That’s just false. The carrington event happened due to a sun spot on the sun’s equator. Last week’s was far further down, and was classified as “the strongest geomagnetic storm since 2003”.
The CME from the carrington event was fired out of the sun on the solar plane, directly at the earth, while last week the CME was vaguely in our direction, but well below our orbit. The sun is a ball, not a flat disc, and it didn’t somehow steer the ejection toward us out of a sense of malice.
The carrington event produced currents in static wire that were sufficient to set telegraph stations on fire. That would have tripped every breaker in the power grid, you can’t “harden” against that level of induction. It’s like saying that a practice amp and a Marshall plexi are the same volume because they both go up to ten on their volume knob. All you, and the pillock in that video, are saying is that you don’t understand the mechanism behind that number
Biased against a moronic idea? I don’t quite see what you’re getting at. If he wasn’t biased against this he’d be an idiot. It’s a really stupid plan, like most tech-bro ideas turn out to be
A factual comparison of the recent solar storm to the Carrington event ( www.astronomy.com )
Spoiler - though they were both G5 storms, they weren’t really that comparable....
Check it out! Technology survived a Carrington Event ( youtu.be )
I guess you already knew since your phone is working.
Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards ( www.cnet.com )
Libertarian Sea Pods: A Hilarious Aquatic Disaster - YouTube ( youtube.com )
You underestimate my power! ( lemmy.world )