A Solar flare could wipe out eveidence of our advancements

[Just AnotherPerson]

I was thinking about how we dont use film anymore to take pictures, we dont use paper to write. Most everythign is done digitally now. People have a whole life worth of pics on their phone, and computer. People have writings on their computers. If we ever get a good solar flare that wipes out our grid and kills our electronics, it will all be wiped in an instant. Whole lifetimes of photos gone. Entire volumes of writing gone.

In the distant future people will think that we were in the dark ages a generation without art, without writing. An unadvanced society.

Then a million years from now when we are long gone and we are just one of the layers beneath the soil. If someone excavates all they will find is a layer of plastics and toxins.

We are leaving one hell of a legacy on this planet.

[Peter1469]

I was thinking about how we dont use film anymore to take pictures, we dont use paper to write. Most everythign is done digitally now. People have a whole life worth of pics on their phone, and computer. People have writings on their computers. If we ever get a good solar flare that wipes out our grid and kills our electronics, it will all be wiped in an instant. Whole lifetimes of photos gone. Entire volumes of writing gone.

In the distant future people will think that we were in the dark ages a generation without art, without writing. An unadvanced society.

Then a million years from now when we are long gone and we are just one of the layers beneath the soil. If someone excavates all they will find is a layer of plastics and toxins.

We are leaving one hell of a legacy on this planet.

Get an external hard drive and regularly back up your photos, etc. Keep the hard drive in a Faraday cage.

[Max Rockatansky]

I was thinking about how we dont use film anymore to take pictures, we dont use paper to write. Most everythign is done digitally now. People have a whole life worth of pics on their phone, and computer. People have writings on their computers. If we ever get a good solar flare that wipes out our grid and kills our electronics, it will all be wiped in an instant. Whole lifetimes of photos gone. Entire volumes of writing gone.

In the distant future people will think that we were in the dark ages a generation without art, without writing. An unadvanced society.

Then a million years from now when we are long gone and we are just one of the layers beneath the soil. If someone excavates all they will find is a layer of plastics and toxins.

We are leaving one hell of a legacy on this planet.

Who's to say it hasn't happened before? Look how far we've come in only 6000 years, especially the last thousand. Homo Sapiens have been around for over 200,000 years and modern thinking Homo Sapiens over 30,000 years. 20,000 years ago there could have been an advanced society with a "disposable" and virtual culture that completely disappeared with a supervolcano, impact event, plague or solar event that pushed them back into the stone age.

If our current civilization collapsed, billions will die of starvation within a year or two. Billions more would die in the competition for dwindling resources. It'd be Biblical.

[Captdon]

I was thinking about how we dont use film anymore to take pictures, we dont use paper to write. Most everythign is done digitally now. People have a whole life worth of pics on their phone, and computer. People have writings on their computers. If we ever get a good solar flare that wipes out our grid and kills our electronics, it will all be wiped in an instant. Whole lifetimes of photos gone. Entire volumes of writing gone.

In the distant future people will think that we were in the dark ages a generation without art, without writing. An unadvanced society.

Then a million years from now when we are long gone and we are just one of the layers beneath the soil. If someone excavates all they will find is a layer of plastics and toxins.

We are leaving one hell of a legacy on this planet.

Good God, you worried about what aliens will think of us. You ought to worry about what people here think of you.

[zachroidott]

Library of Alexandria on a vaster scale.

[Helena]

Good God, you worried about what aliens will think of us. You ought to worry about what people here think of you.

Why?

[Just AnotherPerson]

Get an external hard drive and regularly back up your photos, etc. Keep the hard drive in a Faraday cage.

But the rest of the grid would be down world wide. Perhaps if you have solar panels and they didn't get fried by the solar flare then perhaps you could power it up...….. Kinda iffy...…..

[Just AnotherPerson]

Who's to say it hasn't happened before? Look how far we've come in only 6000 years, especially the last thousand. Homo Sapiens have been around for over 200,000 years and modern thinking Homo Sapiens over 30,000 years. 20,000 years ago there could have been an advanced society with a "disposable" and virtual culture that completely disappeared with a supervolcano, impact event, plague or solar event that pushed them back into the stone age.

If our current civilization collapsed, billions will die of starvation within a year or two. Billions more would die in the competition for dwindling resources. It'd be Biblical.

I cant be 100% sure, but I am leaning towards that is has happened before check this out.... I am having trouble with the link, because it wont show you the whole playlist by just linking the vid so I will give it not in the link form. If you are interested, you can copy and paste it and do the search it is very interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExzeKeJQ_lI&list=PLJk0yT4erxuRE86FDwojIenP k4Ykc2NMy

[Captdon]

Why?

Kook. Everything she writes about is kooky. This is a forum. Remember that.

[Helena]

Good God, you worried about what aliens will think of us. You ought to worry about what people here think of you.

Why?

... This is a forum. Remember that.

Right, so why should she be worried about what people here think of her?