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how long? until next sufficiently large solar flare, after climate change strains all infrastructure enough. not like we have that long left
There are so many way to adequately protect digital information from solar flares. That would be the least of our problems, the actually dangerous part of geomagnetic storms is the severe power outages and the severance of the electrical grid.