The Carrington Event: Earth's Electronic Apocalypse

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Source/Further reading:
History, the Carrington Event: www.history.co...
Scientific American, studies warn of cataclysmic solar storms: www.scientific...
National Geographic: www.nationalge...
NASA, 2012 superstorm near-miss: science.nasa.g...
NASA Spaceflight, Carrington Event warning: www.nasaspacef...
BBC Solar Storms explained: www.bbc.com/ne...
Cosmos, are Carrington-sized events more common than previously thought? cosmosmagazine...
Possible other Carrington-sized events: spaceweatherar...
History of telegraph communication: www.elon.edu/u...
Texas Storm death toll: www.npr.org/20...