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This is the wrong community for this post. You should have posted this in Solar System News, as it effects more than just our world.
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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smh, typical geocentric worldview ignoring extraterrestrial perspectives.
"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast Cosmic arena." - John Cena
This is a day late
Actually I got better pictures tonight than last night
My mind is so jaded about news that for a brief moment I went "ugh. fucking climate change", when it has absolutely 0 to do with it
Well, space weather doesn't have zero to do with our climate, but on human timescales it's not very significant.
Imagine a CME that knocks out all our computers in the western hemisphere.
Current AI production is eating all the nand. Replacing everything would cost tens of thousands of dollars per person probably for years due to demand between AI and now this massive catastrophe. (Would they even bother with AI? would contracts just not be honored? I can't even imagine how f'd the whole thing would be.)
People would be freezing in the winters from power plants going down and running out of fresh water from computers dying until they get replaced...
The world we live in today is scary.
Imagine a CME that knocks out all our computers in the western hemisphere.
It won't. A CME is not an electromagnetic pulse. It's more a surge. Think hurricane rather than nuclear blast shockwave. We can see CMEs coming a day to three days before they hit, and there are mitigation measures to protect the grid (there are also mitigations for satellites, but they're less effective).
Look up the 1859 CME. Lloyds of London said back in 2013 that a sufficiently sized CME hitting the US would cost 600 billion to 2.3 trillion in damage. Power outages could last for up to two years. Inflation and rollout of even more technology would make that number look much larger today.
CMEs actually can produce electricity in circuitry. Really tiny circuitry that can only handle very small voltage and amperage can be fried if such a thing occurs. This kind of circuitry is in almost any kind of electronics.
anyway, here's the lloyds of london report. https://assets.lloyds.com/assets/pdf-solar-storm-risk-to-the-north-american-electric-grid/1/pdf-Solar-Storm-Risk-to-the-North-American-Electric-Grid.pdf
Meh. Knock out our satellites if you can, pussy.