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    Europe has just run its most extreme space weather simulation yet — a scenario so severe that no spacecraft was left unscathed in the exercise | ESA staged the exercise to see how it would respond to a solar superstorm rivalling 1859's Carrington Event - the most powerful ever recorded
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    Europe has just run its most extreme space weather simulation yet — a scenario so severe that no spacecraft was left unscathed in the exercise | ESA staged the exercise to see how it would respond to a solar superstorm rivalling 1859’s Carrington Event – the most powerful ever recorded


    Europe has just run its most extreme space weather simulation yet — a scenario so severe that no spacecraft was left unscathed in the exercise | ESA staged the exercise to see how it would respond to a solar superstorm rivalling 1859’s Carrington Event – the most powerful ever recorded

    https://www.space.com/astronomy/no-spacecraft-would-survive-europe-simulates-catastrophic-solar-storm-to-warn-of-real-risks

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    1. kaladinnotblessed on

      I’ve always wondered what a Carrington like event would do to earth today. So all satellites and spacecraft are at risk, but what about the ISS? And what happens on Earth? Does the power grid fail worldwide and we’re left without electricity/internet for a while? Or is it regional?

    2. Echo7ONE9ers on

      This is a big nothing potato; The 1859 Carrington Event disrupted telegraph systems for about 8 to 14 hours, with some regions experiencing issues for up to two days due to lingering geomagnetic disturbances.

      Edit: fyi; it didn’t destroy telegraph systems. It disrupted them temporarily, causing sparks, fires, and electric shocks, but most equipment was repaired and working again within a day or two.

      edit 2: This space sub is oversaturated with users who tend to exaggerate and catastrophize, driven by an irrational fear of societal collapse due to our dependence on electriicity and electronics. While a Carrington-level event would undoubtedly cause significant disruption, claims that it would end the world or kill millions are blatantly unrealistic and show a lack of understanding of space weather and its actual impacts, as some armchair scientists on this sub think.