I’ve been hearing a lot about a NASA Internet apocalypse caused by solar flares on TikTok what’s the real story though, and should I be worried?

[Talkativetech]

A lot of people are talking about this on TikTok, and I wanted a different perspective to be shared to me maybe they are right but people are saying it’s coming in 2023 or in a few years or a decade. 
 

i’m just not seeing any consistencies, and want a straight answer, and not have 20 different answers, 

[Arika]

sounds like a bunch of people either being disingenuous for clicks, or people just seeing "Nasa recorded a large solar flare" and automatically assume "the full power of it will hit earth and break everything".

 

if NASA or any other space agency or observatory haven't issued an official statement or warning about it, then you can safely ignore tiktok...which i would normally recommend anyway.

 

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A large solar flare, at 03:59 GMT on Monday, triggered a coronal mass ejection (CME) travelling at 1400 km/s that reached the Earth in the afternoon of 24 January. The impact of the CME caused a minor geomagnetic storm, but no effects on ground infrastructure such as power grids or phone networks were detected. The main impact of this storm was to trigger spectacular auroral displays at high latitudes.

so looking into it, one literally just hit us....and we're on the internet

[emothxughts]

1 hour ago, Talkativetech said:

A lot of people are talking about this on TikTok

...aaand dismissed. It's the 2020s version of getting "news" of impending apocalypse (and divine salvation from said impending doom) from chain letters in email in the 2000s.

[Rocketdog2112]

If you get your news and information from Tic Toc, you might as well bury your head in the sand. 

[NadiaMayer]

Nah people been saying this since Y2k.

when things hit the fan you see it don't worry.

 

[GeoStellar]

Solar flares happen all the time.

 

Most are small, some are not as small.  Some times they do interfere with interstellar communication. Most of the time they don't.  Someday, One will hit that is big enough to actually cause real problems that you may notice. Unless you are NASA or the ESA or any other company that has loads of satellites orbiting the earth, there is no point in worrying about it.  Go outside, touch some grass, live your life.