...And I just evolved to Red dwarf
big difference is number of people
well ofc
in 1914, 4 yrs prior to wwI, there were only 2 billion
the right wing death squads will start up
about 3 billion during wwii
probably a good thing