{"id":11650,"date":"2021-09-12T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11650"},"modified":"2021-09-23T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T21:01:35","slug":"the-evil-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/09\/12\/the-evil-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evil Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ktvz.com\/cnn-regional\/2021\/09\/10\/growing-risk-of-once-in-a-century-solar-superstorm-that-could-knock-out-internet-study-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">from KTVZ<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Growing risk of once-in-a-century solar superstorm that could knock out internet, study says<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By Alexandra Mae Jones<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktvz.b-cdn.net\/2021\/06\/KTVZ-USworld2.png\" alt=\"<i&gt;<\/i&gt;<br\/&gt;\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TORONTO (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/sci-tech\/growing-risk-of-once-in-a-century-solar-superstorm-that-could-knock-out-internet-study-says-1.5579689\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CTV Network<\/a>) \u2014 Imagine if one day the internet was down not just in your neighbourhood, but across the globe, knocked out by a threat from space: an enormous solar superstorm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It sounds like science fiction, but a new study says it could become our reality earlier than we think if we don\u2019t prepare properly for the next time the sun spits a wave of magnetized plasma at us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAstrophysicists estimate the likelihood of a solar storm of sufficient strength to cause catastrophic disruption occurring within the next decade to be 1.6 \u2014 12 per cent,\u201d the study states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPaying attention to this threat and planning defenses against it, [\u2026] is critical for the long-term resilience of the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/ktvz.com\/cnn-regional\/2021\/09\/10\/growing-risk-of-once-in-a-century-solar-superstorm-that-could-knock-out-internet-study-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at KTVZ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from KTVZ Growing risk of once-in-a-century solar superstorm that could knock out internet, study says By Alexandra Mae Jones TORONTO (CTV Network) \u2014 Imagine if one day the internet was down not just in your neighbourhood, but across the globe, knocked out by a threat from space: an enormous solar superstorm. It sounds like science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}