number6 , 1 month ago @arstechnica Asteroids are very infrequent, and not always deadly. There were multiple factors that made the Cretaceous asteroid strike so deadly. But it now appears that severe solar storms, 10x greater than the Carrington event of the 1860s, may occur every few thousand years. There's almost nothing we could do about an asteroid (despite the article), but we could be hardening our electrical and communications system now.
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Asteroids are very infrequent, and not always deadly. There were multiple factors that made the Cretaceous asteroid strike so deadly.
But it now appears that severe solar storms, 10x greater than the Carrington event of the 1860s, may occur every few thousand years.
There's almost nothing we could do about an asteroid (despite the article), but we could be hardening our electrical and communications system now.