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Space Weather: Its impact on Earth & Implications for business
Lloyd's of London is the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories. They state: "A major space weather event in the approaching solar maximum could cause widespread disruption for unprepared businesses. Lloyd's 360 Space Weather Report Produced by Lloyd's and RAL Space, aims to increase awareness of space weather as a global risk."
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Ready.gov – Space Weather
Ready.gov, April 2012
The term “space weather” refers to the variable conditions on the sun and in space that can influence the performance of technology we use on Earth. Extreme space weather could potentially cause damage to critical infrastructure – especially the electric grid – highlighting the importance of being prepared.
In order to protect people and systems that might be at risk from space weather effects, we need to understand the causes of space weather.
The sun is the main source of space weather. Sudden bursts of plasma and magnetic field structures from the sun's atmosphere called coronal mass ejections (CME) together with sudden bursts of radiation, or solar flares, all cause space weather effects here on Earth.
Space weather can produce electromagnetic fields that induce extreme currents in wires, disrupting power lines, and even causing wide-spread blackouts. Severe space weather also produces solar energetic particles, which can damage satellites used for commercial communications, global positioning, intelligence gathering, and weather forecasting.
Comment: This is affectively a Ready.gov advice sheet on Space Weather.. For the naysayers, solar storms are nothing new, but it is the fact that the transmitting properties of space have changed and therefore if we get huge solar coronal mass ejections coming our way, then they will have a bigger impact. This is combined with the issues that Earth's magnetosphere (magnetic shielding) is less affective. Earth's magnetic shield has "cracks" in it as well as sometimes there are massive breaches where the magnetic field affectively disappears on the daylight side. What this means is the planet can be "zapped" by large large flows of charged particles from the Sun (BIG electrical shocks) and if this is too severe there is a danger of national power grids being knocked out. Of course on a personal level, every single brain on the planet is also getting some big shocks too as the big and small shocks are detected by human brains that are wired into the environmental Schumann Resonances - but there are other environmental signals that humans can pick up that are not so beneficial. I wrote about this in my book Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism & Spirtual Evolution and nothing has changed in my analysis. Now, we only have more revelations from the space agencies about geomagnetic conditions getting worse and worse. The planet is now regularly ringing like a bell with spacequakes.
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Panetta: [Space] Climate change a national security threat
The Examiner Washinton, 3rd May 2012
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared global warming a national security threat yesterday during a speech before an environmentalist group in Washington, D.C.
"The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security," Panetta told the Environmental Defense Fund last night. "Rising sea levels, severe droughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief."
The Defense Secretary must have missed Examiner Columnist Mona Charen's recent piece on how symbols of global warming aren't working out the way environmentalists predicted.
Comment: As I have explained previously, it is now clear that when government representatives and scientists jump up and down in panic mode about climate change they mean SPACE CLIMATE CHANGE, hence the desperate geoengineering ideas like putting a giant mirror in space etc. We know that people are blaming anything and everything on "climate change" and "global warming", but there are some major clues that some specific warnings are really about Space Weather being a major threat. So, all you have to do is substitute the phrase "climate change" to "space weather" and then certain press releases make sense and a perfect example is the UK government officials warning about wireless networks being affected by climate change (see link below). This is complete rubbish, but space weather affecting wireless networks due to poor geomagnetic conditions was highlighted in the Lloyd's of London, Space Weather, Its impact on Earth & Implications for business
report dated November, 2010. As many are now becoming aware, you can't tax cosmic rays, coronal mass ejections and geomagnetically induced currents.... The image icon came from WUWT that have an hilarious government advisory chart on climate change hysteria, see Jumping the shark: Climate change a national security threat. Please note: I have never entirely agreed with climate skeptics, but they are right that CO2 is not causing climate change, the world's global surface temperature is not increasing and the behaviour of the Sun is pointing to the start of a new mini-ice age.
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Climate change [Space Weather] 'threatens UK wi-fi connections', says government report
Study into impact of hotter, stormier [Space] weather on UK infrastructure finds threat to wi-fi range and signal strength
The Guardian, 9th May 2011
Wi-fi internet access and other communications are at risk from global warming unless measures are taken to protect them from rising temperatures and stormier weather, a government report warned on Monday.
Presenting the report, the secretary of state for the environment, Caroline Spelman, said that higher temperatures can reduce the range of wireless communications, rainstorms can impact the reliability of the signal, and drier summers and wetter winters may cause greater subsidence, damaging masts and underground cables.
Sunny outlook for space weather forecasters
Companies seek to sell tailor-made predictions of geomagnetic storms to airlines and electricity suppliers.
Nature News, 27th April 2012
For decades, companies have tailored public weather data for private customers from farmers to airlines. On Wednesday, a group of businesses said that they are on the cusp of developing a new market: fine-tuned space weather products for customers as varied as electrical utilities and satellite operators.
