My interest in this began as an idea where we could transmit a radio signal that might be used to self-detonate munitions and thus put an end to conflicts so down the Carrington Event rabbit hole I looked.
You probably heard about the Carrington Event, read about it, or watched a youtube video, so you probably are aware that on a 1st-2nd September peak in the solar cycle, a lot of electrical systems around the technology using world absorbed electromagnetic radiation from a solar flare sufficient to cause electrical fires across telegraph systems world wide.
These events were tied to solar flares identified as sunspots by Richard Carrington and also Richard Hodgson. Given the onesidedness of who it got named after, I'm surprised it wasn't called a 2R (2-Richard) Event.
What you probably dont know is what happened elsewhere in that same September. I found this little bit of information in an old newspaper:
"...terrible explosion in September, 1859, when seventeen persons lost their lives at a percussion-cap factory."
"[Kynoch Works (a Percussion-cap manufacturers) experienced] a Catastrophic explosion at the company on September 27th, killing 19 of its 70 employees including children, gravely injuring many others, devastating the factory and damaging the surrounding area."
Kynoch Works were a munitions manufacturer in Birmingham.
The prospect of the vast stockpile of fragile ammunition, and explosive compounds and propellants in bullets, grenades, bombs, rockets, missiles, and even some nukes which fire a bullet into a plutonium core to trigger criticality self-detonating in another Carrington Event becomes a problem. From Military Armories, fragile fertilizer stockpiles, even that random American citizen with his doomsday scenario stockpile of weapons, bullets and bombs could wind up leaving a crater in a suburb.
On the upside, it means that an Alien Fleet will probably trigger a geostorm to take out all your weapons before landing troops. Finally a Sci-fi reality check.
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