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.
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Ernie Defort was born in Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada on July 7, 1931 and had a parasitic twin similar to Laloo’s or Piramal’s, attached at the sternum with two arms and two legs. He was billed as Ernie-Len or Len and Ernie, “Two Boys with One Head”. These photos are from a 1936 appearance with Conklin Shows in Vancouver. When the child was 12, his health began to fail. He was taken to the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where a Dr. Henry Meyerding amputated the parasitic twin in October of 1943. Within a month, Ernie had recovered enough to return to school, although he remained somewhat depressed over the loss of his “brother”.
