Venkatesh Rao@vgrCan we just worry about one x-risk at a time please?Quote TweetSabine Hossenfelder@skdh·Sep 2, 2017Disaster waiting to happen: What Would Happen if a Massive Solar Storm Hit the Earth? http://gizmodo.com/what-would-happen-if-a-massive-solar-storm-hit-the-eart-1724650105?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Gizmodo_twitter… via @gizmodo4:44 AM · Sep 2, 20174 Likes
Sabine Hossenfelder@skdh·Sep 2, 2017Replying to @vgrDid I mention it's only a matter of time until another Icelandic volcano eruption spits ashes over Europe?12
A. L. V.@theartlav·Sep 2, 2017Replying to @vgrMeh, only US and Canada will be affected, quasi-DC geocurrents are only a problem for cheap ground return grids, like they got there.
A. L. V.@theartlav·Sep 2, 2017Replying to @vgrIn practice, it can be turned into a non-event just by shutting down power for a day. If not, many power transformers will explode.
A. L. V.@theartlav·Sep 2, 2017Replying to @vgrThese take months to make with infrastructure intact and there are no spares, so an entire sunlit hemisphere would be screwed.
A. L. V.@theartlav·Sep 2, 2017Replying to @vgrTL;DR: We will see it coming in time to avoid damage, but politicians are too stupid to understand the mandatority of it, so we will suffer.