[kapnap]

Good luck to any directional drillers out there trying to drill your well blind.

[JumpCrisscross]

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[kapnap]

It's kind of a running joke when you work as a Drilling Engineer and the Directional Driller says they can't confirm their coordinates due to magnetic storms.

https://www.usgs.gov/communications-and-publishing/news/gett...

[WJW]

It's a reference to the "Armageddon" movie from 1998 when a bunch of oil rig drillers get recruited into being astronauts for plot reasons. It was a decent enough movie but nothing you need to look up unless you have an unhealthy obsession for Arwen from Lord Of The Rings.

[_Microft]

If I had to guess, I would say that Earth's magnetic field is used in directional drilling to tell which way your drill head is going and that the solar storm distorts Earth's magnetic field.