Solar storms don’t harm people directly — they induce electric currents in long metal, meaning the power lines, pipelines and undersea internet cables we’ve strung across the planet are exactly what they attack

The 1989 Quebec blackout took down a grid serving six million people in 92 seconds — not because the solar storm hurt anyone, but because the long metal of the transmission lines was exactly what it could attack. The post Solar storms don’t harm people directly — they induce electric currents in long metal, meaning the power lines, pipelines and undersea internet cables we’ve strung across the planet are exactly what they attack appeared first on Space Daily .