{"id":11740,"date":"2021-10-09T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11740"},"modified":"2021-11-07T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T20:10:10","slug":"undersea-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/09\/undersea-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Undersea Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from WIRED<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Bad Solar Storm Could Cause an ‘Internet Apocalypse’<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The undersea cables that connect much of the world would be hit especially hard by a coronal mass ejection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Lily Hay Newman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even if the power comes back after the next big solar storm, the internet may not. PHOTOGRAPH: JEAN CLAUDE MOSCHETTI\/REA\/REDUX<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

SCIENTISTS HAVE KNOWN\u00a0for decades that an extreme\u00a0solar storm<\/a>, or\u00a0coronal mass ejection<\/a>, could damage electrical grids and potentially\u00a0cause prolonged blackouts<\/a>. The repercussions would be felt everywhere from global supply chains and transportation to internet and GPS access. Less examined until now, though, is the impact such a solar emission could have on internet infrastructure specifically. New research shows that the failures could be catastrophic, particularly for the undersea cables that underpin the global internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the\u00a0SIGCOMM 2021<\/a>\u00a0data communication conference on Thursday, Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi of the University of California, Irvine presented \u201cSolar Superstorms: Planning for an Internet Apocalypse,\u201d an examination of the damage a fast-moving cloud of magnetized solar particles could cause the global internet. Abdu Jyothi’s\u00a0research<\/a>\u00a0points out an additional nuance to a blackout-causing solar storm: the scenario where even if power returns in hours or days, mass internet outages persist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from WIRED A Bad Solar Storm Could Cause an ‘Internet Apocalypse’ The undersea cables that connect much of the world would be hit especially hard by a coronal mass ejection. by Lily Hay Newman SCIENTISTS HAVE KNOWN\u00a0for decades that an extreme\u00a0solar storm, or\u00a0coronal mass ejection, could damage electrical grids and potentially\u00a0cause prolonged blackouts. The repercussions […]<\/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-11740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11740","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=11740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}