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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