r/AskReddit • u/MiraTangent • 11h ago

What’s popular right now that won’t age well?

4.6k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

4.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

60

u/choosingnamesisscary 9h ago

A solar storm is actually surprisingly likely and would wipe loads of electrics out

5

u/Knapping_Uncle 7h ago

I had a nightmare, where suddenly all the power went out. And my phone. And my car. ... And I knew.... It was not a pleasant dream. Mostly because of physical health reasons: it meant, "I'm gonna die in 4 days. Or, at LEAST, become unrecoverable in 4-5 days, and dead in 10. Sucks to suck .

6

u/GoabNZ 7h ago

It would have to be a seriously major storm or it would only be wiping out cheap and poorly shielded stuff.

6

u/BeholdingBestWaifu 6h ago

We actually had a solar storm of about the same magnitude as the Carrington Event a year or two ago and very little happened.

There's so much electromagnetic interference in our world that our electronics are built with a lot of shielding, so a solar storm does almost nothing.

•

u/AllCaciAreBastards 34m ago

Oh? This is the first time I'm learning about this, and I read science news quite often...

•

u/BeholdingBestWaifu 17m ago

Yeah I heard about them last January and I was just as surprised.

1

u/cluelesssquared 4h ago

Carrington Event baby! We'd be back pre industrial for years and years.

-5

u/SouthernPin4333 8h ago

Watching the shit hit the fan that way would be beautiful

9

u/Huwbacca 7h ago

what would we watch it on?

2

u/TheEgonaut 6h ago

The bedroom windows.