During my free time i was checking out the BBC news on my phone. As i was reading the news i saw that there were a solar flares that would hit earth. As time progressed, i saw that one solar flare had already hit earth on February 14, 2011. After this i was interested in knowing more about these solar flares and so this led to me doing some searching about the solar flares. The thing that interested me the most about this was that i wanted to know what kind of affects do the solar flares have on earth. After watching a video in the BBC news website, i realized that the solar flares could damage earths communications as well as GPS signals in flight patterns. After watching this video i also found another article that explained the difference in solar storm damage from G1-G5. G1 wouldn't me such an issue, but G5 would would destroy some satellites that have no radiation protection, and some electrical components. These solar flares would damage today's society, because everything that we do as humans is affected by technology. If something like a G5 flare would happen again, as it did once before in September 1859, it would be catastrophic.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12516918 

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/02/weak-solar-storm/