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Anonymous Sun Sep 12 15:45:00 2010 No.1744613 [Reply] [Original]

>The March 1989 geomagnetic storm was a severe geomagnetic storm that caused the collapse of Hydro-Québec's electricity transmission system.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/March_1989_geomagnetic_storm
>Officials watched in disbelief as three disc drives failed in succession on what is supposed to be a 'fault-tolerant' computer system.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12316812.400-solar-storms-halt-stock-market-as-computers-crash
.html

The next peak in solar activity will occur during 2012/2013, how will you protect your computer?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 12 15:46:00 2010 No.1744619 Gigantic condom

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 12 15:48:08 2010 No.1744628 faraday cage what now, sun?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 12 15:49:17 2010 No.1744633 Turn it off?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 12 15:49:40 2010 No.1744630 >>1744613 Encase it in a metallic faraday cage Oh, wait a minute....

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