Recent Solar Flare Could Disrupt Communications

w98 writes "CNN has reported that the 4th largest solar flare in the last 15 years may disrupt communications. "Significant solar eruptions are possible in the coming days and there could be disruptions in spacecraft operations, electric power systems, high frequency communications and low-frequency navigation systems," says the article."

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President Bush was immediately blamed for the eruption as a result of not signing the Kyoto Accords and according the UN sources the possibility of sanctions was being investigated to raise money to repair the damage done to the sun by the imperialist USA. Slashdotters cheered like drunken revolting French mobs around a guillotine and began burning pictures of Bill Gates in a display of drunken ignorance of who was being blamed for what today.

Unfortunately, the story included a very artistic rendering of an orange instead of a dramatic, albeit stock, solar flare image. It's just somehow not as dramatic and motivating that way...