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WestMichRad

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2. Carrington event

Reply to DetroitLegalBeagle (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 25, 2023, 08:54 PM

Jun 2023

Had to look that up. A fascinating bit of science history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

You’re right, a direct hit from a coronal mass ejection (CME) could damage a power grid severely. Timed right (or, make that: very wrong), it could be crippling.

We’ve been lucky that CMEs in the last hundred years have not been direct hits on Earth.

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Another Carrington Event would probably kill millions DetroitLegalBeagle Jun 2023 #1

Carrington event WestMichRad Jun 2023 #2

Ah, the catastrophic event that occurs every eleven years or so. Grokenstein Jun 2023 #3

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In Cuba? WhiteTara Jul 2023 #7

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I had to think about that for a bit WhiteTara Jul 2023 #6