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@ mleku
2025-04-29 09:49:28
yeah, in a few hours i'm sure that Ben is going to talk extensively about the space weather that was involved in the incident and why it affected the area that it affected
it was not hot weather
it was not hackers
it was not shitty windmills and solar panels
it was a burst of electrons that came down from a blast of solar wind that pushed the van allen belt electrons into the lower atmosphere and was conducted into the grid wires
the sheer scale of it should make it obvious, it crossed through three countries and and was indiscriminate, just like you'd expect if suddenly your power grid got charged up by a massive jolt of energy