As a physicist, in my faculty we discussed that once and we came to the conclusion that the consequences of the impact of a solar flare would be mitigated by 80% (aprox) if certain measures are taken.
There is a margin of several hours between the detection of a solar flame until it reaches the Earth; if in that time the whole humanity turned off the internet servers and all the power generators, most of the electronics could be saved. But of course, that implies a fairly large global coordination... This looks imposible because from the moment the solar flame is detected until that information reaches the public, it may be too late...
As far as I know, there are several countries that have this problem very into account and companies like Google know what they must do to avoid the destruction of their technology
ComfortableCarrot631 t1_ixkyho4 wrote
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As a physicist, in my faculty we discussed that once and we came to the conclusion that the consequences of the impact of a solar flare would be mitigated by 80% (aprox) if certain measures are taken.
There is a margin of several hours between the detection of a solar flame until it reaches the Earth; if in that time the whole humanity turned off the internet servers and all the power generators, most of the electronics could be saved. But of course, that implies a fairly large global coordination... This looks imposible because from the moment the solar flame is detected until that information reaches the public, it may be too late...
As far as I know, there are several countries that have this problem very into account and companies like Google know what they must do to avoid the destruction of their technology