Check it out! Technology survived a Carrington Event - eviltoast

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  • kalkulat@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The 2003 event produced the biggest-ever solar flare ever measured, an X45. That year, several BIG transformers exploded in South Africa. This event’s biggest so is 8.7. A lot depends on where it’s aimed at … but anyway , no, we are not prepared.