Sadly, no. This has nothing to do with any remake of "Dynasty."
This is related to a tremendous solar "sneeze" that occurred on September 1, 1859 that flung a ball of solar snot, also known as "plasma", so powerful that, beginning less than 24 hours later, communications systems world wide were severely disrupted (1). Considering that all they had back in those days was the telegraph, this seems fairly significant. The plasma eruption itself (more properly called a Coronal Mass Ejection, a term I'll have to remember the next time I have a particularly wet sneeze) was associated with a solar flare that was observed by one of England's foremost solar astronomers, Richard Carrington.
Carrington also reportedly, at that moment, coined the phrase, "Oh, THIS can't be good."
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