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Dr. Kathryn Sullivan: Warning, Worldwide Electricity will be off in 2013!

A leading scientist from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in United States, Dr. Kathryn Sullivan warned yesterday that a solar storm would reach at its peak after two years (in 2013).
Biggest Solar Storm
A sample picture of a solar storm

She asserted that this biggest solar storm could damage communications satellites, navigation systems, telephone networks, and electrical transmission equipment. This storm also release particles that can damage the computer systems temporarily or permanently.

Picture of Kathryn D. Sullivan
Picture of Kathryn D. Sullivan | jsc.nasa.gov

"It's really going to be a problem when solar storms hit our planet," Sullivan said in a UN conference on global climate in Geneva, Switzerland. She is a NASA woman astronaut (American National Space Agency) who in 1989 became the first woman to walk in space.

Expert astronomers delivered a similar warning last February 2011. According to them, people would be more vulnerable to solar storms from the peak in 2013. They called all countries to prepare for such a global catastrophe that Hurricane Katrina had struck the country's brother Sam.

The experts also warned of the coming solar storm can cause death worldwide electricity for weeks or even months. The peak of solar storms took place every 11-12 years. Last held in 2001, but its effects on Earth's weak.

Solar storm in 1972 had cut long-distance telephone network in the State of Illinois, USA. Similar events in 1989 caused power outages throughout the Provinisi Quebec, Canada. - https://www.affordablecebu.com/
 

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"Dr. Kathryn Sullivan: Warning, Worldwide Electricity will be off in 2013!" was written by Mary under the News category. It has been read 5427 times and generated 0 comments. The article was created on and updated on 20 May 2011.
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