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Considering the 1859 Carrington Event's effect of making some telegraph wire spark, would POTS (Plain Old Telephone Systems) be useful after a giant solar flare EMP or would their nature as a series of enormous antennae cause them to be a locus of damage?

by /u/mutant_suicide_squad in /r/askscience

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