"Massive bursts of solar wind and magnetic fields, shot into space on July 23, 2012, would have been aimed directly at Earth if they had happened nine days earl

"Massive bursts of solar wind and magnetic fields, shot into space on July 23, 2012, would have been aimed directly at Earth if they had happened nine days earlier, Luhmann said." This is incredible to think about. The chaos this would cause is hard to imagine. We lost power in a data center last spring during a thunder storm and we're still dealing with fallout and problems 9 months later.