I’m saying there is no current plan to disconnect the grids given a certain condition.

You are correct. We don’t have such a system in place, hence there aren’t any false alarms.

devices will be fine. Unplugged or adequate surge protection is enough.

One thing the article doesn’t really address is the grid scale transformers. We can’t make them but more than a small fraction per year of the current installed number.

Assuming it’s not plugged in or is adequately surge protected, electronic devices are fine for a CMP/Solar Flare event.

I’m trying to decide how the rampant conspiracy theory, everybody having guns shooting and the lack of info stemming from that type of event...would be distinguishable from today having instant access to information.

Perhaps, he wouldn’t remember either way ;-)

Agreed, and certainly as host behavior changes, the definition of ‘optimal’ changes as well.

It’s just an overused contrarian argument.

And tomorrow he’d be extolling the civil war airports for their fine people on both sides

Phrased another way, virus’ evolve to be come optimally lethal.   Mild enough to allow spread before host death.

Why nuke the town? I’m just establishing your acceptable ranges. *You* clearly implied the grandma was an acceptable loss.

So clearly we needed to nuke the town. I mean it would stop the armed and dangerous person with relatively minimal collateral damage.

“Remove gas tax and instead institute a per-mile tax adjusted for weight *and efficiency* of the vehicle.”

Welcome children! Come closer and listen. Today’s word is “Liability”.

I mean, look at the size of this mine!  that’s just one canary, really unimportant in the grand scheme

Said everyone in Texas...after [insert multitude of problems Texas has] happened

The problem was clearly illustrated where a dealer sold a used Tesla with ‘extra’ features that Tesla then *turned* off.

It is not a structural composite issue!

The alien voicemail box is out for repairs so...