Apparently Sun Storms Can Set Off Sea Mines

or, at least, Vietnam War-era sea mines.

“And somehow, amid all that drama, space weather researchers had largely ignored another consequence of the storm: “the sudden detonation of a ‘large number’ of US Navy… sea mines [that had been] dropped into the coastal waters of North Vietnam only three months earlier.”

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