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Old 24-06-2011, 11:02 PM
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Originally Posted by gary View Post
Indeed there is, the most famous probably being the March 13th 1989 event with
Hydro-Quebec Power. The solar storm brought down a sizable part of the Quebec
grid and chaos ensued.

A good reason to let it happen... can you imagine all those amateur astronomers looking up at the sky going ...

"My God—it's full of stars!"*

OIC!
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A...ey_%28novel%29
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