Message from @ManAnimal

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2020-03-14 21:59:24 UTC  

On January 20th, 2005, a giant sunspot named "NOAA 720" exploded. The blast sparked an X-class solar flare, the most powerful kind, and hurled a billion-ton cloud of electrified gas (a "coronal mass ejection") into space.

2020-03-14 21:59:24 UTC  

You were talking about the 2006 flare

2020-03-14 21:59:27 UTC  

I'm assuming

2020-03-14 21:59:38 UTC  

and the flares are forcasted to get stronger towards solar max in the coming decade

2020-03-14 22:00:07 UTC  

it hit

2020-03-14 22:00:11 UTC  

and was literally harmless

2020-03-14 22:00:14 UTC  

by nasa's own admission

2020-03-14 22:00:14 UTC  

Loo

2020-03-14 22:00:17 UTC  

nothing we can do can 'sheild the earth' from a CME of significant strength

2020-03-14 22:00:26 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/678530619621507073/688506853591744558/scale_1200.png

2020-03-14 22:00:32 UTC  

Very thing military is emp shielded for example and a lot of metal casing might actually leave like half and half equipment working anyway

2020-03-14 22:00:37 UTC  

@Lucienne d'Anwyl READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE YOU RETARD

2020-03-14 22:00:39 UTC  

Nothing matters y'all are gay anyways.

2020-03-14 22:00:43 UTC  

wouldn't work

2020-03-14 22:00:47 UTC  

IT'S FROM NASA

2020-03-14 22:00:47 UTC  

Real men have sex with little women

2020-03-14 22:00:53 UTC  

you need to discharge that energy somehow

2020-03-14 22:01:01 UTC  

NASA is a joke

2020-03-14 22:01:08 UTC  

jAXA is the real deal.

2020-03-14 22:01:16 UTC  

you would turn into a lightening rod WAY before a flare arrived

2020-03-14 22:01:34 UTC  

I need to do some lightening

2020-03-14 22:01:38 UTC  

"could cause widespread power blackouts, disabling everything that plugs into a wall socket."

2020-03-14 22:01:41 UTC  

so again

2020-03-14 22:01:42 UTC  

grid damage

2020-03-14 22:01:43 UTC  

My gf says she's worried I'll crush her

2020-03-14 22:01:49 UTC  

but individual people wouldve been unaffected

2020-03-14 22:01:58 UTC  

a flare is like a tide... it's not just for an instant, it can last as long as the North lights; so what, 1hr?

2020-03-14 22:02:09 UTC  

and they said that one was espcially strong

2020-03-14 22:02:17 UTC  

when the first part of the flare hit, your shield would be toast

2020-03-14 22:02:21 UTC  

NIGSA

2020-03-14 22:02:28 UTC  

yeah sending the civilized world into the dark ages would definitely leave individuals "unaffected"

2020-03-14 22:02:34 UTC  

>dark ages

2020-03-14 22:02:35 UTC  

It’d affect anything hit but metal casing would deflect some of it act as shielding idk about things being plugged into the wall why would they get hurt

2020-03-14 22:02:37 UTC  

jesus lol

2020-03-14 22:02:44 UTC  

we didnt have much electricity in the 1800s

2020-03-14 22:02:48 UTC  

and it ws hardly the "dark ages"

2020-03-14 22:02:54 UTC  

? anything without copper shielding would be fried

2020-03-14 22:02:56 UTC  

especially strong during that solar season with earth's shield at full

2020-03-14 22:02:57 UTC  

@Lucienne d'Anwyl It would cause cancer in mass but wouldn't outright kill people

2020-03-14 22:02:59 UTC  

Probably