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Each year, is about a 1/2 of 1 percent the sun will give out a flare so big, it will not only destroy all power distribution to the half of the earth exposed, and destroy the internet there, but cut off food distribution, starving most of the population in any county . Last time it happened was in the 1800s but no stuff to destroy then. And food was local.
It would be years before things were normal . Our current setup is literally doomed to failure for a random half of the earth
There was a bit of tech around at the time - telegraph. The flare sparked fires in telegraph offices and shocked some operators. As in electric shock, not a big fright, though no doubt also that. Some operators disconnected their batteries and were able to communicate by the auroral current alone.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
The descriptions of the aurora are wild.
Can we just aim it at Belgium and all have a jolly good laugh?
Belgium is 50 years in the past. Won't work that well.
Source: Dutchman.
Also, these days that is a compliment.
Well, I guess it is racist Wednesday for some of the planet currently, even if not my timezone ....but why them?
Are you simply dying to be offended on someone else's behalf darling? Sweety?
Pour yourself a large G&T, poppet, there's a dear
I'll never turn down G&T, but more importantly, what did Belgium ever do to you? I'm just curious...
If you've got a spinning wheel of 'who's gonna get it today' and Belgium came up, that's fine, too
It's an intercultural joke from where I'm from.
I'm sorry that you're so bo-o-o-ring that you can neither appreciate nor spontaneously produce humour, and that you have to resort to pretending to be morally superior to try to get attention for yourself by randomly calling people racists like some sort of yank
No, not at all - I think it's hilarious! You've completely misread me
I was just curious as to why them (obviously we've got to pick on someone)
Making jokes on Brussels is popular with anti-EU factions, just FYI. Not exclusively so, of course, but its their main goto.
Like seeing someone wearing an England flag as a cape, football game or no game, its just best to keep clear of that person
LET'S GO GAMBLING
let's hope the americans get the next flare
wait no, it could very well be over the pacific. But poor polynesians ๐
Boy I can't wait.