Nasa is currently undertaking a mission to analyse solar winds which could help head off the impact of a solar storm disrupting the world’s internet stokel checks whether you should batten down the hatches and download enough Netflix to keep you going
He points out that prior natural events have had an impact on communications systems of the time throughout history. The, which was a geomagnetic storm sparking wildfires, wiped out large parts of the world’s telegraph system.
Solar flares and coronal mass ejections spit out electromagnetic energy, some of which can hit the Earth. This happens regularly, and can temporarily affect the signal of satellite TV channels, including Freeview. It also found that “a powerful solar superstorm has the potential to cause massive disruption of the internet,” and that astrophysicists forecast that the likelihood of a solar storm of sufficient capacity to do that happening in the next decade sitting somewhere between 1.6 and 12 per cent.found that if an incident on the scale of the Carrington Event hit Earth currently, it could cost up to $2.
And even if the storm did happen, there’s no guarantee that it would hit Earth. Plus, that assumes we take no mitigating action to prevent damage from such a storm.For those reasons and more, others are more sceptical about the potential risks involved. “There’s definitely a theoretical risk to the internet from solar storms, but there’s a theoretical risk to almost everything from things that the sun does,” said James Ball, author ofThat’s in theory.
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