Sunday, March 29, 2009

Potential Damage from a Solar Storm

One more thing to worry about: if a solar storm as powerful as the one recorded in 1859 were to occur today, it could devastate modern civilization by destroying the electrical grids in developed countries.

Update: I really should have given a hat tip to the blog where I first came across this, but...after a thirty-minute search I can't figure out what it was. My bad, my apologies.

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