The Carrington Event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines

Post by dgroshev » Tue, Sep 12, 2023, 12:06 AM UTC

pixl97 wrote: post #113

namlem wrote: post #76

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We could decouple transformers to stop them from being destroyed. Wiring is easy to repair, it's the transformers that are vulnerable.

We 'could' at least in theory. The actual response I expect is something closer to "don't look up"

Post by beerandt » Tue, Sep 12, 2023, 12:29 AM UTC

rwmj wrote: post #11

> Astronauts would undoubtedly receive lethal doses of radiation, and even people on board airplanes could encounter dangerous levels. It sounds like a more immediate problem would be that all aircraft and spacecraft electronic systems would fail permanently? They wouldn't need to worry about the radiation doses.

Post by dgroshev » Tue, Sep 12, 2023, 1:21 AM UTC

pixl97 wrote: post #132

dgroshev wrote: post #131

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We (humanity) have multiple satellites looking at the sun 24/7 and warning of flares in advance [1]. There's even a running forecast of geomagnetic events [2]. We very much do "look up" and have been for decades. [1] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/sun/exploration/ [2] https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/solar-flares-radio-black...

We 'scientists' look for that and have solar weather forecasts. We 'for profit capitalists' have never completely shut down the entire economy by turning off all the power, hence causing billions and billions of dollars in damages to avoid the end of modern society. The whole damned point of don't look up is the scientists looked up the entire time, the businesses/governments/citizens at large did not.

Post by Georgelemental » Tue, Sep 12, 2023, 3:15 AM UTC

shitstorms wrote: post #35

One of the more likely black swan events that has the potential to cause global upheaval. Quite a bit of data now from other solar systems in terms of likelihood of these events. So far it looks like it is slightly more likely to occur in the ramp up stage of a cycle, not at the very peak. We would most likely see a very large sunspot(s) days before the event and have 10-15 hours to take action, decoupling transforme…

Post by tomjakubowski » Tue, Sep 12, 2023, 5:10 AM UTC

snypher wrote: post #101

tomjakubowski wrote: post #77

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Some random Australian gold prospector wrote about his experience (quoting Wikipedia): Lights of every imaginable color were issuing from the southern heavens, one color fading away only to give place to another if possible more beautiful than the last, the streams mounting to the zenith, but always becoming a rich purple when reaching there, and always curling round, leaving a clear strip of sky, which may be descri…

But this was not in reference to the 774AD event surely! Do you have a citation for the above quote? Edit: you probably meant the Carrington event, I am starting my next coffee now.