Many homesteaders have heard of the Carrington Event of 1859. This massive solar storm struck the very early wired telegraph grid, and was so intense that in some places, telegraph operators reported they could send messages even with their ...
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NASA Scientist: Doomsday Event (That Could Kill 200 Million) Is Far More Likely Than We Thought
A solar flare does not have to possess an intensity as significant as the Carrington Event of 1859 in order to take down the entire US power grid, according to NASA scientist Lika Guhathakurta. The astrophysicist and heliophysics expert broke ...
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“The eastern sky appeared of a blood red color,” wrote a resident of South Carolina’s Sullivan Island. “The sea reflected the phenomenon, and no one could look at it without thinking of the passage in the Bible which says, ‘the ...
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