re: Spinoff from the cell phone thing: solar storms

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Solar flare only hits on daylight side of Earth and that wouldve been centered over India at the initial time of the outage.

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It’s not true that CME’s (which are technically distinct from solar flares, although they are related) only hit on the daylight side of earth. They interact with Earth’s magnetosphere and can have impacts across the globe, regardless of whether the region is in daylight.

The telegraph incident OP referenced happened at night. In fact, many impacts of CME’s can actually be worse on the night side of the planet due to the way they interact with the magnetosphere.

Not that I think this AT&T issue had anything to do with a CME, just saying the fact that India was facing the Sun wouldn’t have really meant anything in that context.