Space weather is caused by magnetic storms in the Sun's atmosphere, which release streams of particles into space that boost the energy of Earth's magnetic field. These geomagnetic storms can push satellites out of position in orbit and ramp up the current in electricity grids, sometimes causing sudden blackouts of communications and power.
The push to develop a commercial forecasting enterprise for space weather came at workshop hosted by the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Boulder, Colorado [...]
“You can’t have the SWPC calling every electrical utility in the country every time there is a space weather event.”
But SWPC physicist Doug Biesecker says that before customers are willing to pay for such private forecasts, the bedrock predictions provided by NOAA need to improve. Sometimes, the SWPC offers warnings for solar events three days in advance, but these are very uncertain. Further research into the processes of magnetic field reconnection within the Sun — the mechanism responsible for solar flares and coronal mass ejections, the two main drivers of solar activity — could help to improve forecasting models.
“We’re in a grey area,” says Onsager. “The quality of the information is right on the edge of being actionable.”
Comment: Hmmmm..... the world and our reality has changed and only a few have noticed. But some interested in keeping their businesses viable are taking an interest... and so they should... Btw they are not joking when they say the quality of the information has to improve.... seriously....big business needs to DEMAND a new solar wind monitor before they pay any money out and even then space weather prediction is in its infancy and unreliable. I can't even believe the storms we have had in the last week seemingly provoked by not much solar activity.... Well, space weather forecasters cannot use the past to predict the future because we are in completely unchartered territory.
Space environmentalist warns we need to better prepare for solar storms
PhysOrg.com, 19th April 2012
(Phys.org) -- In the business of everyday life, it’s easy to overlook things that could cause a serious disruption to how life is lived; floods happen, hurricanes, volcanoes and tsunamis like the one that devastated Japan last year. And now it seems, there is one more potential disaster we should add to the list: geomagnetic storms caused by coronal mass ejections from the sun. Mike Hapgood head of the space environment group with RAL Space, part of the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, has written a commentary published in the journal Nature, suggesting that it’s time we quit burying our heads in the sand regarding the devastating impact a serious solar storm could have on modern populations.
The problem he points out, is that we’ve become so dependent on electricity and electronic communications, that a big solar storm could cause power grids the world over to go down, and for GPS to become non-functional for an unknown amount of time, causing havoc across a wide spectrum of systems such as those used by the military, the Internet, financial institutions and of course aviation. And what’s more, he says, it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way because there are many things that could be done to prevent such a nasty outcome.
Comment: Thank God for the few with some intelligence and commonsense.... but quite frankly, you do not need to be too bright to understand what a serious threat we are under... If there is no electricity, then millions and millions of people are going to be dead within one year. This is a test of human intelligence by universal consciousness and so far too many people are failing badly....
Germany train crash: Three die in Offenbach collision
BBC News, 13th April 2012
See archives for link to the Lloyds of London Executive Summary section 5:. Space weather can also disrupt pipelines and railway signals
Sat-nav directions leave lorry wedged in Bristol street
BBC News, 27th March 2012
Information on the GOES-15 outage
WUWT, 22nd March 2012
Unexplained explosion caught live on Phoenix news broadcast
Yahoo News, March 2012
Underground Explosions Force Crews to Cut Power in Downtown Erie
Erie TV News, 8th March 2012
Southern Poland train crash leaves six dead
BBC News, 4th March 2012
Three serious rail crashes in 2 weeks? See below...
1 in 8 Chance of Catastrophic Solar Megastorm by 2020
Wired News, 29th February 2012
The Earth has a roughly 12 percent chance of experiencing an enormous megaflare erupting from the sun in the next decade. This event could potentially cause trillions of dollars’ worth of damage and take up to a decade to recover from.
Such an extreme event is considered to be relatively rare. The last gigantic solar storm, known as the Carrington Event, occurred more than 150 years ago and was the most powerful such event in recorded history.
That a rival to this event might have a greater than 10 percent chance of happening in the next 10 years was surprising to space physicist Pete Riley, senior scientist at Predictive Science in San Diego, California, who published the estimate in Space Weather on Feb. 23.
Comment: That is quite a quote: 'It's like being able to see a cyclone coming but not knowing the wind speed until it hits your boat 50 miles off the coast.' This is from the abstract of the paper:
On the probability of occurrence of extreme space weather events
In this study, we analyze several measures of the severity of space weather events (flare intensity, coronal mass ejection speeds, Dst, and >30 MeV proton fluences as inferred from nitrate records) to estimate the probability of occurrence of extreme events.
By showing that the frequency of occurrence scales as an inverse power of the severity of the event, and assuming that this relationship holds at higher magnitudes, we are able to estimate the probability that an event larger than some criteria will occur within a certain interval of time in the future. For example, the probability of another Carrington event (based on Dst < -850 nT) occurring within the next decade is ~12%. We also identify and address several limitations with this approach. In particular, we assume time stationarity, and thus, the effects of long-term space climate change are not considered.
