Solar Flare

Have any of you heard about solar flares? They are the suns natural activity that can cause destruction of electronic material through strong geomagnetic occurrences. In 1859 a significantly large one occurred causing seemingly trivial occurrences at the time including sparks leaping from telegraph equipment which had been reported to have caused fires. During that event telegraph lines were destroyed, yet in a more modern time such as today what would we do? This would wipe our hard drives clean and destroy large transformers and power lines throughout out America. Well according to National Geographic we are leaving a solar dormancy period that might result in another large flare like that. The entire internet array would be gone; all of our Facebook posts, our emails and anything online will be whipped out if this happens. So if you have files that you would like to make sure to keep burn them onto a CD, DVD or best yet a Blue ray.

All of this sounds like an unlikely occurrence, but it will happen sometime and the main question is; will you be one of the last people with family photos and personal music?