>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/So lar_storm_of_1859

>>8518034
>On July 23, 2012 a "Carrington-class" Solar Superstorm was observed; its trajectory missed Earth in orbit. Information about these observations was first shared publicly by NASA on April 28, 2014
So did they not know about it until afterwards, or did they simply not make the information public?

>>8518055
the paper on the event was published december of 2013, which is a pretty typical turnaround on event versus publication

>>8518034
>mobile link
>believes the exaggerated reports on expected EM damage

calm down you cunt. The world can work without facebook for a while anyway.

>>8518358
I'm more worried about hard drives getting fried

anything else we could recover from, but the amount of information and art stored on computers is so vast that the burning of the library of alexandria would pale in comparison

>>8518372

Thats why my anime collection is on drives in a lead box.

>>8518381
Lead is to block x-rays and nuclear radiation, EM shielding is needed for a possible destructive solar flare

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>>8518055
You could watch it unfold on SOHO C3 and C2 as well as EIT 304. If it looks that way it will not be geoeffective. But when you see a halo-type CME with subsequent 'snow' from proton impacts, you better duck and cover. Try sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/data_query to find the images (it doesn't let me in).

>>8518372
>Not covering your home server in the aluminum foil from hot pocket sleeves.

And you thought we were doing it for free.

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>>8519199
Kek

>>8519034
Will tin foil work as a faraday cage?

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>>8519034
>EM shielding is needed
You cannot shield the grid. When the iphone goes dark for good, this was it.
In November of 2003 an X28 Class solar flare - the largest ever recorded - narrowly missed earth.
www.activistpost.com/2013/08/carrington-class-event-world-escaped.html
(caution, doomporn)