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mk  ·  960 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Look for a nice aurora on Thursday (April 14)

    "uh oh..." coronal mass ejection headed right for us, this ain't it.

I was talking to my uncle about this just today. Of really bad scenarios that are out of our control, this one doesn't seem particularly remote. A present-day Carrington Event could be the complete undoing of civilization.