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Re:Did a Solar Storm Detonate Deep Sea Mines During the Viet... by knowaveragejoe on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @07:59PM (#22951455)
Aren't electronics today more sturdy from am EM perspective than their counterparts in the 60s and 70s? Not that a strong solar flare couldn't cause problems regardless.
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Re:Did a Solar Storm Detonate Deep Sea Mines During the Viet... by Arubis on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @10:07PM (#22952185)
If they're specced to be (military, aerospace), sure. But the move from vacuum tubes to transistors, for all its incredible advantages, made everything a lot more EM vulnerable.
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Re:Did a Solar Storm Detonate Deep Sea Mines During the Viet... by Piskvorrr on Thursday April 23, 2020 @04:58AM (#22954063)
Quite the contrary: as silicon processes shrink, electronics become more vulnerable.
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