"That in the space between the stars and planets there is just the endless void.
It’s the most “nothing” that there ever will be yet at the same time we can traverse this sea of infinity. I know it’s common knowledge but blows my mind every time i think about how much there is of nothing at all"
NoCalorieWater
A Coronal Mass Ejection the size of the Carrington Event would completely destroy the electrical grid. It could take as long as ten years to replace damaged power transformers and restore electric service. Big cities can't survive ten days without electricity.
Sit back and enjoy the show, because there's not a darn thing you can do about it.
That is the biggest and best example of how society at large is ignoring a very real and very imminent threat while spazzing out about all sorts of less important things. For chrissakes, our electrical grids getting wrecked by a giant sun-fart is certain to happen eventually and practically nobody even knows about it!