NASA could only give a 30-minute warning before a killer solar storm hits Earth

Killing solar storms can knock out the internet and power for hours — and you’d only have 30 minutes to prepare, according to a NASA study.

The US space agency has developed a new artificial, intelligently powered system to predict when destructive events will hit Earth.

While the system is the most advanced alert, 30 minutes may not be enough time for the world to prepare for complete darkness.

However, people can now take steps to prepare for an extreme solar event, such as making a survival kit and having digital documents printed.

NASA announced development of its computer model called DAGGER (formally Deep Learning Geomagnetic Perturbation) in March, but the research is now gaining public attention.

An international team of researchers from the Frontier Development Lab – a public-private partnership with NASA, the US Geological Survey and the US Department of Energy – has used AI to find links between the solar wind and geomagnetic disturbances or disturbances that wreak havoc on our technology.

The researchers applied an AI method called “deep learning,” which trains computers to recognize patterns based on past examples.

And the team used the technology to identify relationships between solar wind measurements from heliophysics missions.

These missions are space probes carefully placed throughout space to create a wide array of sensors, working together to study the sun.

The team tested DAGGER against two geomagnetic storms in August 2011 and March 2015.

In any case, the system was able to quickly and accurately predict the consequences of the storm worldwide.

Lead author Vishal Upendran of the Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics in India, said in a rack: ‘With this AI it is now possible to make fast and accurate global forecasts and make decisions in the event of a solar storm, minimizing or even preventing the devastation of modern society.’

Solar storms can also make global positioning systems less accurate, which is a particular problem for precision drilling and other technologies. There may also be GPS errors.

The storm could also cause communication problems and add radiation around the north and south poles, likely forcing airlines to divert flights. Some have already done so.

In 1859, a massive geomagnetic superstorm known as the Carrington event sent powerful coronal mass ejections toward Earth, disrupting communications on the ground.

If such an event happened in today’s world, the consequences would be catastrophic.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has shared ways to prepare for an extreme solar storm.

The agency suggests filling plastic containers with water and placing them in the freezer, which can then be used to keep refrigerated foods cold in the event of a power outage.

The public must keep their car’s tank at least half full because gas stations rely on electricity to power their pumps.

And if you have a garage, find the manual release button.

NOAA is also urging people to back up important digital data and information and to keep money somewhere in the house because banks will be unavailable due to power outages.