The Poet as Scientist: What if a solar flare big enough to cause the 1859 Carrington Event occurred every decade?

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[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Monday, June 05, 2023

What if a solar flare big enough to cause the 1859 Carrington Event occurred every decade?

The Carrington Event of 1859 was the largest geomagnetic storm in recorded history, caused by an intense solar flare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event It caused auroras, and the destruction of Telegraph lines. Suppose that solar flares as big as the one that caused the 1859 Carrington Event occurred every decade, regularly. What effects would this have on science and technology?

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