Could a Solar Flare Disrupt the Transhumanist Movement?

In 2012, Wired declared there to be a 1 in 8 chance of a catastrophic solar megastorm by 2020. We dodged that bullet, but the threat hasn’t gone away. So long as we orbit a sun, it won’t ever go away.

A large solar flare would be devastating to our modern way of life. According to Wired, such an event “could potentially cause trillions of dollars’ worth of damage and…