The Carrington Event in 1859 is a scary geomagnetic storm that would probably take out the GPS system and large parts of the power grid if it happened today. But evidence is mounting that it's small on the scale of potential solar flares to worry abouthttps://knowablemagazine.org/article/physical-world/2021/understanding-just-how-big-solar-flares-can-get?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=originals& …
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Meanwhile, though, we've invented a light bulb that depends on someone maintaining a free javascript library somewhere in perpetuity in order to stay lit.
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Becoming completely dependent on the internet over the course of 20 years ensures that anything that happens on timescales of 21 years or greater will destroy civilization. Fortunately, that same internet has also shown us why that's a good thing.
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safeguarding the grid would cost something like $10-$30B, but right now if we were hit by this it would cause months of blackouts at the minimum
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Or the highly predictable ones, like the lahar zone of an active volcano which "contains numerous dependent-population facilities (for example, schools and child day-care centers)" https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mount-rainier/lahars-and-debris-flows-mount-rainier … https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2009/5211/
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