Timeline for On an Earth regularly ravaged by solar storms as strong as as the Carrington Event, how would technology advance?
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| Oct 5, 2018 at 21:10 | vote | accept | TomatoCo | ||
| Oct 1, 2018 at 22:59 | answer | added | user55812 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 6:33 | answer | added | Elmy | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 6:09 | comment | added | Shadowzee | Wouldn't they eventually just add a bunch of shielding or start using underground cables rather than hanging them off poles? Sure its expensive, but I think it would be much better to do it this way rather than have everything just hanging in the air. | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 2:07 | comment | added | a4android | The commenters who think this civilization will be stuck in the steam age are wrong. The Carrington Event generated electrical currents in long wires & telegraphic wires (this made them self-powered by the CE). Electrical technology will be given a leg up. Electronics only comes long last century. Regular CEs are effectively intermittent solar power. There will be a scientific & engineering gold rush into researching electricity & its applications. | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 1:37 | history | edited | TomatoCo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 27, 2018 at 1:37 | comment | added | RonJohn | I've got to reemphasize, though, that it's a great idea for keeping civilization at a steampunk level. | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 1:34 | history | edited | TomatoCo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 27, 2018 at 1:32 | comment | added | TomatoCo | Ah, now I understand. Thank you for clarifying. | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 1:30 | comment | added | RonJohn | The problem is that this is alternative history speculation. We know where it can't go, but where it can go is speculation, and that's off-topic. | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 1:25 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 27, 2018 at 1:20 | history | edited | TomatoCo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 27, 2018 at 1:20 | comment | added | TomatoCo | @RonJohn I'd accept an answer that says that technology progresses regardless due to xyz, or that technology overall stagnates at year 18XX with exceptions A, B, and C from year 19XX. Or something like that. I agree it might be a little broad, but "way too broad" seems like an overstatement. Regardless, I've narrowed the question(s) a bit. | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 1:11 | answer | added | Khail | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 1:06 | comment | added | RonJohn | Unfortunately, your question is way too broad, and doesn't have any real, acceptable answers. worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/help | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 1:04 | comment | added | RonJohn | It seems like the world would be "stuck in steampunk", knowing of electricity but not being able to implement electrically based stuff (like the telegraph) because of the frequent large CMEs. It's a clever idea for keeping technology at that level. | |
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| Sep 27, 2018 at 0:59 | history | asked | TomatoCo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |