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Re:The Carrington Event of 1859 and the Potential for a “Miy... by TechBro8615 on Monday September 11, 2023 @08:22AM (#37466166)
Would it be global or would it only be the side of the Earth that was facing the Sun at the time of impact?
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Re:The Carrington Event of 1859 and the Potential for a “Miy... by Turskarama on Monday September 11, 2023 @08:42AM (#37466375)
It hardly matters. Pick a hemisphere, you will probably hit 2 of China, the US, and Europe. No matter what a large chunk of the worlds manufacturing is going down.
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Re:The Carrington Event of 1859 and the Potential for a “Miy... by pixl97 on Monday September 11, 2023 @03:33PM (#37472536)
Not the side, it's about the hemisphere. And in general the northern hemisphere is weaker to intrusions by powerful electromagnetic events (would have to lookup why again). It also turns out that most of the worlds population is in the northern hemisphere above the tropic of cancer.
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