Good morning, i was shocked to read this just now

[Mary45]

http://uk.news.yahoo....e-threat-4b158bc.html

What is the reality regarding solar flares particularly this one? Scaremongering or could a solar storm could cause a " geomagnetic storm on Earth, knocking out electricity grids around the world for hours, days, or even months, bringing much of normal life grinding to a halt." As they say? How exactly could an incident on the sun knock out earths electricity?

[squarebear]

Sounds good Mary!

[jake-the-peg]

SB's not wrong you know!

I earned so much overtime testing and finding bugs in 1999! it was brilliant

[ll_billym]

Telecomunications networks and a lot of IT infrastructure rely very heavily on the GPS satellite system to work correctly as it distributes accurate frequencies and timecodes. Solar flares will affect GPS so there is a small chance that mobile and landline communications may be disrupted, this includes the internet. Another big user of this is are digital broadcast networks such as Freeview, so no television either...

By the way, we also sell very expensive Cesium clocks that do not rely on GPS :)