"Even Carrington would be impressed" 😬
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=12&year=2025
Hopefully we just get "someone should check on our satellites" levels of auroras and not "A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered"
There were credible stories of people getting shocked from telegraph lines and such. Quick question, just in case - in today world, what would a Carrington level event do? What would people be well advised to do in such an event?
Plug your computers, phone chargers, etc into surge protectors. We already know that a Carrington event will cause a surge on long wires (like power lines and telegraph cables). A surge protector will stop it from damaging your equipment (although it may sacrifice itself in the process).
It may be some time before power becomes available again, but if and when it does, your equipment will be intact and uncooked.
@argv_minus_one
Do modern surge protectors work much?
Well, that's alarming.
I knew common surge protectors have a limited lifespan because the MOVs can only take so many surges before they permanently fail.
But I was not aware that the things would straight-up lie about whether their MOVs have failed.
Prof. Sam Lawler
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