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Originally Posted by Blueblaze
Well, let's pray we miss the civilization-ending blast of EMP from a giant solar flare again this time, like we did a couple of weeks ago, just after the sunspot moved out of range.
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Here is a graph over the past decades of similar events showing how often this has happened in recent history.
The CME (Coronal Mass Ejection), the actual particles, that interact with the magnetosphere and cause ground currents, are the main culprit.
The flares are bursts of visable light, x-ray, gamma, and UV radiation.
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