https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/16/solar_storms/
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Great… just great… we’ll all die in December 2012 and then the internet will die in 2013. I don’t know which is the worse, seriously.
Fuck life.
^ I was gonna say that.
Well goodbye forums, internet, black mesa, ect. All of it is going to fry.
I’m going to bury some Lord of the Rings books so that when humanity rises again I will have created a new religion.
I’m going to build a fallout shelter and put everything important in it (hardware, pc stuff, movies, music, and possibly my family, if there is enough space) and it should be okay.
where will you get power?
Magic of course.
It goes without saying.
Oh great, just after I’ve received my degree in ICT.
can’t they decide on the damned year, first 2012, now 2013
Is there any kind of safe that I could buy to store my PC in so it would survive the solar storms?
I don’t want to buy a new EEE PC. :’(
will my PC also be damaged if I keep it away from power sockets?
Apparently it will. It knocks out the system completely. Or at least that’s how I deciphered the information.
ah crap, kill the sun before it kills us… wait…
Not like we’ll melt to death. Just keep it all in a strongbox or two, move to Russia, where the sun never shines.
The sun can’t break into your house and fry all of your electronics without killing you first.
oh you mean like the kind that happen ALL THE FUCKING TIME? like you know, the ones that cause the auroras? retards.
those sunstorms will be much stronger
“sunstorm” isn’t even a thing. you’re either talking about coronal mass ejections or solar flares or at the very worst (still not bad) a geomagnetic storm, none of which pose any significant threat besides MAYBE disabling a few tv stations, temporarily.
edit: read the article, haha it’s about a cme. those happen every time there’s a solar flare.
also notice how it says the sun has an 11 year cycle, as in these things happen every 11 years, without destroying civilization.
By gum, he’s right. The data is all here, and it all checks out.