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Originally Posted by _Richard_
nonexistent? it has happened before within the last 200 years
and since it melted telegraph wire and turned the sky red.. i think we have a little more to worry about than 'older satellites'
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This. It's human nature to discount stuff like this that only happens once every 15+ generations or whatever - if we don't understand the risks firsthand we just keep on truckin despite what scientists might warn about.
During that 1859 storm you could see in the aurora in fucking CUBA and north of that it brightly covered the entire sky so you could read at night without any other light. So yeah, safe to say we've seen nothing like it in modern times, i.e. now that we basically depend on electricity and computers for everything. It would cause total chaos.
But who am I to talk, I live in a city built on silt beds that's overdue for a huge earthquake, and my old house would get wiped dafuq out. If there's a big Pacific NW earthquake and I stop posting here, it's because I got buried under tons of rubble.