A Massive Solar Flare Destroyed The Earth in 1816.....no one noticed.

 Everyyear a new conspiracy theory that is not that new. Remember when You Tube and Blogs with their theories when in 2018 "the mysterious 11-day closure of Sunspot Solar Observatory in New Mexico" had them defecating their brains -"a massive alien space craft/fleet was filmed warping near the Sun!" and gigantic space craft were emerging from wormholes that used the Sun. Oh, and, of course, "the word is that an extinction level event solar flare is heading towards us!"

You can read the real, down to Earth factual reason what went on here:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-mexico-observatory/new-mexico-observatory-closure-stemmed-from-fbi-child-porn-probe-documents-idUSKCN1M001P

In the good old days the conspiracy theorists creating panic based on nothing would havbe been arrested. Don't believe me?  Here's an item from the Liverpool Mercury of  Friday 5th April 1816:  

Astronomers. Can't live with 'em and cannot, apparently, live without them!