Ooooo, how fun. Earth needs a giant bitch slap anyway.
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2023
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How many times we gonna hear earth getting bombarded with flares causing catastrophe and yet nothing?
Well no, we've had bad incidents. If you remember around 2000ish there was a pager and cellphone blackout because of flare activity.
No I don't remember that one but thanks for the link!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But the latest set of snaps from NASA actually show a cluster of 'sunspots' – cooler parts on the sun's surface caused by massive changes in our star's magnetic field.
Scientists warn they could shoot out violent explosions of energy towards Earth, causing geomagnetic storms that pose a danger to power grids and satellites.
Solar flares and CMEs are key focuses of astronomers due to concerns that they cause space weather events that impact Earth.
Huge clouds of electrified gas hurled into space from these events travel at hundreds of miles per second to hit the Earth's system of magnetic fields.
This can affect technologies on our planet such as power grids, communications, GPS navigation, air travel and satellites - but also causes beautiful auroras.
According to Space Weather, which routinely tracks interactions between the sun and Earth, this sunspot group was predicted before Solar Dynamics Observatory captured it.
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The source is the Daily Mail, a newspaper that was banned from being a Wikipedia source because it was so consistently unreliable.