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Description: Sign up to Morning Brew for free today bit.ly/mbbrewsolves Thanks to Morning Brew for sponsoring Did you know that powerful solar activity can be felt on Earth— but not in the way you might think. A solar superstorm can affect Earth by taking down power lines, electronics, and the internet, causing disruption to infrastructure that can take years to fix. Google, Facebook, and other tech giants would be at risk, and people would have to live and work without electricity and the internet until it could be restored. Could the sun take down civilization? It happened before? Let’s get into it! Sources: [2021 Texas Power Crisis] cnn.com/2021/02/17/us/texas-winter-storm-vignettes-trnd/index.html [Solar Activities: Solar Storms, Flares and CMEs] nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/spaceweather/index.html#q2 solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/activities/flare.html [History of Solar Activities that Impacted Earth] trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/77351480 [The Carrington Event] ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5215858 [1989 Blackouts] edn.com/solar-explosion-leads-to-blackout-march-10-1989 edn.com/solar-flare-impacts-microchips-august-16-1989 newscientist.com/article/mg12316812-400-solar-storms-halt-stock-market-as-computers-crash [Radiation] cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/radiation-exposure/radiofrequency-radiation.html [Undersea Cables for Internet Connection] submarinecablemap.com twitter.com/tylermorganwall/status/1440669533157556227 [Severed Submarine Cables Disrupting Internet] theguardian.com/business/2008/feb/01/internationalpersonalfinancebusiness.internet news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7218008.stm dunyahalleri.com/deniz-altindan-gecen-kablonun-kopmasi-2-gun-internetsiz-birakti theverge.com/2018/4/8/17207556/submarine-internet-cable-mauritania-broken [Uptime: How Companies Stay Online] atlassian.com/blog/statuspage/high-availability [What Solar Storms can do to the World: Internet Apocalypse?] gizmodo.com/when-will-there-be-a-new-solar-superstorm-1847616173 ics.uci.edu/~sabdujyo/papers/sigcomm21-cme.pdf ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/growing-risk-of-once-in-a-century-solar-superstorm-that-could-knock-out-internet-study-says-1.5579689 wired.com/story/solar-storm-internet-apocalypse-undersea-cables kdvr.com/news/rare-solar-storm-can-impact-electronics-gps-systems [Other Sources] youtu.be/eB8WHm-5FU0 youtu.be/LP3qzKGh1AM youtu.be/mvPH_gDMarw youtu.be/KTC1BCYW3fo archive.org/details/LightOfYourL_2 archive.org/details/Telegram1956 youtu.be/s93KC4AGKnY youtu.be/T4kBRC2co7Y youtu.be/8UuHjjPPJH4 youtu.be/IlAJJI-qG2k youtu.be/H9R4tznCNB0 youtu.be/ZGmk7wJ8Y08 youtu.be/WOXMTXKkyao youtu.be/PVgjyUrhTc8 youtu.be/Q6ctb-Pb3lc youtu.be/cSp1dM2Vj48 youtu.be/Aw3R-4UC4wI youtu.be/vfBZCXzTJi8 youtu.be/iZ6bamP8wZk [Brew’s intro song] Manhattan Twist by Avocado Junkie [Music Licensing] Code: 7LB58A6LKWK1UGRG, IHKEQFMAHBI8E3BZ, 8TV69BWFAJ5AG8RN, DPUAZSJRIBSHDU8U, WEJNPA0VSMSNVFBH, GI8DZLI7CK2ISD64, WUVYURC8TMMCIJYL, XBQHX105LBBVPGGE, 2MF6CHW4ICDI3QQ7, G4PEWIPKFHUS3J4F, U5W1SBNKRGWCIRWO, U9OSLX808JZ8N2RC, 6WDRXZW173ON4TER