This is the solar storm to worry about. It could take down civilization.

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Did you know that powerful solar activity can be felt on Earth— but not in the way you might think. A solar superstorm can affect Earth by taking down power lines, electronics, and the internet, causing disruption to infrastructure that can take years to fix. Google, Facebook, and other tech giants would be at risk, and people would have to live and work without electricity and the internet until it could be restored. Could the sun take down civilization? It happened before? Let’s get into it!

Sources:
[2021 Texas Power Crisis]
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/us/texas-winter-storm-vignettes-trnd/index.html

[Solar Activities: Solar Storms, Flares and CMEs]
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/spaceweather/index.html#q2
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/activities/flare.html

[History of Solar Activities that Impacted Earth]
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/77351480

[The Carrington Event]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5215858/

[1989 Blackouts]
https://www.edn.com/solar-explosion-leads-to-blackout-march-10-1989/
https://www.edn.com/solar-flare-impacts-microchips-august-16-1989/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12316812-400-solar-storms-halt-stock-market-as-computers-crash/

[Radiation]
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/radiation-exposure/radiofrequency-radiation.html

[Undersea Cables for Internet Connection]
https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
https://twitter.com/tylermorganwall/status/1440669533157556227

[Severed Submarine Cables Disrupting Internet]
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/feb/01/internationalpersonalfinancebusiness.internet
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7218008.stm
https://www.dunyahalleri.com/deniz-altindan-gecen-kablonun-kopmasi-2-gun-internetsiz-birakti/
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/8/17207556/submarine-internet-cable-mauritania-broken

[Uptime: How Companies Stay Online]
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/statuspage/high-availability

[What Solar Storms can do to the World: Internet Apocalypse?]
https://gizmodo.com/when-will-there-be-a-new-solar-superstorm-1847616173
https://www.ics.uci.edu/~sabdujyo/papers/sigcomm21-cme.pdf
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/growing-risk-of-once-in-a-century-solar-superstorm-that-could-knock-out-internet-study-says-1.5579689
https://www.wired.com/story/solar-storm-internet-apocalypse-undersea-cables/
https://kdvr.com/news/rare-solar-storm-can-impact-electronics-gps-systems/

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https://youtu.be/eB8WHm-5FU0
https://youtu.be/LP3qzKGh1AM
https://youtu.be/mvPH_gDMarw
https://youtu.be/KTC1BCYW3fo
https://archive.org/details/LightOfYourL_2
https://archive.org/details/Telegram1956
https://youtu.be/s93KC4AGKnY
https://youtu.be/T4kBRC2co7Y
https://youtu.be/8UuHjjPPJH4
https://youtu.be/IlAJJI-qG2k
https://youtu.be/H9R4tznCNB0
https://youtu.be/ZGmk7wJ8Y08
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