eli5 If solar flares basically EMP electrical infrastructure, why can’t we turn it off before it hits?

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Like how you can fry your electronics if they’re plugged in when the power comes back on from an outage, why can’t we “unplug” everything so to speak?

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Fun fact: every wire is also an antenna. Radio waves stimulate a slight electrical current in an antenna. An EMP is basically a giant radio pulse from hell, which sends a huge surge through anything with wires.

A switch would do fuck all, unfortunately.

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