An 'Internet apocalypse' could ride to Earth with the next solar storm, new research warns

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A catastrophic solar storm could take huge sections of the Earth offline for weeks or months, a new research paper warns.

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""What really got me thinking about this is that with the pandemic we saw how unprepared the world was. There was no protocol to deal with it effectively, and it's the same with internet resilience," Abdu Jyothi told WIRED. "Our infrastructure is not prepared for a large-scale solar event." "

It will always come down to resources (or money if you prefer)... Do you want to invest in solving today's problems or making today's problems more simplified for the future...., or do you want to let problems of today mount and try and solve a relative knknown that may or may not happen in our lifetime.

Asking Joe Bloggs, do you want better and faster internet that is more reliable for the same price.... or do you want to keep your older system at a high cost bit be assured we have an answer to a problem that nay never happen.