Planetary disasters: It could happen one night (2013)

[DrScump]

http://www.nature.com/news/planetary-disasters-it-could-happen-one-night-1.12174

[et1337]

I always wondered: would a direct hit from a coronal mass ejection wipe out all hard drives? It will be... interesting if we have to rewrite all software from scratch.

[m-p-3 → et1337]

I found a topic on how fast we could potentially bring back a functional OS from scratch but I unfortunately cannot find it back.. it was a good read :(

[nicolashahn → et1337]

This sounds like a decent plot for some sci-fi novel.

[awb]

We can probably add humans to this list too.

[ianai → awb]

They're taking about potential killers not ones in the act.

[NumberCruncher]

>> One estimate suggests that there is a 1% chance of a super-eruption in the next 460–7,200 years.

And there is a 99.9999% chance that I will not see it. So why should I care?

[unyttigfjelltol → NumberCruncher]

The article listed several risks. What would the number be for all risks combined?

[NumberCruncher → unyttigfjelltol]

Doomsday porn stays doomsday porn even if you combine it with itself.