telluride on Nostr: My dad was an engineer and he was obsessed with CME’s. —When I was a young teen, ...

My dad was an engineer and he was obsessed with CME’s.

—When I was a young teen, I was certain our power grid would get toasted at some point.
That was ~40 years ago. Nada.

CME’s happen all the time (I have an RSS feed) the reason they rarely hit Earth (ie Carrington Event of1859) is because of the vast distance and the absurd number of directions they can emit from
The most recent “Carrington-Level” CME was in 2012

Here’s a 4min vid on that one.
https://youtu.be/7ukQhycKOFw

quoting
nevent1q…hlqm

A powerful M6.86 solar flare has triggered a radio blackout and sent coronal mass ejections (CMEs) toward Earth, signaling an elevated risk of geomagnetic unrest over the coming days