Article #402
by Bill Nugent
The Carrington event of September 1859 was the largest and fiercest geomagnetic storm and coronal mass ejection in recorded history. From August 28th to September 2nd 1859 there was an extremely powerful storm on the surface of the sun, facing earth. On September 1st, a huge coronal mass ejection occurred and it raced towards earth and overwhelmed the magnetosphere that protects our planet.
Charged particles from the Sun ripped through the atmosphere and hit the telegraph grid which was the information highway of the time. Powerful pulses of electricity raced through the wires and caused Sparks and flames in various telegraph offices all over the United States, Europe, Asia and wherever there was telegraph service in those early days.
The geomagnetic storm was probably a category G5. For comparison think of a hurricane as a Category 5.hitting directly on a seaside village.
The reason why I bring up the subject of the Carrington Event is that if ever such an event were to occur today or even something nearly as strong, it would have devastating effects for our standard of living throughout all of the developed industrialized countries.
There have been severe geomatic storms and ejections since the Carrington event. Powerful storms have occurred in 1872 1921, 1938, 1941, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1972, 2003, 2012, and 2024.
The magnetic storm that occurred in July 2012 was almost as powerful as the Carrington event and it was facing earth. Thank God the coronal mass ejection narrowly missed our planet. If it had been a direct hit on earth it would have caused trillions of dollars in damage to our electric grid, knocked out thousands of satellites and destroyed our global positioning system.
It would have sent huge power surges through the electric grids of all nations, burning out circuits, transformers, computers, phone systems, electric generators and refrigeration equipment.. It would have taken years, perhaps decades to recover. This is how vulnerable we are to a strong geomagnetic storm and coronal mass ejection.
Modern Technology Stands in the Path of a Superstorm
Let’s take a look at the vulnerability of the high-tech empire of Elon musk (1971- ). A coronal mass ejection like the Carrington Event could wipe out the space based portions of Musk’s empire.
The crown jewel of Musk’s empire is the company called SpaceX which he founded over twenty years ago. It’s actually a conglomerate of companies.
SpaceX owns Starlink which is the satellite-based internet company founded by Musk. It promises to be 14 times faster than any ground based internet service. SpaceX also owns Xai which is Musk’s artificial intelligence company, with his Grok artificial intelligence technology.
SpaceX also owns Musk’s company called X, formally called Twitter, which Musk intends to turn into the “everything app.” Musk plans for X to be the financial hub of his empire which can facilitate trillions of dollars of peer to peer transactions and make banks obsolete.
Musk is deeply invested in artificial intelligence. You may have heard that artificial intelligence technology requires data centers in order to process the calculations. These data centers are being built all over the US and in most other industrialized countries all over the world.
They are built of huge numbers of semiconductor chips that require a huge amount of electricity that’s overwhelming the grids. They also require huge amounts of water to cool the data centers because all that energy and electricity running through them generates a colossal amount of heat.
AI Data Centers Orbiting in Space
Elon Musk has stepped forward with a very ambitious way of solving the electricity and water problems by eliminating the need for data centers on earth. Musk’s company, SpaceX, has launched more than 10,000 satellites that are currently in orbit over earth, in low earth orbit, about 340 miles up. The closeness to the Earth means that the satellites can transmit data very quickly to planet earth.
Musk is actually using the satellites as bases for huge numbers of data centers to do artificial intelligence in space. The semiconductors are in the satellites and there are solar panels that collect from energy from the Sun and change that into electrical energy eliminating the need for the earthbound electrical grid.
Also, since outer space is extremely cold, there is no need for water to cool these outer space data centers. Musk has 10,000 satellites up there now but he intends to to bring that number up to over a million satellites to do amazing things with artificial intelligence.
Other companies see what Musk is doing and are trying to do the same. Companies intending to do artificial intelligence in space include Amazon, Alphabet (Google), Meta (Facebook) and even the old veteran, IBM.
What I’ve described above is just part of Musk’s technological empire, which they are now starting to call the “musconomy.” Musk’s company, Tesla, is publicly traded and owns the robotic arm of Musk’s empire. You’ve no doubt heard about Musk’s Optimus humanoid robots who can walk, see, grasp and speak. They will be operated with artificial intelligence and will transform the labor force in an almost unimaginable way.
Musk is currently building super factories, that he calls gigafactories to build Optimus robots, batteries, rockets to launch his satellites and other products. Musk wants to build a million Optimus robots per year.
You’ve no doubt heard about Musk’s Project Colossus which is a huge supercomputer that was built in just 122 days in Memphis Tennessee. It’s the world’s largest artificial intelligence computerized development Center to build on musk’s artificial intelligence program called Grok.
A New City Being Built in Texas
You probably also heard about Musk’s new city that he’s building from the ground up in Texas. It’s called Starbase and it’s based at the mouth of the Rio Grande River on the gulf coast in the very southernmost part of Texas near the Mexican border. It’s a fully developed integrated City that’s being built now and being expanded upon. Thousands of people now live and work in Starbase.
