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Cadaver747: P.S. If the Sun somehow would break the internet even for a day, I would celebrate! (unless some disasters happens due to it)
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Braggadar: You can take it as a given that chaos will ensue if the internet goes down, even for a day, a week, a month.

Everything in this society is so tied to using the internet that nothing will be working.

When the internet goes down at the local store they can't use their card facilities. If they've decided not to use cash nor keep a paper receipt book below the counter they're not going to sell you stuff. And that happens on a local outage. Imagine even going to a hospital with their systems down. IT systems are no-longer independent if they lose connection. They use off-site record-keeping etc and the system becomes useless without that off-site server access.
"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?"
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Saint Genesius: "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?"
We're already asking this about the rest of this logic-forsaken thread, but what are you trying to accomplish here? You quoted his latest post...and then you quoted his earliest post, but add exactly nothing what-so-ever to the conversation. Can we please lock this now?
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Saint Genesius: I just asked if anyone else had heard of this event (CME or Solar Storm) taking place recently.
I saw a bunch of news headlines at the time, including this event. I didn't click on it because I still don't care. I have far too many issues in my life to care at all about something I can't control and can't do anything about. I guess most people are similar.
I didn't know, unfortunately. These kind of events are rare and I find them very interesting. Although they are almost imperceptible to our senses, today we have the means to discover them and learn something along the way.

I believe that all knowledge is useful, even if it does not have immediate consequences for us, that can always change :)
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Saint Genesius: "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?"
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LegoDnD: We're already asking this about the rest of this logic-forsaken thread, but what are you trying to accomplish here? You quoted his latest post...and then you quoted his earliest post, but add exactly nothing what-so-ever to the conversation. Can we please lock this now?
Apparently, it requires an explanation. My original post was about what could happen if a CME occurred on the near side of the Sun that was similar to the one that occurred in 1859, or ANY really big CME on the near side of the Sun. All I wanted to know was if anyone else had heard of these CMEs or their recent increase in activity, and what they thought about it. Then it immediately devolved into how I was proclaiming the world was ending, and how it was pointless to discuss what would happen. His second post completely contradicts his first post. Now he's discussing what would happen in such an event.
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Saint Genesius: I just asked if anyone else had heard of this event (CME or Solar Storm) taking place recently.
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BlueMooner: I saw a bunch of news headlines at the time, including this event. I didn't click on it because I still don't care. I have far too many issues in my life to care at all about something I can't control and can't do anything about. I guess most people are similar.
It seems kind of sad that you can't even mention or discuss real scientific events that are occurring without people getting upset and interpreting it as fear mongering about the end of the world.

I can't help but wonder how these same people feel about the real, and constant fear mongering that takes place every day. It seems like the overwhelming majority of people are completely supportive of the climate change fear mongering with it's endless wrong predictions of the end of humanity if you don't bow down before them immediately.

I will say no more on the subject.
Post edited March 25, 2023 by user deleted
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Saint Genesius: "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?"
I never said I was concerned. It's just like knowing that a lightning strike is quite dangerous.
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Saint Genesius: It seems kind of sad that you can't even mention or discuss real scientific events that are occurring without people getting upset and interpreting it as fear mongering about the end of the world.

I can't help but wonder how these same people feel about the real, and constant fear mongering that takes place every day. It seems like the overwhelming majority of people are completely supportive of the climate change fear mongering with it's endless wrong predictions of the end of humanity if you don't bow down before them immediately.

I will say no more on the subject.
I was about to say you were into something with your first paragraph, but then I read your second.

I guess you are somewhat selective in the empirical scientific observations we should take into account.

Btw, it is not just the climate change, but the increasing toxicity of our environment (rainwater in most locations on Earth contains levels of chemicals that greatly exceed safety levels, which to be clear doesn't mean you're going to die, but puts you at an increased risk of cancer, fertility issues and developmental problems for children... let that sync in for a moment... even with green energy, all those electronic devices and other highly processed components we're creating with all those toxic elements in them, they aren't "free") and the looming collapse of many of the life forms that support our ecosystem (without whom our planet would be far less hospitable).
Post edited March 25, 2023 by Magnitus
Gotta love these "news" articles.
Did they write the same one 8 years ago?


Thanks to the Assassins and ISU we have a working shield, remember?
Chicken Licking, is that you ?...
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Saint Genesius: Apparently, it requires an explanation. My original post was about what could happen if a CME occurred on the near side of the Sun that was similar to the one that occurred in 1859, or ANY really big CME on the near side of the Sun. All I wanted to know was if anyone else had heard of these CMEs or their recent increase in activity, and what they thought about it.
Here are the effects of some other X-class CMEs that hit Earth directly, one as recently as last year: https://www.space.com/12584-worst-solar-storms-sun-flares-history.html

Won't comment about your next post because... yeah...