How interesting, someone has admitted in print that there is an awareness "of long-term space climate change". Yes, what that means is that we can't use the past to predict the future because the properties of space have changed. As far as the Russians are concerned, there has been a change in the "transmitting" properties of space, which means that major blasts of space weather will provide more effective "zaps" or electrical shocks to Earth...
3 Via employees die in Ontario derailment
CBC News, 27th February 2012
Via Rail has confirmed that three of its employees, all in the locomotive section, died in a train derailment in the southern Ontario city of Burlington on Sunday afternoon.
"There's no question it's very tragic. We're a relatively small company, we're a family, we know everyone by name," said Via chief operating officer John Marginson, speaking to reporters at the scene.
"We certainly feel for the families of the colleagues that we lost," said Marginson, who added that there was no fuel leak at the site. The derailment involved five cars as well as the locomotive.
"It's very premature to speculate … but obviously something went very wrong," he said.
Comment: Two in a week.... here they are saying that it will take a year to investigate, why so long? This is a reminder because I have no evidence that this was caused by space weather.
Executive Summary
5. Space weather can also disrupt pipelines and railway signals
It can cause problems such as corrosion on pipelines and incorrect signal settings on railways. Again, there are means
to mitigate these effects, but they usually require keeping back-up systems, which adds to operational costs.
Rail transport
Railways show how technological change has increased
the risk from space weather. Steam trains from as little
as 50 years ago were not vulnerable to space weather, but
modern electric trains are. The most obvious vulnerability
of rail transport is the dependence of many routes on
electrical power. However, another emerging effect of
space weather on railways is that it can drive additional
currents in railway signalling systems (communicated via
the rails). [...] Recent studies of signalling problems in
Russia provide evidence of problems caused by the great
magnetic storms of 1989 and 2003, and they show how
the problem is growing as more routes adopt electric
signals.60 It is important that operators in all countries, and
not just those in the northern latitude, are aware of the
increased risk of space weather and the potential effect it
can have on the signal systems so that engineering staff
can monitor and resolve operational problems as quickly
as possible.
Space Weather, Its impact on Earth & Implications for business
Lloyd's of London, November 2010
Argentina train crash in Buenos Aires kills 49
BBC News, 23rd February 2012
"At least 49 people have been killed and more than 600 injured in the worst train crash in Argentina in 40 years, officials say."
Four injured as helicopter breaks up landing in Brazil
BBC News, 24th February 2012 Do not miss watching this!
"Officials believe the helicopter experienced ground resonance, which happens when the rotor is working while the helicopter is on a level surface."
Hmmmm.... Looks like the helicopter landed at a vortex point when energies were in some major flux... I don't see there is any other explanation...
Power failure forces reactor shutdown at Brunswick plant
Star News Online, 23rd February 2012
'Complacent' MoD Warned Of Space Risk [UK]
Sky News, 22nd February 2012
A space attack by a hostile country or terrorists could bring down the UK's power supply and the threat should be taken more seriously, the Ministry of Defence has been told.
If a nuclear device was detonated 500 miles above the earth, it could generate an electro-magnetic pulse which could wipe out electricity and telecommunications.
The Commons Defence Committee has accused the MoD of being "complacent" about the risks and wants it to ensure the UK's infrastructure could withstand an attack as a "matter of urgency"
The UK Defence Committee also warned a "space weather event" is more likely to take place and could have a similar effect.
According to the report, the Government currently considers the chances of this happening in the next five years to be "moderate to high".
Comment: Finally, the knives are coming out.... Enough people with something call a brain have realised that new measures need to be taken, it is a matter of self-preservation... Yes, they are warnings of a military attack as an excuse to get the funding, but the efforts of an itsy bitsy country like Iran is no comparison to the cosmic forces bearing down on planet Earth. For anyone new to space weather, please watch the August 2011 NASA video below to see why space scientists are shocked about the solar tsunamis coming from space.
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Spacecraft Sees Solar Storm Engulf Earth
NASA Science News, 18th August 2011
August 18, 2011: For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet. The movie, released today during a NASA press conference, has galvanized solar physicists, who say it could lead to important advances in space weather forecasting.
“The movie sent chills down my spine,” says Craig DeForest of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. "It shows a CME swelling into an enormous wall of plasma and then washing over the tiny blue speck of Earth where we live. I felt very small.”
UK vulnerable to 'space weather events' and space-fired weapons, say MPs
Defence committee report says government must approach threats with seriousness they deserve
The Guardian, 22nd February 2012
Britain is vulnerable to attack from space-fired nuclear weapons and "space weather" – the result of changes in solar activity – and the government is not doing enough to combat its potentially devastating impact, a cross-party group of MPs has warned.
The likelihood of a severe space weather event has "the potential to cause damage to electrically conducting systems such as power grids, pipelines and signalling circuits", says a report by the Commons defence committee, which also claims Britain would be vulnerable to attack from space-fired weapons.
It describes space weather as a "naturally occurring phenomenon that can impact upon the Earth's environment in ways that are detrimental to key technologies in operation in space, the atmosphere and the surface of the Earth".
