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Interview With the Kansas City Star

2/16/2014

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Could a giant sunburst unplug Earth?

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BY RICK MONTGOMERY
The Kansas City Star
When the sun got ornery in 1859, American telegraph operators saw sparks fly.

A huge solar flare belched a cloud of charged particles into Earth’s path. But other than frying telegraph lines, the electromagnetic collision caused little stir in the world.

Nobody back then had yet switched on a decent light bulb, much less charged an iPhone.

Yet the sun hasn’t changed its ways, and that worries University of Kansas physicist Adrian Melott, among others. If the remnants of a similar solar flare struck the planet today?



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It's official. How I Became a Teenage Survivalist is an Accelerated Reader AR book.

2/8/2014

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It's official. How I Became a Teenage Survivalist is an Accelerated Reader AR book. It's worth 8 points! AR Quiz No. 163693.
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