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Is it really possible for a solar flare to destroy all electronic technology?
If so, what is your plan to cope when this happens?

>> No.15769020

>>15769019
My plan is to die in the massive riots/wars which happen afterwards.

>> No.15769026

>>15769019
Yes.

>> No.15769027

>>15769020
This. Preferably quickly.

>> No.15769178 [DELETED] 

>>15769020
>wars
how would that work when none of the military tech functions?

>> No.15769212

>>15769178
People would bash each other's skulls in with rocks or use bow and arrow. Also America has more guns than people, those wont stop working. Wars wouldn't be fought with tanks, it'd be fought by factions holding swaths of land looking to take whatever shit they can from other factions.

>> No.15769215

>>15769019
No. The electrical grid just acts like a big antenna for those surges. Anything with sufficient surge protection will be fine

>> No.15769220

>>15769019
>Is it really possible for a solar flare to destroy all electronic technology?
No, but one can dream.

>If so, what is your plan to cope when this happens?
Cope with what? It would be the best day of my life.

>> No.15769241

>>15769019
No. Susceptibility to electrical surges of this sort is extremely well understood and most infrastructure is well insulated against it (in the first world that is)

>> No.15769725

>>15769212
>those wont stop working
neither will combustion engine cars, EVs would probably all burn up from solar flare activity

>> No.15770047

>>15769725
Not modern IC, they're shonked full of so many pcbs, they'll just fry.

>> No.15770202

You don't need a galactic hard kill to end the digital internet age, sonny. It will brick, obsolete, and dispose itself until it hit the increasingly centuralized nerve, and it is not far into the future.

>> No.15770736

>>15770047
Cars haven't improved in 40 years, they're all still fast enough to go well over the speed limit. I drive a 1980s Volvo, all the electronics in newer cars is just chinky junk thats bound to fail regardless solar flares

>> No.15770750

>>15769212
>. Also America has more guns than people, those wont stop working
guns are doorstops without ammo.

>> No.15771576

>>15770750
Thats why people who have large collections of guns also stockpile ammo.

>> No.15771580

>>15771576
if madmax ensues bullets will be burgers new money/coins lol

>> No.15771592

>>15771580
Do any of you fucking niggers have anything in the way of originality when it comes to your little quips like that? Holy shit.

>> No.15771848
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15771848

>>15771592
the n word is racist

>> No.15772323

>>15769019
possible, sure, but very improbable
today most modern grids are resistant to pretty strong GICs, so even a Carrington-level event would probably not do too much damage
a Miyake-level event would probably do it as of now though, but they only come along every few thousand years, by the time one hits our grids can likely handle that with ease too
unless we're extremely unlucky our capabilities to handle GICs will scale much faster than the odds of events we can't handle yet occurring, until we're far past the level of resilience that can handle the maximum events Sol is capable of (estimated at around X500-X1000, once every tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years)

>> No.15773121

>>15769019
>Is it really possible for a solar flare to destroy all electronic technology?
I sure hope so

>> No.15773804

>>15769019
>If so, what is your plan to cope when this happens?
probably cannibalism, maybe some agriculture

>> No.15773812

>>15769019
a man can dream

>> No.15774078

>>15769019
No its a myth