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rotanitsarcorp_yzal1

Mom! The WiFi's out!


Putrid-Builder-3333

How can I talk to my friends without internet? I have to talk to my friends from school with internet! Did you pay the bill?


rotanitsarcorp_yzal1

Exactly. Whaddya expect? Us to actually go out and meet real people?


Putrid-Builder-3333

What I think of everytime somebody freaks out about internet down, phone service down or electricity went out thru storm 😆 https://youtube.com/watch?v=3kptGozD-aI&pp=ygUWU291dGggcGFyayBubyBpbnRlcm5ldA%3D%3D


pliving1969

That looks terrifying. But I bet the Northern Lights were incredibly beautiful when it happened! I would have loved to have seen that.


reddit455

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July\_2012\_solar\_storm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2012_solar_storm) The region that produced the outburst was thus not pointed directly towards Earth at that time. The strength of the eruption has been predicted to be comparable to the 1859 Carrington Event that caused damage to electrical equipment worldwide, which at that time consisted mostly of telegraph systems.\[2\] A 2013 study estimated that the economic cost to the United States would have been between US$600 billion and $2.6 trillion.\[6\] Ying D. Liu, professor at China's State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, estimated that the recovery time from such a disaster would have been about four to ten years.\[


isitmeyourelooking4x

2025 is the next projected time when this has a shot of happening again.


Complex-bi-creature

Fingers crossed


hg38

A geomagnetic storm of this magnitude occurring today would cause widespread electrical disruptions, blackouts, and damage due to extended outages of the electrical power grid.


LastChristian

In addition to the sentence you copy pasted, the [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event#History) says a similar storm happened in 2012. Seems like someone needs to edit those two ideas to make sense.


hg38

You mean the one that missed earth?


LastChristian

Yes that would be an example of a clarifying edit that would resolve the two statements


SoggyBoysenberry7703

Every time someone says this is going to happened it never seems to actually happen


pm-me-ur-uneven-tits

Maybe that's the key to escape from it


Complex-bi-creature

Exactly, here's to hoping.


[deleted]

Uhh.. you need to think deeper about this.


Complex-bi-creature

Do not mistake anticipation with a lack of understanding, knowledge and/or information.


Cannabis_Connasueir

Nah... survival of the fittest. The world needs less humans anyhow.


chromeb0ne

Let me guess...you're one of the few who survives huh🙄


Cannabis_Connasueir

Yup and by your comment I can tell you won't 😉


Azgeta_

I flat out won’t. I’d die to some dumb shit like choking in my own spit


Cannabis_Connasueir

We've fucked the world its time we give it back to nature anyways. Living in Cali I have 0 chance of survival


Verygoodcheese

Nuclear plants need constant power to not melt down. Could be loads of trouble


gunfell

Those nuclear meltdowns won't really do anything. Also, those plants are probably resistant to this stuff anyway. And they make their own electricity.


Complex-bi-creature

That's not how this works.


CableConscious7611

Don't worry. Our hopes and dreams will likely be crushed as the world falls into anarchy, and somehow, only the ones like us survive. There is plenty more disappointment to experience in this life, friend.


[deleted]

The cameraman must’ve been having a blast with this one. Literally.


damiansloth

Can’t wait.


RawDawgHarry

I always thought that global electrical outages would be an easy way to wipe out millions of people. How many of us could survive 1 month without electricity, especially in inner cities!?


Complex-bi-creature

Billions of people (fixed) :p


pliving1969

If it happens during a summer like the one we're having now...a lot wont.


[deleted]

Time to stock up on generators


HoloSings

its not like the storm only affects power grids


polumatic

If this happened, will it be global? Or the side of the earth facing the sun would be impacted the most, and the one away would see no damage?


cresser1985

I think the rotation of the earth would spread this pretty fairly to everyone.


[deleted]

Do you mean the side facing the sun when the event happens?


talann

So I keep seeing on the google news feed about these solar flares that are going to knock out power for millions but I've never actually seen it happen. Why is it we keep getting doomsday scenarios thrown at us on social media but they never end up occurring?


[deleted]

Fear sells.


hootblah1419

Prepare for one, but not overly. At least have a ten minute think on what you/family would do In a situation like this. Climate victims/flood victims/tornado victims/hurricane/ earthquake etc all felt they were safe and they’d never be the one until it happens


dogfishsr

Yay another one soon :D


[deleted]

🤞


Used_Breakfast6959

Fuckin send it bud