Dark Side of the Sun ; On the 150th Anniversary of the Last Major Solar Superstorm to Strike the Earth, Pessimistic Feature Writer David Clensy Looks at How a Massive Belch of Plasma From the Sun Won't Mean the End of the World - Just the End of Civilisation As We Know It

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IT is an anniversary that may go largely unnoticed, but it's one that could have serious implications for you, me and indeed all of Western Civilisation. Ignore the events of September 1, 1859, at your peril.

Exactly 150 years ago tomorrow, something extraordinary was happening in the evening skies above Bristol. The sailors and dockers were looking up through the rigging of their boats at the sky.

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Dark Side of the Sun ; On the 150th Anniversary of the Last Major Solar Superstorm to Strike the Earth, Pessimistic Feature Writer David Clensy Looks at How a Massive Belch of Plasma From the Sun Won't Mean the End of the World - Just the End of Civilisation As We Know It

In the streets the grocers, bakers, butchers and dressmakers were all standing outside their shops, their eyes fixed on the heavens.

They were all asking the same question. Why hasn't it gone dark? Actually, it was a question that was hanging on the lips of people all over the country. Indeed, all over the world, as night ...

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