What’s the relationship between sunspots and geomagnetic storms that can affect the earth? Is this just panic bait or is there actually something potential here?
Sun spots produce solar flares if the magnetic lines break. Big enough solar flares have enough ionizing radiation to work like an EMP. Knocking out satellites, phones, computers, modern cars, basically anything electronic that isn’t shielded. The chances of that happening are fairly low tho.
If it rivals the Carrington event though, it will likely have catastrophic effects. Pretty sure a bunch of infrastructure nationally could not withstand such an event. Unprotected electronics basically get fried.
Yup, that’s the point. The grid fails, nobody has any communication, most digital records are gone. Good times.