He is NOT an astrophysicist.
studied meteorology in college before receiving a B.A. in economics and then a law degree in 2011.
Oh. I was not aware that. Still, he has a strong argument and abrasive attitude. I'm not 100% bought into it, but the strong argument remains.
An interesting composite argument I read somewhere was a combination of the flares + a massive hacking with the premise that nefarious groups/countries had collaborated to launch a massive cyberstructure attack dry run at the onset of the next X class solar flare as cover for their massive attack (x-ray flare effects can last up to 12 hours). Some outages (i.e. Starlink, like when another flare knocked out a large number of them a couple of years ago) were satellite based (couldn't be hacked) and knocked out as a result of the flares, most other outages were hacked and on a scale never seen before.
It's my opinion that they are trying to build "fear" and "awareness" for the upcoming (((cyber pandemic))). Did you read about the FBI investigating the AT&T outage? Seems kind of weird considering AT&T ensures everyone that it wasn't the flares and it wasn't a cyber attack. Just a simple technical issue. Why would the FBI, or more rather, why are there articles pushing the idea that the FBI is investigating the outage? Something is fishy about all of it. And not to mention gaylon's cryptic "this is a test" tweet that he disabled comments on.
There is a lot weird about this outage and the explanations offered. Like most everything else these days.
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