Doesn't even need to actually be a solar maximum. Just flip Obama's internet kill switch then tell the post office to pass out fliers that say it was the sun or Russia or whatever you want.
I was just thinking, a complete and total outage of the internet for several weeks would be the perfect time to stage a coup. who's coup? anyone's coup. anyone anywhere. a blackout on the world information system that everyone has come to rely on means that you can commit whatever atrocities you want and there won't be any backlash until it's too late.
Any wired communication would be affected by a solar flare except for fiber optics. Last major solar flare in 1859 started fires when the moose code machines started sparking.
Wonder if it will happen right around elections
Doesn't even need to actually be a solar maximum. Just flip Obama's internet kill switch then tell the post office to pass out fliers that say it was the sun or Russia or whatever you want.
I was just thinking, a complete and total outage of the internet for several weeks would be the perfect time to stage a coup. who's coup? anyone's coup. anyone anywhere. a blackout on the world information system that everyone has come to rely on means that you can commit whatever atrocities you want and there won't be any backlash until it's too late.
CNN: "This just in: Helios, ancient Greek sun God, hates Trump too."
If only there were some form of archaic wired communications infrastructure already in place that could withstand surface radiation...
RJ-11 stonks are going up!
Any wired communication would be affected by a solar flare except for fiber optics. Last major solar flare in 1859 started fires when the moose code machines started sparking.