Think of Earth’s atmosphere like a bicycle tire. When the first solar storm hit, its #magnetic 🧲 field drove currents that caused Earth’s upper atmosphere and particles to move in one direction. When the second surprise solar storm hit, it was oriented in such a way as to cause the motion of Earth’s upper atmosphere to reverse direction. The friction and energy of the two opposing forces released heat in quantities more than models had anticipated https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/02/12/spacex-starlink-explainer-storm-sun/
#Computer errors 🐞 from #OuterSpace from a vote-counting machine that added thousands of non-existent votes to a candidate's tally, to a commercial #airliner ✈️ that suddenly dropped hundreds of feet mid-flight ⤵️, injuring dozens of passengers. A pacemaker's ❤️ built-in computer data got corrupted mid-flight. A group of researchers investigated more than 2,000 bit errors logged by a #satellite 🛰️ over roughly two years in #orbit. A huge number of the errors were clustered in an area called the South Atlantic Anomaly. According to #Nasa, #astronauts 👨🚀 on the #SpaceShuttle used to notice that their #laptops 💻 sometimes crashed when the space shuttle passed through the #SAAhttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221011-how-space-weather-causes-computer-errors
🌌 "#SpaceWeather is in its infancy, and an international effort is working towards developing a robust forecast system. We are in a race against time ⏱️, since we cannot know when the ‘perfect storm’ may occur – and it seems as if we are overdue a large event."
Thursday's flare temporarily disrupted radio 📻 communication on #Earth for a couple of hours, with multiple #pilots 🛬 reporting #communication problems.
"Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity."
@nyrath Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell
📆 December 22, 2023 “NASA and its contractors still face multiple challenges with development”, the #GAO found in a recent audit of the #Artemis mission. As a result, takeoff 🚀 “is unlikely to occur in 2025.” The GAO’s auditors project a launch date in early 📆 2027.
Various complications can thwart on-time air travel from one city to the next, but that’s nothing compared with moving a crew of people 238,855 miles away to an #inhumane environment.
In 📆 August 2021, #NASA’s Office of Inspector General documented #spacesuit development delays https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/22/nasa-artemis-moon-delay-gao-report/
From #satellite 🛰️ imagery for monitoring 👀 vast forest areas to #GPS 🧭 systems essential for precise data collection and effective communication, technology is at the heart of contemporary #forest 🌲🌳 management. Beyond technological disruptions, #solar ☀️ superstorms could also have a profound impact on the ecological balance within forest ecosystems. The #downtime ⛔ in forest management and conservation efforts, coupled with the potential #ecological impacts, could have far-reaching consequences for the global economy 〽️ https://forestry.com/editorial/the-hidden-threat-of-solar-superstorm-a-forestry-perspective/
Picture : #Aurora over the forest https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aurora_over_the_boreal_forest_(57be20e1-a3cf-453e-9632-2d38df39b643).jpg
• #SolarStorm of 📆 1859 (#Carrington Event) caused widespread disruption of telegraph 🗼 service.
• Aurora of 📆 1882 disrupted telegraph 🗼service.
• 📆 1921 geomagnetic storm disrupted telegraph 🗼service and damaged electrical 🔌 equipment worldwide.
• #SolarStorm of 📆 1972, a large #SEP ☀️ event. If #astronauts 👨🚀 had been in #space 🌌 at the time, the dose could have been life-threatening ☠️.
• 📆 1989 geomagnetic storm included multiple #SpaceWeather effects: SEP, CME, Forbush decrease, ground level enhancement, geomagnetic storm, etc..
• 📆 2000 Bastille Day event coincided with exceptionally bright aurora.
• 📆 2002, the Nozomi #Mars Probe was hit by a large SEP ☀️ event that caused large-scale #failure. The mission, which was already about 3 years behind schedule, was abandoned in December 2003.
• 📆 2003 Halloween #SolarStorms, a series of coronal mass ejections and solar flares in late October and early November 2003 with associated impacts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_weather#Notable_events
@Tergenev I know https://everydayastronaut.com/rocket-pollution. The problem is to shorten an article's main topic to a couple of sentences (here it's "we haven't a clue what launches do to the upper atmosphere"). One of the examples was soot (and that #Starship doesn't produce any)
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