A factual comparison of the recent solar storm to the Carrington event
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A solar storm like the Carrington Event could knock out the Internet
https://www.astronomy.com/science/a-large-solar-storm-could-knock-out-the-internet-and-power-grid-an-electrical-engineer-explains-how/
A geomagnetic storm on the scale of the Carrington Event could potentially knock out the backbone of the Internet.
Spoiler - though they were both G5 storms, they weren’t really that comparable.
Also, big as the Carrington Event was, it’s likely it was absolutely dwarfed by one about a millennium ago, the Miyake Event