A new government forecast about the possibility of a coming solar
storm warns that it could eliminate
– at least temporarily across large swaths of the world – power grids,
air travel and communications, including those operating financial
services and emergency systems, as well as GPS functions and even cell
phones.
"The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few
years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity," said
Richard Fisher, head of NASA's Heliophysics Division, in the report
released just days ago.
"At the same time, our technological society has developed an
unprecedented sensitivity to solar storms," he said. Read More>>>>>>>>
