[sand88]

Do you understand how quickly the effect of an EMP falls away with distance? And the amount of distance we are talking about?

Agreed. I think it's much to do about nothing.

We have a greater chance of a Carrington Event occurring.

[CodeToad]

“We have a greater chance of a Carrington Event occurring.
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That one could keep a fella up at night! We’ve had two CME in the past several years that could have wiped out the Earth and they were not that far from our orbit.