A train was delayed by a solar storm. But something didn't add up.
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Revising a 178-year-old solar storm record is a reminder that extreme space weather is not hypothetical — it’s a recurring infrastructure risk. Grid, satcom, and rail operators should treat geomagnetic events as design inputs for redundancy and recovery, not edge-case curiosities.
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