Oh, it’s way worse. We had a near miss in 2012:
Solar flare nearly destroyed Earth 2 years ago: NASA
“The power of this ejection would have raced across space to knock us back to the Dark Ages. It’s believed a direct CME hit would have the potential to wipe out communication networks, GPS and electrical grids to cause widespread blackout. The article goes on to say it would disable “everything that plugs into a wall socket. Most people wouldn’t even be able to flush their toilet because urban water supplies largely rely on electric pumps.”
This article isn’t speculation; the power of the ejection was directly observed and recorded. Remember, once those grid intertie transformers blow, there’s only two companies that make them, and onsies-twosies wait time is two years now. So it’ll take a long time to come back.
EMP = Blackout = No gas = No supplies transport = starvation & disease. Forget about the “inconvenience” of losing GPS.
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Mouse Wizard.
