Solar Flare: What If Biggest Known Sun Storm Hit Today?

Interesting history courtesy of NatGeo.

In fact, the biggest solar storm on record—the 1859 blast—happened during a solar maximum about the same size as the one we're entering, according to NASA.

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In addition, the geomagnetic disturbances were strong enough that U.S. telegraph operators reported sparks leaping from their equipment—some bad enough to set fires, said Ed Cliver, a space physicist at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Bedford, Massachusetts.

Can you imagine? *laughs*

Maybe the Myan calendar is right.