If another Carrington Event occurred tomorrow, would you still be alive in a year?
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NOTE: This is not asking if you "want to be alive" in a year, but if you expect that you will be.

Wikipedia article for the Carrington Event

For the sake of the question, "another Carrington Event" is defined as a storm with a Dst of -1000 nT hitting the Earth.

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From what i've read, a geomagnetic storm like that would be worse than Covid 19, but not as bad as sea level rise. And i think i will survive both of those, so i clicked Yes.

How high is this sea level rise, and how sudden? Are you thinking of a biblical deluge?

I wouldn't have guessed that so many Manifold users were preppers and/or hunter-gatherers.

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