Comment: It looks like more people are taking space weather much more seriously.... good! See archives for previous comments and links to major space weather reports, Best of the Blog Space Weather.
Britain at risk from 'GoldenEye' electromagnetic pulse attack from space Space Weather, MPs warn
The Telegraph, 22nd February 2012
Please spare us the James Bond fantasy stuff... FFS LET'S GET REAL!
Space Weather: Homeland Security takes on The Carrington Event
WUWT, 14th February 2012
While we worry about future threats like global warming, and present threats like Iran’s escalating nuclear program, the sun’s propensity for belching out monstrous solar flares (like the Carrington event of 1859) could almost instantly create a world without modern conveniences, or even electricity. The sun could literally “bomb us back to the stone age”.
Imagine a world without iPhones, and you’d understand why Homeland security rates New York and Seattle the highest for likelihood of major social unrest. Humans don’t do well in the dark. DHS has taken notice. [...]
The Department of Homeland Security has created this report on the issue, I’ve posted excerpts below.
Comment: The consequences of a major geomagnetic storm are far more serious that just losing the use of electronic gadgets... The only useful thing here is the link to the Department of Homeland Security paper which is dated 14th January 2011.
'Doomsday' scene stuns drivers in Russia
9 News, 7th February 2012
It looks like a scene from an apocalyptic film — the night sky illuminated by a massive ball of light as John Lennon's song "Imagine" plays on the radio.
The video, recorded on a dashboard camera in the Moscow region of Russia, shows the moment an electrical substation exploded in front of drivers on a busy highway.
Comment: I don't believe the official report of this being caused by a transformer but it's not hard to believe that a transformer might have been affected and blew up as a consequence, hence people losing their power... I believe this is the same phenomena that we have seen before in Forth Worth (Dallas), Japan. Portugal and Brazil and a few other places where the flashes of light turn the sky different colours. Here, the sudden blaze of light is nothing like a transformer fire (see YouTube) and I would even suggest it is closer to a quakelight except quakelights don't turn the sky into different colours as we saw spectacularly in Forth Worth and there was no associated earthquake. If you have not seen the Fort Worth video then you must to appreciate that something extraordinary is happening.... Well, can you imagine driving and being blinded by that kind of light... I am still wondering whether the term 'apocalytic' is appropriate but I suppose it is... This appears to be a new geophysical phenomenon but only if it can't be categorised as a new type of quakelight. For details of similar events go to, Best of the Blog - Space Weather, Electronics & Electromagnetic Chaos
The Bermuda Triangle... of Cambridgeshire: Villagers living near Army barracks locked out of their cars 'by mystery high-frequency radio waves' [UK]
Daily Mail, 3rd February 2012
Residents living near an Army barracks say their village green became a mysterious 'Bermuda Triangle' after their remote-control car door locks were by jammed by radio interference.
Motorists in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, say the locks on their cars refused to work when they parked at the village green.
Modern push-button ignitions were also scuppered by the unknown, eerie interference.
Radio experts first noticed the problem when they met in the village pub last week and discovered they were all locked out of their vehicles.
Some members of the group had to get lifts home and return with manual overrides.
Comment: I don't know why The Daily Mail reported: "This is the first time an English village has experienced mysterious electronics failures." This might be technically true but I think folk in the small town of Windermere might take exception to having their troubles ignored... see below: Whatever, it does seem like the frequency of similar electromagnetic inteference (EMI) events are increasing in the UK... See previous comments, but I think I will repeat the fact that I suspect that Army barracks, the same as airports are located at energy vortexes to improve communications... Hence, it conveniently hides what is really going on as torrents of energies continue to spiral down out of the sky. If you want to argue with this analysis, you need to show me a geomagnetic map with the locations of Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GIC) flow before I will change my mind. See also: Garage Door Openers Stop Working On Entire Missouri Block [US].
Mystery of the 'Windermere Triangle', where traffic lights decide whether cars unlock [UK]
Daily Mail, 12th February 2010
The black hole of Britain! Mystery as heating, doorbells and showers stop working in sleepy village (near 'top secret' military base)
Daily Mail, 5th January 2012
Natural Disasters, Space Weather and Aging Nuclear Reactors
Energy News, 1st February 2012
Comment: There seems to be two separate "minor" nuclear accidents taking place in the United States, California & Illinois. I had noticed but it's hard sorting out the really terrible nuclear news from the just bad nuclear news and sometimes I just can't be bothered... As usual there are all sorts of reassurances that everything is wonderful but the truth dribbles out eventually...I was particularly interested in the fact that Illinois lost both powerlines with electricity coming from two different directions, Notice – Byron, Illinois Nuke In Trouble which is apparently hard to comprehend until I found out there had been a rare earthquake, Rare quake hits near troubled Illinois nuke plant releasing radioactive steam — “That’s right, she said earthquake” (VIDEO) Pipes are already old and then all it takes is a little rumble in the ground... The reactor at San Diego, California is a developing story and it looks like leaking pipes caused an automatic shutdown and some leak of radiation..., see AP: Many tubes found damaged at San Diego-area nuke plant — “Unusual” says NRC — Cause unknown — Radiation could have escaped… Developing. The comments here are from people who are generally very interested/concerned about what is talking place...
