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Powerful solar eruption is heading for Earth and could supercharge the northern lights over the US this week (www.space.com)

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[–] Shindo66@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Youre both right. We do have a lot of hardening against such things, but getting hit with a sizable flare could really really disrupt things. It would take a really hard hit for the doom to happen. After a hit, it would be a hard question of what gets fixed first. Would society collapse? i dont think anyone can really know until it happens. Do those people in Indiana have power yet?