The buried lede here is we need to think harder about preparing for another solar event like happened in 993 that left its mark in the tree rings, because such events are not all that rare and the next one will destroy GPS and much of the power grid.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/science/vikings-newfoundland-age.html …
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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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I suggest a preemptive strike against the sun. If we don’t have a SPACE FORCE for nuking the sun before it destroys everything, I don’t know why we have it.
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I concur. Give the Sun a taste of the nuclear lash so it knows to stay in harness.
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