There are rumors in social media from now on that in 2025, the internet can come to a standstill worldwide due to a solar storm. Washington post Report According to, the US space agency NASA has not yet commented on such possibility.
However, there is a lot of discussion that if the internet is over, then what will people who are always online do? The report says that such concerns are not completely clad. So can the Internet really end in 2025?
According to the report, a powerful solar storm can hit our planet, but ever since the world has become a global village, that is, such a solar event has not been seen since. The last time in 1859, the incident of Carrington took place due to solar activities. Then the telegraph lines were sparking and the power operators felt stuck. However, there was no internet then. Power grids in Canada were affected for a few hours due to a 1989 solar storm.
In the Washington Post report, Professor Sangeeta Abdu Jyoti of Computer Science of the University of California has been quoted as saying that we have not yet faced such solar storms. We do not know how our infrastructure will react. One of his research paper has played a role in gaining popularity in the word ‘Internet Apocalypse’.
Sangeeta Jyoti says that the infrastructure of the communication cables below the sea may be affected extensively due to a severe solar storm. It can disrupt long distance internet connectivity. Such outages can last for several months. If this happens, only in America will have an economic impact of more than $ 11 billion in a day.