The Carrington Event of 1859 and the Potential for a “Miyake Event”

Re:The Carrington Event of 1859 and the Potential for a “Miy... by dash2 on Monday September 11, 2023 @08:43AM (#37466386)

Japan after WWII recovered pretty fast even though the entire world had been set back a lot. Human knowledge is the key resource and electrical surges don't wipe that.

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Re:The Carrington Event of 1859 and the Potential for a “Miy... by Turskarama on Monday September 11, 2023 @09:10AM (#37466710)

That's a very different circumstance though. For one thing, the majority (about 3/4) of Japans manufacturing was actually still intact, it just wasn't up to the task of keeping up with Americas war machine (which it frankly wasn't even at its peak).

They also, as a key point, imported a lot during this period. That's something you can't do if everyone else has also collapsed.

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Re:The Carrington Event of 1859 and the Potential for a “Miy... by Aardwolf on Monday September 11, 2023 @08:48AM (#37466440)

Unless it manages to kill enough hard disks in data centers to truly lose a lot of knowledge...

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Re:The Carrington Event of 1859 and the Potential for a “Miy... by dash2 on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @07:45AM (#37479597)

All our important knowledge for the long-run still resides in physical books and journals. At most we'd lose some e-only scientific journals.

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