text:  Because that's estimated to be more like a 100-year storm, and the 1859 one might be a 500-year storm. Well, the interesting thing is that just in July of 2012, there was a CME, a coronal mass ejection, that launched out from the sun, and it headed exactly where the Earth had been one week earlier. Oh, we lucked out on that. We dodged that one. We barely, barely missed it. If that storm had happened a week later...