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Check it out! Technology survived a Carrington Event (youtu.be)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I know nothing about how any of this works, and so what I am gonna say may be complete nonsense, but If the current one was weaker and the last powerful one was in the late 19th century, then this would hopefully means another "real" corrignton event will at least need more than a century and half to occur.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

The current model predicts that the peak activity of this solar cycle will be next year. Theoretically, we haven't seen the highest activity yet.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Unfortunately for us, the sun isn't an egg timer, and it's pretty much completely impossible to determine exactly when and how strong the next solar flare is until it's hurtling through space and potentially in our direction (beyond general trends like solar cycles and such). Would be great if it worked like that though.