Its absence saves dsta volume

@@Skullair313 why the fuck would i want the podcast to be less loud

Yeah, but Tama-god-chi is still a pretty good line.

I call upon Trashfuture to respect the original title, but I also respect their choice to change.

@@dorianhinkle5595 I don't respect their decision to make the podcast worse by removing the audio visualizer

@@franslair2199 yeah it does suck, Riley is practicing Tory austerity policies on his own damn podcast😞

tbf, one of the key liabilities in the form of long-range transmission wires has been substantially hardened to such events in the past decade or so. Regarding transformers, it's proving difficult and expensive to keep replacing them in Ukraine in the face of a determined effort by the Russians to destroy their energy infrastructure. I imagine having anywhere near a necessary stockpile to enable a quick recovery from a major solar storm would be near impossible. Even if you could, you would face substantial difficulties in organizing and distributing them, particularly if survivalists start taking matters into their own hands and emulating warlords, there's enough of that concerning conspiratorial language and behavior floating around already.

@@jacobmartin1100 There are ways to address all of this in advance, but it all costs money. Private industry won't invest any more then they have to because the shareholders demand returns, and government won't because politicians don't get elected by promising higher taxes. Mostly you just bury transmission lines - it's expensive, but it makes them resistant to all weather events and most weaponry. You still need to replace transformers, but those are at least located in nicely accessible facilities with roads. You can also upgrade the protective devices that should disconnect transformers so they are less likely to be damaged, and fit protective filters on control electronics.

I'd also add that last storm was nothing compared to Carrington. That event is still the record-holding geomagnetic storm - no other has been recorded to match the intensity. But it was a truly exceptional event. That storm was putting out so much flux it set telegraphy equipment on fire and had the aurora pushed so far you could see it in Mexico. We've seen nothing even close to that since. If we did experience another Carringon event, it would certainly shut down power grids all over the world. There are automated disconnects that would prevent the most serious damage, so we're not looking at collapse-of-civilisation level disaster here, but it would take days to restore power to critical areas and some more rural towns might be without power for weeks while engineers work through the repair backlog. It would be a serious inconvenience for all.

Im an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations - the only event I really worry about is a Carrington event. They are more common than we thought and we are mistaking the lack of them damaging civilisation so far for a lack of threat. We have just been super lucky so far.

@@vylbird8014 "But it was a truly exceptional event. " no it wasn't - it was only exceptional that it was in our direction - they happen all the time but you have 360º x 360º of direction for them to go in - another WILL hit the earth