• actually@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Each year, is about a 1/2 of 1 percent the sun will give out a flare so big, it will not only destroy all power distribution to the half of the earth exposed, and destroy the internet there, but cut off food distribution, starving most of the population in any county . Last time it happened was in the 1800s but no stuff to destroy then. And food was local.

    It would be years before things were normal . Our current setup is literally doomed to failure for a random half of the earth

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      There was a bit of tech around at the time - telegraph. The flare sparked fires in telegraph offices and shocked some operators. As in electric shock, not a big fright, though no doubt also that. Some operators disconnected their batteries and were able to communicate by the auroral current alone.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

      The descriptions of the aurora are wild.

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          Are you simply dying to be offended on someone else’s behalf darling? Sweety?

          Pour yourself a large G&T, poppet, there’s a dear

          • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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            I’ll never turn down G&T, but more importantly, what did Belgium ever do to you? I’m just curious…

            If you’ve got a spinning wheel of ‘who’s gonna get it today’ and Belgium came up, that’s fine, too