Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
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Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
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Re: Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
#2The sky is falling!
Seriously, though, I am not knowledgeable enough about these CMEs and how they compare to the past ones. Are there any good historical analyses?
Re: Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
#3Can you really call yourself a prepper if you don’t have a faraday cage with a spare laptop inside?
(The intersection of doomerism and tech is amusingly cyberpunk sometimes.)
Actually, what’s the most useful way you’d prepare for a worldwide grid outage? This isn’t that, but sometimes I wonder if a future CME might be as catastrophic as some say.
Re: Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
#4Can you really call yourself a prepper if you don’t have a faraday cage with a spare laptop inside? (The intersection of doomerism and tech is amusingly cyberpunk sometimes.) Actually, what’s the most useful way you’d prepare for a worldwide grid outage? This isn’t that, but sometimes I wonder if a future CME might be as catastrophic as some say.
> Actually, what’s the most useful way you’d prepare for a worldwide grid outage?
Be on a government payroll and have the skills necessary to repair the damage.
Re: Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
#5Can you really call yourself a prepper if you don’t have a faraday cage with a spare laptop inside? (The intersection of doomerism and tech is amusingly cyberpunk sometimes.) Actually, what’s the most useful way you’d prepare for a worldwide grid outage? This isn’t that, but sometimes I wonder if a future CME might be as catastrophic as some say.
I would also like to know any practical answers to your question. My assumption is that there would be widespread panic, and I'm not sure how I would go about dealing with that other than waiting it out.
Re: Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
#6The sky is falling! Seriously, though, I am not knowledgeable enough about these CMEs and how they compare to the past ones. Are there any good historical analyses?
My understanding is bigger than normal, but a lot smaller than storms that have caused grid issues.
Re: Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
#7Can you really call yourself a prepper if you don’t have a faraday cage with a spare laptop inside? (The intersection of doomerism and tech is amusingly cyberpunk sometimes.) Actually, what’s the most useful way you’d prepare for a worldwide grid outage? This isn’t that, but sometimes I wonder if a future CME might be as catastrophic as some say.
According to pop culture, a closet full of old sports equipment will be indispensable. Goalie masks etc.
Re: Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
#8Can you really call yourself a prepper if you don’t have a faraday cage with a spare laptop inside? (The intersection of doomerism and tech is amusingly cyberpunk sometimes.) Actually, what’s the most useful way you’d prepare for a worldwide grid outage? This isn’t that, but sometimes I wonder if a future CME might be as catastrophic as some say.
Ignoring unrealistic preparations for most of us (such as bunkers and whatever else), an adequate supply of food and water to handle disruptions to logistics for a realistic amount of time must surely be the lowest hanging fruit (e.g. a month?). This is fairly trivial if you aim for things like rice and pasta, and if the grid goes down for longer than a month a lot of us are dying regardless of how we prepare.
Re: Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
#9Can you really call yourself a prepper if you don’t have a faraday cage with a spare laptop inside? (The intersection of doomerism and tech is amusingly cyberpunk sometimes.) Actually, what’s the most useful way you’d prepare for a worldwide grid outage? This isn’t that, but sometimes I wonder if a future CME might be as catastrophic as some say.
I have a 50kw generac tied into my house with a 1000 gallon propane tank.
Re: Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
#10The K-index for this is an 8 which is one less than an extreme G5 geomagnetic storm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-index). I haven't been able to find it, so I'm curious what the Carrington event K-index was?