I'm curious to know how many people heard of this CME. I just read about it today. I'm puzzled as to why it wasn't a much bigger news story.

https://www.kulr8.com/news/national/huge-doomsday-blast-from-sun-this-week-could-have-killed-earth-s-internet/article_c8a581ca-c9bd-5ec1-bb83-d1c723929d9b.html

I bet the problem is that everybody who spoke of it put as much effort into doing so as you have here.

Didn't click on the link, but...don't the words "could have killed" imply that nothing happened?
Where's the "big news" in that?

>>Breaking news: nothing happened!<< ?

I'm sure serious newspapers and news stations have better and more important news to spread.

https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/30444

Just out of curiosity, if a comet had just missed destroying Earth would that have warranted a response of: "Breaking news: nothing happened!"?

Saying "nothing happened" is obviously incorrect. A huge explosion of solar debris and charged particles from the sun is definitely something happening. A similar event took place in 1859 that was on the near side of the sun. It caused a lot of problems but would have been much more destructive in today's world because we have so much more in the way of electronics and power grids that would be disrupted.

If the event that occurred on March 12th had also occurred on the near side of the sun we would not be having this conversation right now. The point is that these events occur all of the time, but this CME was huge, and we were only spared devastation by the fact that it was on the far side of the sun instead of the near side like the one in 1859.

I heard nothing on the subject, the link does not open in Europe "451: Unavailable due to legal reasons".

All that shows in the news is the war and the inflation.

Too bad it didn't.

Try this link:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/03/dodging_the_apocalypse.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxXxr26mD04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftrbdFGTQO4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mAoaBc86Xg

No! Absolutely not! Because nothing happened! Nope, it is absolutely correct - because nothing happened!
(nobody cares what 1859 happened - because nothing happened in 2023)

Edit:
Here's something for you: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/asteroid-coming-exceedingly-close-earth-will-miss-rcna67623
That's from January, 26th. Did you raise a fuss then?

That thing flew by Earth in a distance of approx. 2.200 miles...to give you something to compare it to: ISS orbits Earth in approx. 250 miles.

Such things happen again and again...but as long as they don't hit: nothing happened.

And what not happens, doesn't warrant news reports.

I could have been struck by lightning and killed / permanently crippled during the last storm but I wasn't.

Should I be neurotically concerned about that event not happening?

A CME in itself is hardly newsworthy. A quick search says: "The frequency of CMEs varies with the 11 year solar cycle. At solar minimum we observe about one a week. Near solar maximum we observe an average of two to three CMEs per day." Seems like the very region that spawned that particular event created 16 others, including another X-class, in the couple of weeks before that one, while it was facing generally towards Earth. But newsworthy are those that blast Earth directly, otherwise they're very common events. And this one happened on the opposite side of the Sun, even if it was strong enough to have some effects all around.

that is just fear prn, earth has counter defenses, the aurora borrealis is what happens when these types of solar flares hit the earth

No it's not "obviously incorrect." Literally nothing happened. The MSM and/or so-called 'scientists" simply fabricate fables, then misrepresent them as if they are facts. That happens constantly with pretty much everything they assert about anything.

Supposedly if this particular CME, being much larger than normal, had been on the near side of the Sun, we would have seen some disastrous effects on our power grid and communications. I understand there are many of these on a regular basis. It's the size that made it significant. Thanks for the info and input.