Dozens of Space X satellites have been destroyed by a solar storm. Now you can see what I mean in the section about solar storms in the posting on this blog, "The End Of The World As We Know It", last updated December 2021.
Does anyone remember that, during America's war in Vietnam, Haiphong harbor was mined by dropping mines into it from the air? The mines were set to be detonated by the change in magnetic field caused by a passing ship. But a solar storm came along and caused the mines to detonate, on August 4, 1972.
These were minor solar storms. Every once in a while a really major one comes along, like the one in 1859 that I described in "The End Of The World As We Know It", that could potentially shut down all electronics on earth.
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