Earthquake threat to nuclear reactors far higher than realized
MSNBC News, 2nd September 2011
Local Paper: “News could be catastrophic for San Onofre” nuke plant in Calif. — Over 800 tubes show damage — Multiple pipes may have burst — Still can’t determine size of leak
Energy News, 2nd February 2012
The lunatics ARE running the asylum...
Earth in for bumpy ride as solar storms hit
New Scientist, 1st February 2012
Editorial: "No room for complacency over solar storms"
THE sun is gearing up for a peak in activity at a time when technology makes our planet more vulnerable to solar outbursts than ever before. Monitoring has improved since the last solar maximum, so what are the big risks this time around?
About once every 11 years, the sun goes ballistic, throwing out more bursts of magnetic activity than normal. As a large but harmless solar flare signalled last week, the next solar maximum is due in 2013. [...]
We can take some comfort in the knowledge that the looming maximum is supposed to be relatively weak, but we shouldn't be complacent. In 1859, during an otherwise weak cycle, a solar storm made telegraph wires spark, starting fires. "You've got the opportunity for flares, and they can be big ones," warns David Hathaway of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Comment: It's not really the whole story.... Again there is a mention of the 1859 Carrington Event without a direct comparison between previous cycles where there has been some lethal activity, but some solar scientists have spent a lot of time trying to see if there are any correlations... I have written many comments on this subject. In 1859, there were not hundreds of nuclear power stations that need to be powered by electricity 24/7 with only 4-8 hours of diesel engine backups. I am now tired from flogging a dead horse. Please read the archives if you want to know more.
Power-Grid Cyber Attack Seen Leaving Millions in Dark for Months
Bloomberg News, 1st February 2012
400 Chernobyls: Solar Flares, EMP, and Nuclear Armageddon
When Tech Fails, January 2012
This is NOT about scaring people. This is explaining that as our world faces massive changes to the environment due to the new phenomena of space weather, things cannot stay the same. Please note: NASA says there is virtually nothing on the planet that is NOT affected by space weather.
Cosmic rays blamed for Phobos-Grunt fiasco
Space probe apparently not built to fly in space
The Register, 1st February 2012
Russian space boffins have come up with a new reason to explain why duff Martian probe Phobos-Grunt fell out of the sky - cosmic rays.
The head of space agency Roscosmos said that an investigation into the short-lived spacecraft had discovered that radiation caused a glitch in the onboard computer system, state news agency RIA Novosti reported.
"Two components of the onboard computer system were spontaneously rebooted and it switched into a standby mode," Vladimir Popovkin said. "The most likely reason [for this] is the impact of heavy charged space particles."
Comment: I am finding this version of the news from Russia hard to believe and so do others! The assumption is that the "impact of heavy charged space particles" means cosmic rays... Well, it does not matter, this was a spacecraft on the way to Mars through the Van Allen Belts and it could not even get out of Earth orbit due to space radiation... Hmmm.....
Planes expected to reroute following massive solar eruption
Fox News, 23rd January 2012
An immense blast of plasma spewed late Sunday night from the sun led to the strongest radiation storm bombarding our planet since 2005, and a rare warning from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency -- and even a plan to redirect certain high-flying airplanes.
NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center -- the nation’s official source of warnings about space weather and its impact on Earth -- issued a watch for a geomagnetic storm expected to hit our planet Tuesday morning after a satellite witnessed an ultraviolet flash from the massive solar eruption, according to Spaceweather.com.
Comment: Radio communications must be bad most likely due to the proton storm being a long duration event and then we have a fast CME arriving soon too...
Biggest solar storm in six years
Stuff.co.nz, 24th January 2012
"The radiation in the form of protons came flying out of the sun at 93 million miles per hour. "The whole volume of space between here and Jupiter is just filled with protons and you just don't get rid of them like that," Biesecker said. That's why the effects will stick around for a couple days."
Indian teacher stunned by $10bln bank balance
Yahoo News, 20th January 2012
An Indian high school teacher, with a monthly salary of around $700, was astounded when a routine online check of his bank account showed a balance of almost $10 billion.
Parijat Saha, from the town of Balurghat in West Bengal state, said he had checked his State Bank of India account online last Sunday to confirm reception of a 10,000 rupee ($200) interest payment.
"Instead I saw this astronomical amount," he told AFP by telephone.
The account showed a balance of 496 billion rupees.
Comment: I am sure someone would have noticed eventually.... But this must have been a stray cosmic ray causing a bit flip. Something that will continue to get worse as the cosmic radiation from space continues to flood our world and affect unshielded electronics.
