Scientists are warning of a solar storm, fearing that the spacecraft ‘TSUNAMI’ will cause a ‘Internet catastrophe.’ - Brinkwire

Scientists are warning of a solar storm, fearing that the spacecraft ‘TSUNAMI’ will cause a ‘Internet catastrophe.’

SCIENTISTS have warned that the Earth is inadequately unprepared for a “potent solar superstorm” that could knock out the internet and usher in a technological “apocalypse.”

According to a new study published by academics at the University of California, Irvine, space poses the greatest threat to global Internet security. Major solar activity – the likes of which haven’t been seen in over a century – has the potential to trigger a disastrous “Internet apocalypse.” Solar storms have the potential to disrupt key services and cause losses of up to £5 billion ($7 billion) each day in the United States alone, in a society that relies on the Internet for its smooth operation.

Even a few minutes of a global Internet outage, according to Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, a professor of computer science and the study’s author, would be disastrous.

The outage might extend for days or perhaps months in the worst-case scenario.

“The Internet has played a major role in helping us deal with the coronavirus epidemic, a recent black swan event,” Professor Jyothi stated in her paper, Solar Superstorms: Planning for an Internet Apocalypse.

“However, Internet researchers and operators are mostly unaware of a second black swan event that poses a direct threat to Internet infrastructure.

“In this work, we investigate the impact of solar superstorms, which have the potential to create global Internet outages that last many months.”

Solar storms have wreaked havoc on the earth in the past, but these were before the Internet, satellite technology, and high-speed communications.

The Carrington Event, the largest solar storm ever recorded, happened in 1859.

The storm, which was triggered by a coronal mass ejection (CME) – a huge outpouring of plasma and magnetic field from the Sun – damaged telegraph lines across North America and Europe, causing many fires.

So-called solar “tsunamis” on the Sun’s surface can send particularly powerful CMEs racing our way.

These are waves of heated plasma that rise higher than Earth and ripple out millions of kilometres in a circular pattern, according to NASA.

Today, if one of these solar tsunamis generated a Carrington-level event, it would cause widespread blackouts, knock out satellites, and throw the world into pandemonium.

Professor Jyothi estimated that 20 to 40 million people were affected by her research. “Brinkwire News in Condensed Form.”

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2021-09-05 18:17:24Z
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