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The Boiling Frog
Ike: Our tendency is to think that things will be steady or have stasis, or be normal all the time. He says we can't predict very easily when solar flares will occur. In 18 59, there was hardly any electrical inferastructure for the stuff to zap, fires and telegraph offices, trouble, bad. But compare that with turning off all the electricity all over the world, all at once.