Costa Concordia captain's detour to please waiter flagged on Facebook
Herald Sun, 19th January 2012
[...] Amid news of the difficult rescue, it emerged that the captain of the stricken Costa Concordia allegedly performed a 'sail-by' stunt for a staff member that was flagged on Facebook.
And while the human drama unfolded inside the Costa Concordia's wrecked remains, crews outside installed anti-spill booms to prevent a possible ecological disaster resulting from the fully-fueled ship hitting rocks near the island of Giglio and then slumping on its side.
Dangerous detour flagged on Facebook
What caused the 17-deck behemoth carrying more than 4000 passengers and crew to veer into the barrier Friday night has not been positively determined.
But the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported that the captain, Francesco Schettino, allegedly performed a 'sail-by' close to Giglio's rocky shores to please his head waiter, Antonello Tievoli, 46, who comes from the island. [...]
"That's enough, we have to stop treating these ships like they were simple vaporetti," said Clini, referring to the boats that ply the canals of Venice.
Comment: This is a good status update... Basta! The Italians will understand the sentiment.... If this is true then the captain might have sailed to close to the island and hit an unchartered rock.... a massive fail based on expecting GPS to be 100% accurate which it is not....
Costa Concordia Passenger: Titanic Theme Played As Ship Hit Rocks
Huffington Post, 18th January 2012
Accusations that captain left ship early investigated [Updates]
MSNBC News, 15th January 2012
Summary: Two of the 129 Americans who escaped injury when a submerged rock brought down a cruise ship shortly after departing an Italian port Friday tell TODAY's Lester Holt that the crew appeared was unprepared and unsure about emergency procedures.
Updated at 10:40 a.m. ET:
Two more bodies were recovered from the capsized Italian cruise ship, raising the official death toll to 5, as investigators looked into accusations that the captain abandoned ship early.
The bodies were recovered by divers at the emergency gathering point near a restaurant area. Fifteen people are still unaccounted for.
Updated at 10:10 a.m. ET:
Two survivors of the Italian cruise ship that hit a reef are among those who said the captain abandoned ship early. A prosecutor earlier said he's investigating those allegations.
Comment: This is quite an emotional report. What else can I say, GPS is unreliable. It does not matter if you are driving a car or steering a massive ship or even an oil tanker at sea, you cannot take GPS for granted (see previous horror stories of people driving into lakes etc, tankers with holes etc), but if you steering a ship or a tanker and are in a narrow navigation channel, it is especially important to pay attention. If people bother to look, they will find there are a lot of documents detailing the problems with GPS caused by space weather and warnings by the military. The UK military have even started to do military exercises without GPS and boaters are being warned to learn how to use a compass again because they cannot rely on GPS. Since most people don't seem to be interested in reality, I suppose we can expect more of the same.
Italy cruise ship Costa Concordia aground near Giglio [VIDEO]
BBC News, 14th January 2012
Three people are confirmed dead after a cruise ship carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground off Italy.
There were scenes of panic as the Costa Concordia hit a sandbar on Friday evening near the island of Giglio and listed about 20 degrees.
Most people reached land by lifeboats but some swam to shore.
At least 50 people have not yet been accounted for, Italian officials say, but they caution that the passenger list may not be fully up to date.
Coast guard vessels are combing the waters around the ship, while divers are searching the submerged decks.
Comment: My first thought was space weather due to the many different reports but the photos provided by the Daily Mail and talk of an electrical failure may imply other scenarios. So far, we have conflicting reports that do not make sense, how can hitting a sandbar cause a 30m hole? The Daily Mail photo has a caption "Rocks embedded in the ruptured side of the Costa Concordia reveal the extent of the damage to the hull" here, and that is a lot more like it..... If the electronics failed then why was the cruise ship left crippled to run aground by hitting rocks? What caused such a massive ship to destabalise? At the moment there are two scenarios: 1. A complete GPS fail or 2. The ship might have had it's electronics knocked out by an natural electromagnetic pulse. In the Daily Mail photo center right here you can see what looks like some kind of some kind of vent of bubbles or even signs of a volcanic eruption. We do know that there are electrical discharges are associated with volcanic eruptions and this will explain the sound of a boom too. So, possibly when the electronics were knocked out, the ship drifted into the rocks. Whatever, I still think the captain will be blamed in either case because he should have known they were too close to underwater rocks from his experience of being in this location and the ship turning over. At the moment, I am assuming this was not any kind of human sabotage and just the cruise ship was in the wrong place and the wrong time. Due to the serious ebb and flow of cosmic and terrestrial energies on our planet, we can expect chaos.
Dozens of passengers 'still missing' and three dead after luxury cruise liner carrying 4,200 people capsizes off the coast of Italy [PHOTOS]
Daily Mail, 14th January 2012
UK News Report:
Italy's Costa Concordia: 'People started to panic'
YouTube, 14th January 2012
This ship worker tells us that people behaved attrociously and started to push and shove to get on the lifeboats as people wanted what THEY wanted. People could not wait for the lifeboats and jumped into the water and then had to wait to be rescued hence risking heart attacks, broken bones, hyperthermia and drowning. There was no interest in women and children first..... In a society of people with the mentality of it's all about ME, ME, & *ç%"+ ME, that should be no surprise.
