YouTube - Attack of the Sun
Click to viewOn September 1, 1859, a vast coronal mass ejection from the Sun hit the Earth. It was so powerful that telegraph equipment caught fire from the induced electromagnetic flux, and people merely standing near metal objects received serious electrical shocks. It could happen again at any time -- and this time, it could shut down our high-tech civilization, so dependent on electronics, satellites, and the Internet, all exquisitely vulnerable to destruction by a Godzilla-class EMP from the Sun.