Scientists have warned that a huge cosmic storm in outer space that may lead to an ''internet apocalypse'' at some point in the next decade would cause ''unimaginable'' damage to global infrastructure. The predicted astrophysical event would leave humans without access to the internet for months or potentially even years as it would cut out satellites and power lines.
The shocking discovery to this obscure future possibility has been made for the first time using tree rings as scientists reveal that forests are an ideal place to detect cosmic radiation with an archive going back millennia.
Scientists who studied the rings in an Australian woodland area to supply ''snapshots'' of Earth's history have said that the chances of the disastrous storm happening in the next ten years are quite ''alarming'', the Daily Star reports.
