Back in 1859, earth got whacked with a huge solar storm. At the time, it disrupted telegraph communications but not a lot more than that. Today, a comparable event to the 1859 "Carrington Event" would be a major world-wide disaster, and insurers are now starting to contemplate what could and should be done to try to reduce the crippling damage that would result to our modern electronic infrastructure.
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