Prepare & Fortify Power Grid for National Security - OpenDefense - by IdeaScale Prepare & Fortify National Security: for an inevitable Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP), both natural and man made are deemed likely. One man made device over the center of the USA and detonated near 100-200 miles high, will cripple the USA - coast to coast, and most of the urban areas of Canada and Mexico in an instant. It could take decades to repair our way out of such an event. To secure our National Security, harden our power grid infrastructure-backbone against an EMP – pre-position spare parts & and create a core system hardened to allow something to come back on-line quickly allowing us to build our way out of a crashed grid, and save millions of lives in the short and near term. Devise a plan to abruptly disconnect the critical grid components to prevent a continent-wide cascade of failure in event of a solar event (or enemy attack). For natural solar events search: "The Carrington Event" for a historical analysis of the current solar cycle and what happened in 1859. "Rep.
SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids - Nightly Titan « Lights in the Dark Illustration of a sunrise above a liquid methane lake on Titan. © Ron Miller. All rights reserved. We’ve known for quite some time now that lakes of liquid methane and ethane exist on the frigid surface of Saturn’s overcast moon Titan. Now, a research team led by Jason Barnes of the University of Idaho has released findings showing what might be wave action — however small — captured by instruments aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during several Titan flybys. Read the rest of this article here. Like this post? Like this: Like Loading...
Time Machine A METEOR SHOWER IN BROAD DAYLIGHT: The annual Arietid meteor shower peaks this week on June 7th and 8th. The Arietids are unusual because they are daytime meteors; the shower is most intense after sunrise. People who wake up early might notice a small number of Arietids during the dark hours before dawn. The real action, however, occurs in broad daylight. M-FLARE AND RADIATION STORM: This morning around 0641 UT, magnetic fields above sunspot complex 1226-1227 became unstable and erupted. more movies: YouTube; 5 MB mpeg; 2 MB Quicktime A video with commentary from solar physicist C. Coronagraphs onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) are still monitoring the CME as it billows away from the sun. Although the blast was not squarely Earth-directed, it will affect our planet. June 2011 Aurora Gallery [Aurora alerts: text, voice] [previous Junes: 2010, 2008, 2001] Alan Friedman took the picture from his backyard observatory in Buffalo, New York, on June 5th.
SOLARHAM.com / Solar Cycle 24 / Spaceweather / Amateur Radio VHF Aurora Website - Nightly Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA: Huge solar flare may disrupt power and communications By Agence France-PresseTuesday, June 7, 2011 18:13 EDT WASHINGTON — An unusual solar flare observed by a NASA space observatory on Tuesday could cause some disruptions to satellite communications and power on Earth over the next day or so, officials said. The potent blast from the Sun unleashed a firestorm of radiation on a level not witnessed since 2006, and will likely lead to moderate geomagnetic storm activity by Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. “This one was rather dramatic,” said Bill Murtagh, program coordinator at the NWS’s Space Weather Prediction Center, describing the M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare that peaked at 1:41 am Eastern time in the United States, or 0541 GMT. “We saw the initial flare occurring and it wasn’t that big but then the eruption associated with it — we got energy particle radiation flowing in and we got a big coronal mass injection,” he said. “You can see all the materials blasting up from the Sun so it is quite fantastic to look at.”
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