[Robert DeLong]

It’s been almost 20 years since we’ve seen a geomagnetic storm as strong as the one heading our way this weekend. Power operators and other groups that maintain critical infrastructure are preparing for what might happen when the coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, hit Earth. But is there anything you should be doing?

What negative effects did they bring. Ummm, nothing that I remember hearing about. Does anyone know any different, of some adverse effect from almost 20 years ago in 2004/5?

Everything now is an opportunity to generate fear porn into society.

[OldMissileer]

Everything now is an opportunity to generate fear porn into society.

The current generations of adults, who ignorantly blame everything bad in their lives on the "Boomers," have made hyperbole the norm. Nearly every headline I see on the Internet has been so full of extreme hyperbole that most news sites are a joke.

They have also extended this into everyday things, like "bomb cyclones" and naming snow storms, as if they are the worst things to have ever happened in the history of the Earth. Everything is now the greatest, the worst, or some crisis in general.