If you know anything about how electronics work, or have done any kind of homework or reading about it.

Its entirely possible. We have lived in a relatively stable time, and we take that for granted. Considering the origin of our species is unknown, and the landscape changes so dramatically time to time, I think its safe to say, we have seen nothing yet.

The interesting part about how this works. If I remember right, it weakens the earths magnetic field which causes it to shrink. So theoretically, a big enough one could shrink the field down to where the power lines are.

What happens when you rotate a piece of copper in a magnetic field?

This is the basis of how motors and generators work. Anyway, causes the wires to induce a current and it will burn up everything that is connected to it, this includes the copper running through the cable line which powers most of the internet right now. Local infastructure powered by fiber op would be fine, so would the undersea cables connecting continents, but everything on the power lines would be fucked. Im sure the military has systems built in place for this.

The problem being when we built a vast majority of this shit a 150 years ago we when we had no idea of the possibilities, but blackouts have occurred before, but they are usually localized, because they are small.

https://www.vox.com/science/2024/1/31/24047913/solar-maximum-cycle-explained-25-flares-coronal-mass-ejection

The possibility of a direct hit by a powerful solar storm is rare. But it can happen. In 1859, a storm called the “Carrington Event” occurred near the peak of the solar cycle, and sent currents surging through nascent telegraph lines, sparking fires and stymieing messages, according to NASA. Auroras could be seen as far south as Mexico City. If a similar event happened today, risk analysts at Lloyds of London estimate, it could cost trillions.

During the last period of high solar activity in 2012, scientists spotted a couple of coronal mass ejections that crossed the Earth’s orbit. Luckily, our planet was not in the crosshairs. But “had those bursts hit the Earth’s magnetic field,” Brad Plumer wrote on Vox in 2014, “they could have induced strong ground currents capable of overloading our electric grids and knocking out transformers, leaving entire regions without power.”

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/11/15/declassified-report-shows-solar-flares-set-off-land-mines/

Many of the destructor mines were designed to trigger if they sensed changes in magnetic fields associated with moving ships. Solar activity is known to perturb Earth’s magnetic field, and in early August 1972, the perturbations were likely strong enough to meet the magnetic requirements for detonation, Knipp said.

2000 years in sun time is like a blink of an eye to us humans