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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
All it will take is an x100 class solar flare pointed at earth and anything that bigger than a micro grid fries.
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That's a big 10-4!
In the summer of 1992, the National Solar Observatory, while imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope picked up a flare which erupted on a young star while trained on the Pleides. Had this flare occurred on the Sun, it would have sterilized the surface of the Earth.
Enjoy everyday. They're not to be taken for granted.