#DoomWatch!
Carrington, and (we now know) Miyake, Events will definitely happen again in future, and if we're still going, they'll end human civilisation* like throwing a switch. Is anyone doing anything about it? (No -- for the same reason, I suspect, that when nuclear weapon exchanges came up as a risk when I was working on BCP / DR plans, the consensus was "we don't need to worry about business continuity, because if it happens, we'll have rather more urgent concerns than remote access to the admin VPNs on our minds.")
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240815-miyake-events-the-giant-solar-superstorms-that-could-rock-earth

* and there's no way survivors could rebuild in the following centuries, because... Well, I'm sure it's too obvious to need spelling out.

#futurology #doomed #solarPhysics #miyakeEvent #endOfTheWorld

The superstorms from space that could end modern life

The Sun is going through a period of high activity, but it is nothing compared to an enormous solar event that slammed into our planet 14,000 years ago.

BBC