Another solar event about 200 years earlier was nearly twice as intense. And for the less intense ones (that would still fry our infrastructure) we're basically dependent on some monk somewhere writing down how weird it is that he can read by aurora lighthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/774%E2%80%93775_carbon-14_spike …
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Everyone loves the Carrington Event, the well-documented solar storm in 1859 that has been the gold standard for "if this happened today, we'd be toast". But the 774 event was at least 10 times as strong. The Sun does not play.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event …
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The good news is these massive solar storms happen all the time, it's just rare to get one that hits Earth square-on. So they're not hard to study. The bad news is these massive solar storms happen all the time.
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Naturally the blockchain will survive any solar storm, but only if it's oriented east to west, to avoid the worst of the induced currents.
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The other good news is that even an 1859-scale solar storm would bring humanity down to near-zero carbon emissions. That is the real power of clean, renewable solar energy.
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Seems bad. Then again, on the other hand no more bitcoin or Facebook. Who can say if this is really a bad thing?
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The British drama Cobra season one was about this and the ensuing chaos but ultimately the plot was resolved with a back up generator being delivered from Germany which seemed like a cop out.
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