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[QUOTE="stoomart, post: 5838778, member: 609490"] Reading about the monster X9.3 event on Sept. 6 got me onto the near hit of the massive [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_2012']CME in 2012[/URL]. As an IT professional, I'm curious about how much warning we would get if one of these Carrington events was headed straight for us, which apparently has a [URL='http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2011SW000734/full']12% chance of happening[/URL] between 2012-2022. Edit: Looks like [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory#Operation']DSCOVR[/URL] can provide a 15-60 minute early warning from the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point#/media/File:Lagrange_points2.svg']L[SUB]1[/SUB] Lagrangian point[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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