1 in 10 Chance of an "Internet Apocalypse" Before 2031
Scientists at the University of California at Irvine predict that if a rare solar superstorm comes to pass, it could cause a months-long outage for key parts of the Internet. Particularly vulnerable are undersea cables - approximately 1.3 million miles' worth, on which intercontinental Internet depends. Solar storms are not new, but obviously disrupting the Earth's magnetic field didn't matter much in the 18th century. In...
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