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Massive solar storm could cause global Internet blackout for months finds new research.
Solar storms are fascinating phenomena to observe. But the next time an eruption of mass and energy from the sun is likely to hit Earth, it could cause an Internet blackout lasting for months, according to new research.
A paper by Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi at the SIGCOMM 2021 data communication conference has postulated the likelihood of a solar storm hitting the planet. Jyothi, who is based at the University of California, Irvine, says that the storm could actually be a solar superstorm, comparing it to a black swan event.
- Internet cables are under the seas...
Could kill GPS and you can't call an Uber but the internet will be fine.grafician - this topic that keeps coming back nothing chang.
grafician shall get stuck in the Suez canal after trying to navigate a merchant ship with a compass.sted - Innovation never solar stormsinteliboy
- Internet cables are under the seas...
- grafician-1
"A night picture from the Cupola: sometimes star lights battle it out with city lights for who’s the brightest and more beautiful."
- Also the feed https://www.flickr.c…grafician
- A, this is far from the best shot from that series, and B.. https://www.qbn.com/…Nairn
- niceutopian
- utopian0
- https://en.wikipedia…sted
- https://earthsky.org…sted
- Transient Lunar Phenomena
A great band name!utopian
- grafician0
- all flowers were grown in space. EVERYTHING is "in space"sarahfailin
- *First flower grown in zero-gsted
- No, you're right, "first flower grown in low Earth orbit"grafician
- Nairn2
- https://i.imgur.com/…Nairn
- Hmmm seems I reposted it again in Black and white photography thread
https://www.qbn.com/…
Missed your post, but this is a great fucking picture!grafician
- grafician-1
"Satellite Smash
A Chinese military satellite appears to have gotten smashed by a disintegrating Russian rocket, Space.com reports, in what’s likely the worst orbital collision since 2009.The collision illustrates the growing danger of derelict spacecraft parts and other jetsam in Earth’s orbit, where they can smash functional equipment — as well as the extraordinary difficulty in figuring out what’s going on in Earth’s orbit."
- Mars will become our next landfill and planet dump.utopian
- were is the danger when this military fuckers nuke themselves in orbit?uan
- There are treaties against weapons in space and owning space property. So space will always be free for all.grafician
- sure, like the Geneva Conventions that are honoured in every single war on the planet :-)uan
- grafician-3
- Elon: "Over time, we might get orbital payload up to ~150 tons with full reusabity. If Starship then launched as an expendable, payload would be ~250 tons. "grafician
- ^for comparison the ISS has around 420T mass, this means the Starship could load up a new ISS in 2 trips!grafician
- Also "SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is aiming to build a Starship rocket every 72 hours in the company’s new factory in Texas. "grafician
- ^ source:
https://www.digitalt…grafician - If Starship works, which I fucking hope it does (eventually), it will change everything we know about access to space.
Fucking Go, SpaceX.Nairn - It's happening whatever - even if SpaceX fails, which I doubt it will - China will follow-through very shorlty. Thereafter, every cunt'll be on it.Nairn
- This will also put them at the front of commercial space viability.monospaced
- neverscared2
- huh, I had no idea a Soviet Lunar rover had roved so far!Nairn
- Nairn1
Good overview of what SX is up to now with starship development.
Irrespective of what your opinions of Musk might be, the sheer scope of investment and industry at here - on their own dime - is highly impressive. Compare to Blue Origin who.. er.. well.
I love how downlo a lot of it is too. It's like some future Star Trek Movie, looking back at the early days....
- Fuck, not just BO - but every goddamn military industry behwheouth too.Nairn
- Starship instantly becomes one of the most important military assets. Built cheap enough, it's a space truck - one time use at worst - reusable at best.Nairn
- *behwemouth, i mean if we're going to spell things wrong, spell them right wrong at least.Nairn
- utopian0
- oh god it's headed straight towards earth!! hide yo kidssarahfailin
- utopian2
Astronomers see back of a black hole for first time, proving Albert Einstein was right.
- paywall. observed xrays coming off an accretion disk, bent by gravity (gen. relativity), allowing us to detect them tho on the other side. bad headline.sarahfailin
- general relativity has already been "proven" many times. we didn't see "the back of a black hole" black holes spin very fast, so we always see all sides.sarahfailin
- All I want to know is are black holes racists or what?Ianbolton
- not as racist as white holes, cracker!sarahfailin
- White dwarf stars are not only racist, but ableist.monospaced
- https://www.vice.com…canoe
- ^this headline is much more accurate.sarahfailin
- scarabin8
- LMP is the culprit.hotroddy
- CMP for sure ;)monospaced
- What they don't show you on 'For All Mankind'.Wordsworth