[Outages] GPS Receiver Issues?

[Conrad Golightly]

I feel like the last 48 hours on this mailing list are a real-life
rehash of the first 15 minutes of a movie like Armageddon or Deep
Impact.  

Random scientist #1: Hey, did you see this reading?
Random scientist #2: Yeah, that's pretty high.  Well within spec,
though.  Maybe.  *shrug*

... two days pass ...

The planet is destroyed by an asteroid.

Fin.

(Not that I am complaining.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Gadi Evron [mailto:ge at linuxbox.org] 
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 4:17 PM
To: Fergie
Cc: outages at isotf.org
Subject: Re: [Outages] GPS Receiver Issues?

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Fergie wrote:
> 
> Russian scientists warned Wednesday that U.S. and other satellites 
> could be damaged by a new wave of intense solar flares.

This is getting a bit off-topic, but we have a space weather center for
a reason. Such solar flares can even cause the power grid to black out.
Think EMP on satelites, as well. There is a monitoring satelite half-way
between earth and the Sun to give just such warnings.

	Gadi.

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