Is a solar storm strong enough to wipe out modern technology going to happen in 2025?

[bingbongbangbung]

Yup!

Nah.

Uh?

[NamerOfStars]

Possibly- one happened back in... 2015? Or was it 2008? Some point a few years ago, but still in this century. It almost hit us, too. And while it's obviously not going to "wipe out technology", since there's nothing we don't have the blueprints for (except the recipes for Coke and KFC chicken, but I imagine those could be reverse-engineered, and Saturn Vs, but that's not modern, and ALREADY nobody knows how to make them), but it COULD wipe out the power grid. And EMP-fry quite a few things, though less than most people think.

Thing is, there isn't really anything we can do about it; we can't affect the weather on the sun.

[bingbongbangbung]

I read a major storm happened in 1989 where parts of Canada lost power for months or something. Before that was in the early 1800s but there wasn't any tech that could be EMP'd then.

[Guardian45]

Maybe. I sent know. I think solar storms reoccur every 11 years, if I'm not mistaken.

[Guardian45]

DON'T ***

[bingbongbangbung]

They occur more often but for storms to directly hit Earth is less common

[Snsl153]

That's the sunspot cycle.

[Guardian45]

@Snsl153.
"The Sun is typically very active when sunspot counts are high. Sunspots are indicators of disturbances in the the Sun's magnetic field, which can generate energetic solar events like solar flares and coronal mass ejections... The Sun emits significantly more radiation than usual in the X-ray and ultraviolet portions of the electromagnetic spectrum during solar max, and this extra energy significantly alters the uppermost layers of Earth's atmosphere."

[Guardian45]

Coronal Mass Ejections=Solar Flare=Earth Geomagnetic Storm

[Guardian45]

Thank you gir MHG!

[bingbongbangbung]

I never chose you as MHG

[Guardian45]

Then system did

[saffoler]

Our current grid, yes.