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TIL that in 2012 a large solar storm nearly missed Earth by a margin of nine days. If it hit, it could have caused damages to a cost of around $2.6 trillion. (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Would we? I remember reading Ted Koppel’s book Lights Out a few years ago, but I’d assume that utilities, grid operators, and governments have been making efforts to improve grid resilience

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I find your excess of faith disturbing…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haha it’s less an excess of faith- more like someone else gets paid to worry about it, so i’m not gonna stress myself out for free

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah that worked super well with Covid.

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