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A solar storm the size of the Carrington Event could knock out the backbone of the Internet
On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving electrical shocks, telegraph paper catching fire, and being ...
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157 years ago, a massive solar storm rocked our planet and we barely noticed. Today, it would be catastrophic
In 1859, an invisible wave crashed into the Earth. Electrons, swept up like so much detritus in the magnetic current, coursed along telegraph wires. When they met an obstacle, like the hand of a ...