Dozens Missing After Cruise Ship Capsize [Sky News Video]
Sky News, 14th January 2012
Still unbelievable.... In the 2nd report here the presenter asks the question about the navigation systems.... As I have been stating for at least 3 years. Normal GPS is becoming unusable due to space weather.
Power outage in Turkey affects millions
MSNBC News, 14th January 2012
ISTANBUL — A Turkish state-run news agency says a power outage has left millions without electricity in Istanbul and five other cities. [So how many millions affected is that?]
On Saturday, Istanbul — a city of more than 12 million — was left without heating or electricity for several hours, and its subway and tram system were closed down.
The Anadolu Agency, quoting unnamed officials, said the outage was due to the breakdown of a power transformer near the northwestern city of Bursa. It said the cities of Sakarya, Kocaeli, Tekirdag, Kirklareli and Edirne were also affected.
Comment: I suspect Turkish power grid operators are not watching out for space weather induced dangers.... News of the Imbalance long termers will realise that there tend to be clusters of certain types of accidents and news events that can be associated with space weather and the Earth's magnetosphere being in poor shape. As I have already explained, I have been watching the NICT magnetosphere simulations and I was surprised with the news of the C-class solar flare disturbing radio communications. Now there are reports of strange sounds (I have not bothered to list all the reports), so I am assuming that geomagnetic currents were induced and knocked out a major transformer.... . Check the NICT movies, the magnetosphere has been flooded with energy in the last week on and off. I have been checking NASA's Integrated Space Weather Analysis system (ISWA) and the magnetosphere standoff was hit on the 12th and then again on the 13th (see below). According to NASA; "Under quiet condition the magnetopause is 10 RE to 12 RE away from Earth." So reaching 8 RE is not so bad, as hitting geosynchronous orbit at 6.6 RE is considered dangerous for satellites. RE = Earth Radii
Power Grid Failure: Severe Storms Led To Sewage Spills Across State [US]
The Hartford Courant, 31st December 2011
While power outages during Tropical Storm Irene and the October snowstorm left much of the state in the dark, they had a less-publicized but possibly more damaging result — millions of gallons of raw sewage spilled into waterways throughout Connecticut when backup power systems failed at waste treatment plants.
The 47 spills reported to the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, ranged from 42.7 million gallons of partially treated sewage dumped into Long Island Sound in Stamford to 250 gallons of raw sewage poured into the Farmington River in Simsbury. The reports were filed to the DEEP during the two storms so state officials could monitor possible environmental issues.
Nearly all of the spills were caused either by flooding during the tropical storm or by power failures coupled with malfunctioning backup generators.
Comment: Just a little of the expected chaos when the electricity power grid disappears.
Man wins £37m fruit machine jackpot... but is offered £60 and a free meal instead
Daily Mail, 12th December 2011
A gambler who thought he had won £37million on a fruit machine has been offered a free meal and £60 instead, after casino bosses said the jackpot was due to a ‘software error’.
Behar Merlaku, 26, played the winning machine at a casino in Bregenz, Austria.
Despite only getting four of the slot machine's five required matches, Mr Merlaku was told he had won the massive jackpot - complete with a winning bell and flashing screen.
However when he went to claim his prize, the Swiss player was instead offered the money and meal by casino bosses after they refused to pay out.
Now the disgruntled 26-year-old is to launch a lawsuit in Austria next month to force the casino to honour the 'win', which Mr Merlaku's lawyers says he is entitled to because of the what machine said.
Comment: This seems to happen on a regular basis, someone woman thought she had won $42 million, which was reported in March 2010.... Was this caused by another stray cosmic ray switching bits and bytes?
Stormy sun could knock out power grids: report
Yahoo (Au) News, 3rd December 2011
LONDON (Reuters) - An upcoming cycle of stormy solar activity risks causing damage to electrical transformers and threatening vulnerable energy infrastructure around the globe, a report by an insurance group says.
The sun follows a predictable 11 year activity cycle, with the next period of stormy activity expected to begin in 2012-13.
The report by German insurance group Allianz said a high impact solar storm, not easily predicted due to its recorded rarity, could cause blackouts and economic losses of over $1 trillion and that the worst case scenario would be even worse.
"What we're coming into at the moment is the bad (space)weather period," Jim Wild of Britain's Lancaster University, an expert in solar plasma physics, told Reuters.
