Turns out the sun is actually just one big lithium battery fire.
eventually, after the sun has fused all its hydrogen into helium, and also fused all that helium, it will move on to fusing lithium and then it will truly be a gigantic lithium battery fire.
Sun-god, you have my full allegiance. Release your wrath upon the man's hubris.
“It’s a quite common situation in terms of geomagnetic activity”
I wish there was more details on this. Did they really launch satellites that weren't designed to handle normal space weather? Or was the geomagnetic storm unusually strong?
Sun:
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Gives free energy to Earth.
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Fries some rich assholes vanity project.
:gigachad:
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For whatever reason, I think this would be on a ruined newspaper next to some big font political gossip, in the environment of a survival horror sci-fi film. The newspaper would be crumpled up as the protagonists move through the ruins of some city. The satellites would of course be storing some Umbrella Corp weaponized turbo virus they were testing for the DoD. It would be released into the atmosphere, thus the catalyst for the world of the film.