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Comment on Ask HN: Why is the tech world quiet on the possible impact of solar flares?

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How is GPS going to be "inaccurate for some time in the near future" with the recent solar flares? Could you give me some links to articles or something? I read a lot of space related stuff and I haven't come across something like this.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/08/05/solar.flare.gp...

The peak is set to hit towards 2013. ZDNet (I think) ran an article on how it would mean that power would need shutting down for 3 months to avoid being burnt out during the peak

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