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		livatlantis on Nov 4, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: India’s Telescope Detects Crack in the Earth’s Mag... The article mentions that the study "...may hold clues for a better understanding of future superstorms that could cripple modern technological infrastructure on Earth,...". What kind of crippling of modern tech infrastructure are we talking about? Electrical interference? Radiation overdose that leads to... data loss? Could someone more familiar with the topic enlighten me?

noselasd on Nov 4, 2016 [–]

Stuff like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1989_geomagnetic_storm or worse - e.g. EM waves knocking out satellites - having the GPS system vanish would have quite severe impact.

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