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"Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization? Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections" by Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHHSSJDJ4oo https://www.youtube.
by nayuki 6y ago
"Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization? Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections" by Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHHSSJDJ4oo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHHSSJDJ4oo
- koheripbal 6y agotldr: Nope.
- csaid81 6y agoI think the answer is not "nope" but "probably nope". That video is perhaps overconfident in our ability to detect these storms. From the article: > One-third of major storms arrive unexpectedly, according to the SWPC’s own 2010 analysis. And that’s not just the small storms. According to a news article in Science, the SWPC might be also be poor at identifying the characteristics of severe storms, since they are so rare.
- koheripbal 6y agoSometimes you get close enough to zero that for any reasonable application, the answer can be rounded to zero.