New data that could provide warning of catastrophic solar storms. We need this both in space and on earth. I worry much more about the sun acting up than I do CO2.
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New data that could provide warning of catastrophic solar storms. We need this both in space and on earth. I worry much more about the sun acting up than I do CO2.
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Predicting the next “Carrington Event” would be useful, if we can actually do anything to prepare for it. I can barely get my PC monitor/TV unplugged before a thunderstorm — and if I don’t the fluctuations in AC line power trip a breaker and render my main machine un-usable for a full day until the breaker decides to re-set itself.
Predicting the next Tunguska Event would be even more useful, though harder still to prepare for — though it would be nice if we knew in advance the impact was NOT a deliberate act of war by some rogue nation like North Korea or Pakistan. (Though were I some Dr. Doom like despot I might decide to launch my missile so as to co-incide with a meteor strike, adding to my adversaries’ confusions.)
Predicting the next stair-step event in the long slow gradual harmless history of “Global Warming” is not useful at all. Why bother?
Mrs. McG and I sacrificed many a PC to the power surge gods until we threw in the towel and started buying only laptops.
Now we only have to replace them when the OS gods “upgrade” their bloaterating systems beyond the hardware’s capability. Which is why I switched to Linux Mint.
Here’s what happened at a Carrington event (one of many) in the 1980s.
Doesn’t look so scary to me.