NASA's Solar Dynamics Laboratory has, over nine years, developed an AI program called the Surya Heliophysics Foundational Model. This project accumulates solar data and incorporates it into an AI system enabling the prediction of solar activity that could negatively effect power grids, communication systems and satellites.
Let's say NASA's AI model does predict solar behavior that could scramble sophisticated and critical power and communication activity. Then what? If solar activity or predicted solar conditions can compromise sophisticated items on earth someone or something will need to recognize it and shut down the terrestrial apparatus and disconnect it from it's solar and earthbound segments before they can be damaged. Is it really in our best interest to be dependent on such a circumstance?
Aren't earthquakes and their effects on infrastructure bad enough? California building codes seem to indicate that, as well as a relatively short geologic history of the Golden State. The fact that significant earthquakes occur in the same general locations doesn't mean science should ignore potential damage from solar activity. Instead, as in the case of building codes, equipment should be built in such a way that events outside the earth's atmosphere can't damage that equipment.
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