Something else to ponder on
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Disregard my last reply I was trying to send this one and my phone is being complicated
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Dostoyevsky
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I follow Tamitha Skov, and she's great on explaining what's happening on the sun. Latest from her:
A little pointer for you bmwrickster…use this same thread when you want to post again on this topic of solar storms and solar ejections and such.
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Thank you
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andrewOz
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This possibility is an "old story".
If you know anything about the Carrington Event (look it up), it is not a question of "if", but "when" an emission large enough to burn out integrated circuits will be "aimed" at the earth.
Very powerful, potentially damaging emissions occur so often, they are a "non-event", as they are not "aimed" at the earth.
When such an emission IS "aimed" at the earth, anything with an integrated circuit which is not in a Farrady cage or deep underground will be fried. That almost certainly will mean the end of reticulated power, water, sewerage and gas services for at least months, if not years.
That could next happen tomorrow, next week, next month or millennia from now. No one knows.
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I agree
CME is like the E3 component of an EMP. Low frequency that only affects long circuits.(requires a long antenna)
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Thank you for your information
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Yeah I stay away from my long antennas
andrewOz
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Are you saying it will NOT affect integrated circuits?
I have never read that.
The Carrington Event did not affect integrated circuits as there were none in 1859.
Not that it can't, but the earth's magnetic field shields us from all but the lowest frequencies.
High orbit satellites, such as those in geosychronous orbit, are exposed enough for their circuits to be damaged.
Read this NASA article for more info:
https://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory/spaceweather.htm
andrewOz
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I read the article you linked.
It says the earth is protected (to a great degree) by the magnetosphere, but it did not state categorically that there is no damage to short "antennas", e.g. integrated circuits. My understanding from reports about potential EMP issues are that they are susceptible. (But I don't claim to be an authority on the subject.)
if you follow radio propagation you will see the lines of magnetic resonance are changing!!!
Well obviously they can be affected, but so far we've only seen that happen to satellites in high orbit. Low orbit satellites and the space station weren't affected. Possibly a large enough CME could overcome the shielding from the earth's magnetic field.
