
Could a solar flare wipe out humanity?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Sun Is Coming Up, Is It Coming?
In 18 50, ninea. This enormous mass of energy hit the earth. A gy named carrington who was actually watching the sun just before this happened. He noticed a bunch of big sun spots, more than he'd ever seen before. And then a couple of days later, telegraph networks across the earth started to go crazy. Like sparks were flying from people's telegraphs and people who were touching wires got shocked. There was so much energy in these things that it created like an artificial dawn. People had like religious epiphanes.
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