Home Libraries Will Save Civilization

Re:Home Libraries Will Save Civilization by halfcat on Saturday October 12, 2024 @11:14PM (#41824896)

Totally expected this to be about how, after earth’s digital information is wiped out by a solar event, the knowledge of how we do anything will only be preserved in physical books.

I think about this often, as I’m reading or listening to a digital book, and I’ve started going back to buying more physical books.

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Re:Home Libraries Will Save Civilization by chubot on Sunday October 13, 2024 @12:22AM (#41825127)

I find it hard to imagine a solar event that will wipe out info on both sides of the earth evenly :-)

I think all the missing people and countries would be just as big a problem …

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Re:Home Libraries Will Save Civilization by crooked-v on Sunday October 13, 2024 @04:16AM (#41826131)

I think the reference is more about geomagnetic storms caused by solar flares, like the Carrington Event (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event), which if it happened today would probably wreck most power grids across the planet.

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