• NaN
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      329 months ago

      That’s a fun little language nuance. Narrowly or barely would be better, physically describing the distance of the miss is uncommon.

      It was a near miss though, as in “close call”.

      • @[email protected]
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        429 months ago

        The nuance is that “near miss” and “nearly miss” mean exact opposites.

        “Near miss” means it almost hits, but actually misses.

        “Nearly miss” means it almost misses, but it actually hits.

        They just messed up the phrase.

  • @[email protected]
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    319 months ago

    Dude so the Mayans and all the Nostradamus hooplah could’ve coincidentally occurred with that solar storm?! Ya’ll remember that right?

  • Rhaedas
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    299 months ago

    A Carrington event level impact will be quite a disaster, and it’s only a matter of time. But if that’s not bad enough for you, look up Miyake events. Seemingly far more devastating in what it could do to a technological society, and we don’t know what the source is. Doesn’t seem to be the Sun as it doesn’t line up with other things. And we’re within the time range for another one, given when the last few ones were based on evidence.

  • @[email protected]
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    269 months ago

    One of these hit Earth in the late 1800’s, and it was wild. Telegraph lines were setting on fire and people would get shocked just from touching the telegraphs. And that was when we had just barely started to wrap the world in conductive wire, if this happened now we would be majorly screwed.

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      79 months ago

      Would we? I remember reading Ted Koppel’s book Lights Out a few years ago, but I’d assume that utilities, grid operators, and governments have been making efforts to improve grid resilience

    • @can
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      49 months ago

      My power goes out every hurricane which is at least once a year.

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        59 months ago

        Yeah but the power going out is what is supposed to happen. Its a good thing. It means the fault was cleared and the area made safe. The issue with one of these events is were not currently protecting against it in a lot of places. So real bad things have the potential of happening WITHOUT the power going out. No breakers tripping (or not tripping fast enough) means more equipment damage. It currently takes over a year to build a HV transformer, and that’s with power. What happens when 500 all explode at the same time (cause the power didn’t go out fast enough) and we need to replace them all at once? Without power?

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          19 months ago

          Yeah but the power going out is what is supposed to happen. Its a good thing. It means the fault was cleared and the area made safe.

          No, it means a tree fell on a power line.

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    219 months ago

    Plot twist: it did hit in 2012. Any survivors had their consciousnesses uploaded to simulation.