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holmgangCore t1_jdylsf1 wrote

Reply to comment by gamerdude69 in Would building a Dyson sphere be worth it: We ran the numbers. by filosoful

So a serious CME could hit Earth in 20 hours. 1 AU in 20 hours. That’s ~4.6 million mph and literally billions of tons of charged particles.

Anton Petrov had a recent episode on the CME of March 13th with some video from the SDO that might give you some sense of scale & speed.

How close would these drones be to the Sun? 1/2 AU? 1/4 AU?

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