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Oh, I know what I was going to mention. So on Tuesday, there was a sunspot. There were a couple sunspots that were basically facing towards the earth. And they've since rotated away. But in 1859, there was a phenomenon called the Carington event. And the sun unleashed a coronal mass injection. They come out of those sunspots. And anyway, it was a big one. And it hit the earth. And it caused widespread communication, disruption. Telegraphs were lit on fire. And even after they were shut off, telegraph operators found that they could still communicate. Aurora Borealis deep into the south as far as Florida. So that type of thing, it was a big solar event. So something like.
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