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NASA has debunked rumours about an "internet apocalypse" caused by solar storms, that could disrupt global connectivity for months. While a severe solar storm is unlikely, its potential economic impact in the US alone could be $11bn per day. Computer science professor Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, author of the paper Solar Superstorms: Planning for an Internet Apocalypse, has said that such events have not been experienced before, so the response of infrastructure to such events remains unkno...

Outages caused by solar storms could last for months, leading to huge economic impact

The internet has been teeming with warnings of a so-called 'internet apocalypse' triggered by an extremely strong solar storm, causing widespread worry among

The author of the study said she regrets using the phrase internet apocalypse and that it just got too much attention.

It sounds like the stuff of sci-fi.

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Is than other times. gregg: now severe solar superstorms, which are different, what would that do? >> right. so the sun is continuously disrupting the space around the earth, what they call space weather and ordinary space weather and a superstorm are the difference between a bad thunderstorm and a hurricane. ordinary space weather, just stuff that happens every year we dont pay any attention to, costs something between 500 million and a billion dollars a year in damage to power lines and satell...