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So often the sun has been linked to life. It provides the necessary ingredients of the recipe that makes up plant life and helps maintain the climate rather nicely. All said and done the sun is a pretty good thing to see when you get up in the morning.

I am sure many of you would agree with me when I say that I love waking up in the morning to a sun filled day as opposed to a cloud filled or even raining one, but that is just me. There is just something about the sun and the blue sky that just looks wonderful. It makes me feel good and adds to the start of a good day.

Apparently all with the sun is not good. As we know that we can easily get sun burned from time to time if we are not prepared. But, there is a brand new worry about the sun and it is called a sun storm.

FoxNews.com is reporting that sun storms could possibly knock out the power in the United States by as much as 6 months. That would absolutely change life as we know it. Imagine all of the information that we store on computers. Our reliance on this data is crucial to our existance. What would happen if we had no access to that data.

We couldn’t really do our jobs. We probably wouldn’t have any access to our money. Our life as we know it would cease to exist and it would be absolute chaos. I guess the sun isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Here is a snippet from the report that is being broadcast on foxnews.com:

A new study from the National Academy of Sciences outlines grim possibilities on Earth for a worst-case scenario solar storm.

Damage to power grids and other communications systems could be catastrophic, the scientists conclude, with effects leading to a potential loss of governmental control of the situation.

The prediction is based in part on a major solar storm in 1859 that caused telegraph wires to short out in the United States and Europe, igniting widespread fires.

It was perhaps the worst in the past 200 years, according to the new study, and with the advent of modern power grids and satellites, much more is at risk.

“A contemporary repetition of the [1859] event would cause significantly more extensive (and possibly catastrophic) social and economic disruptions,” the researchers conclude.

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That doesn’t sound like a walk in the park. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen to us.

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