No.13446
Why just about nobody seems to care about risk of strong solar storm on the scale of the carrington event?
Why there are no procedures made, spare transformers produced, emergency food and supplies stored around major cities, etc?
People care about climate change risks slowly damaging civilization over decades, and here we have risk (also scientifically and historically proven) that can just randomly disable worldwide electricity next year (extremely unlikely) or during the next 200 years (LIKELY) and we are doing nothing?
What is the logic in this? "Unlike climate change it will happen randomly, it may happen in 2054 or 2077, we may be already dead, we don't care"?
(No, nobody said that, I'm just trying to imagine reasons needed to ignore the issue).
Do you care about people who are now small children?
"It will PROBABLY not happen during my remaining lifetime, I'm fine with only 10% risk of dying from hunger or disorder among collapsing civilization"?
What is the logic here? What is the plan?
Are the risk overblown?
Or is the total fall of the industrial civilization so utterly and completely sure that there is no value of trying to save anything at all? Maybe at least some sort of archives carved on f****g stone, if not spare transformers, comms in Faraday cages and parts. Christ.
Or perhaps nobody outside of 20 scholars and Wikipedia heard about this issue?
Topic just unknown/boring (LOL) even for influential staff at FEMA?
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No.13449
>>13446We probably would need more than a few spare transformers. I think it would be a rather daunting task to create redundancy for a big Solar storm.
The best way to deal with this might be to have a reliable way to forecast this in advance so that we can uncouple the systems wait out the storm and then re-engage. That way we only need to have downtime rations. Oh and we'd have to replace satellites, all the satellites would be fucked. Yeah it would probably be wise to have back-up gps satellites, given how few people likely are still capable of navigating with a map.
>fall of the industrial civilizationIt wouldn't do that. Industrial civilization would get knocked down a peg or two, but it would start up again.
>Or perhaps nobody outside of 20 scholars and Wikipedia heard about this issue?Maybe we should tell the super-rich that wallstreet runs on computers, that might not like getting solar stormed.