Musk has been launching his satellites with the famous Falcon 9 rockets that are reusable and come back to earth and are embraced by huge mechanical tongs. It’s a rocket booster as tall as a 14-story building that sends a payload into orbit and then returns back through the atmosphere down to earth and is reusable. One such falcon 9 rocket has been used 27 times. To see a film of it returning to earth looks like science fiction but it’s real.
He’s currently building an even larger rocket booster called Starship V3 which can carry 200,000 pounds of payload into orbit and it’s fully reusable.
Musk intends to build a human occupied outpost on the surface of the Moon. Eventually he wants to build such an outpost on the surface of Mars making humanity a multiplanetary species.
Musk also wants to build his own semiconductors at his new TeraFab semiconductor plant in Texas so as not to continue relying on Nvidia and others to supply him with chips.
Musk launched his SpaceX conglomerate into the public stock markets in an Initial Public Offering in June 2026 at an overall valuation of nearly 2 trillion dollars in which he intended to raise 75 to 100 billion dollars personally in order to fuel the huge expansions of his empire described above.
This Elon Musk is a pretty ambitious and influential guy wouldn’t you say?
It’s ironic that musk has often loudly warned about the dangers of artificial intelligence being abused and bringing great calamity upon humanity. Artificial intelligence could be used by tyrants such as the coming Antichrist of Revelation chapter 13 to control people or destroy whole nations of people. Artificial intelligence combined with nuclear weapons would be a deadly combo to say the least.
Vulnerable to Natural Disasters
I cannot help but noticing how vulnerable Musk’s empire is to natural disasters. I mentioned the Carrington event at the start of this article, saying that such an event today would knock out most satellites in orbit. Musk’s million satellites in orbit could be wiped out within hours if a G5 geomagnetic storm launches a huge coronal mass ejection directly into earth.
Musk’s Project Colossus, which is based in Memphis Tennessee, is near the center of the New Madrid earthquake fault line system. An earthquake there, which some scientists believe is due soon, could devastate the Project Colossus supercomputer.
Even Musk’s new city, Starbase, is on the gulf coast of Texas. If that area were to be hit with a powerful hurricane, perhaps a Cat 5, Star base could be severely damaged.
Modern Day Tower of Babel
We all are familiar with the story of the Tower of Babel in the book of genesis. They were trying to build a tower to reach into heaven and make their names famous. “And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven” (Genesis 11:4)
God acted decisively against such over-ambitious, zealous extremism. I could see events in nature taking a turn to restrain the uncontrolled advance of artificial intelligence with all its potential for abuse and calamity. Natural disasters are often called “acts of God.”
The Carrington event or a New Madrid earthquake would not necessarily stop man’s advance into hyper-technology but perhaps would be a cautionary tale. Natural disasters could act as a speed bump to slow down the advance of the hyper-technology that humankind does not seem to know how to control.
Technology is good and it has advanced our standard of living so wonderfully over the centuries. Right now, however, technology is advancing at such hyper-speed that things could go out of control in a serious way very quickly. Time will tell what God will do. One thing is certain, God has the final word. God is in control, not man’s high technology.
The World Needs a Savior
The secular, evolutionist notion that we are descendants of apes and our end is oblivion rings so tragically hollow. Humans are created in the image of God.
The Bible is confirmed to be God’s word by the Bible’s many fulfilled prophecies and by the miracles that occur in answer to prayer. Secularism has no miracles and offers only despair.
Jesus Christ came in fulfillment of over 300 Old Testament prophecies. No other figure in all of world history can make this claim! The prophecies foretold that Jesus would die for our sins. This means that when He suffered and died, Christ took the penalty of our sins upon Himself.
“He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities . . . All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53:5-6, written 700 years before the birth of Christ).
Christianity is the Only Religion With A Savior
All manmade religions and occultic religions exhort people to build up self and try to perfect the human self. They try to make themselves good enough to get into heaven. Jesus taught us to deny self and follow Him. This is because Jesus died for our sins and took the penalty we deserved for our sins.
Other religions claim to point the way. In Christianity, Jesus Christ is the way. “I am the way” (John 14:6).
Jesus did the work of salvation. Jesus actually saves us, not just exhorts us to perfect ourselves. When we turn to Christ, He gives us the new birth in which our spirit within us is reborn and given eternal life.
Christ rose from the dead to offer forgiveness to all who call upon Him in repentance. I invite you to turn to Christ today to receive forgiveness of sins.
Steps to salvation:
Jesus said “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7).
Prayer to receive salvation:
“Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Romans 10:13).
To receive the salvation that Jesus purchased for us at the terrible cost of His suffering and death on our behalf I invite you to pray this simple prayer:
“Dear heavenly Father, I thank you for sending Jesus, the promised Messiah, to die for my sins. I admit that I am a sinner. I repent of my sins and I ask for your forgiveness on the basis of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I ask you to fill me with your Holy Spirit to empower me to serve you under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, Amen.”
If you prayed this prayer in the humble sincerity of your heart then you have received everlasting life, which includes power to live right in this life and entrance into heaven in the afterlife!