Comment: I believe this is the third major insurer that has put out a report to major companies and businesses warning about Space Weather. Here is the Allianz info: Space Weather Risk and here is their version of this article as a .pdf, Space Weather Risk (.pdf). I can't find a dedicated Space Weather Report, but I think the article might be referring to the Allianz Power Blackout Risks with a section on Space Weather. The report states:
“Whereas short term power blackouts are experienced frequently on a local or regional level around the world
(e.g. caused by natural catastrophe events like earthquakes, storms, floods or heat waves), societies are not familiar
with large scale, long-lasting, disruptive power blackouts. Traditional scenarios only assume blackouts for a few days
and losses seem to be moderate, but if we are considering longer lasting blackouts, which are most likely from space
weather or coordinated cyber or terrorist attacks, the impacts on society and economy might be significant.”
Power Blackout Risks (Space Weather), Allianz, November 23rd 2011 (.pdf)
The mainstream are getting the practical implications, but so far, the metaphysical community as a whole don't seem to have a great deal of interest in the spiritual implications of the planet being swamped with celestial energies.
If Turning On A Kindle Could Crash An Airplane, Wouldn't Terrorists Do It?
Business Insider, 28th November 2011
New York Times tech writer Nick Bilton is sick of having to turn off his Kindle and iPad during takeoffs and landings.
He hasn't found any proof that they are actually dangerous.
Neither has the FAA. A spokesman says a 2006 study revealed "there was no evidence saying these devices can’t interfere with a plane, and there was no evidence saying that they can.”
Comment: I think this is a good question. Personally, I think it is useful to maintain the myth of cell phones and electronic gadgets that could cause electromagnetic interference just in case there is a real incident where cosmic rays are suspected. Airlines don't want passengers realising that they are vulnerable to space weather and cosmic radiation even though this is a threat that is growing worse.
Defense science panel: climate Space weather a national security threat
USA Today, 14th November 2011
The Defense Department's highly-regarded science panel is calling for the U.S. military to improve intelligence-gathering related to climate change.
"Climate change has the potential for significant impacts on all three of the basic elements important to national and international security: defense, diplomacy and economics," says the Defense Science Board report. Particularly in Africa, the report warns of increasing challenges to national security caused by global warming.
The National Academy of Science has concluded that climate change, largely driven by fossil fuel use releasing greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, has led to a 1.4 degree increase in average global surface temperatures over the last century, and will likely drive a 2 to 11 degree increase in the next century, depending on the size of future emissions.
Comment: I changed the title to reflect the true issue... as even GPS is becoming useless for military purposes, see archives for more info...
Mystery fault strands cars at Tesco
Yorkshire Post, 8th November 2011
Electrical interference at a supermarket petrol station is forcing drivers to push their cars off the forecourt as it causes chaos by immobilising their vehicles. Motorists filling up at Tesco in Clifton Moor, York, have been left puzzled by the mysterious defect, which is leaving some drivers unable to start the engine.
But strangely, the problem, which has been reccurring for over six weeks, stops as soon as cars are pushed off the forecourt.
Martyn Lamb, 54, has been having trouble while filling up his Ford Focus since September.
Comment: In the archives, there are at least one other example of a zone in the UK where there are major issues with electromagnetic interference EMI, that could be natural (energy portals) or a more mundane artificial cause. To be honest, it amazes me with the high levels of EM pollution that there are not more problems. What's more as energy levels rise across the planet, we can expect more of the same kind of issues.
Twitter storm as HSBC systems crash affects millions across UK
Daily Mail, 4th November 2011
SBC was today hit by a nationwide systems crash thought to have affected millions of customers.
The bank's cash machines, branches, debit cards, and internet banking services all stopped working at 2.45pm after a computer glitch.
The outage lasted more than two hours, with frantic HSBC staff finally finding a fix at 4.50pm.
Earlier, a Twitter storm erupted with worried customers saying they could not withdraw money from HSBC cash machines and their cards had been declined in shops.
Comment: Oh well, we did have an X2 solar flare that would have affected Earth's atmosphere and Earth's magnetic shielding (magnetosphere) is in quite poor shape these days... Well, since so many major banks are having problems with their technology (see link below), we can only presume that the electromagnetic smog combined with cosmic rays and cosmic radiation is now starting to have quite a detrimental effect... It is most likely that due to space weather and Earth's weakening defences, things are likely to get far worse and if modern society is going to survive we need to do things very differently in the future.
Solar flare could unleash nuclear holocaust across planet Earth, forcing hundreds of nuclear power plants into total meltdowns
Earth Matters, 26th October 2011
(Natural News) Forget about the 2012 Mayan calendar, comet Elenin or the Rapture. The real threat to human civilization is far more mundane, and it's right in front of our noses. If Fukushima has taught us anything, it's that just one runaway meltdown of fissionable nuclear material can have wide-ranging and potentially devastating consequences for life on Earth. To date, Fukushima has already released 168 times the total radiation released from the Hiroshima nuclear bomb detonated in 1945, and the Fukushima catastrophe is now undeniably the worst nuclear disaster in the history of human civilization.
But what if human civilization faced a far greater threat than a single tsunami destroying a nuclear power facility? What if a global tidal wave could destroy the power generating capacities of all the world's power plants, all at once?
Such a scenario is not merely possible, but factually inevitable. And the global tidal wave threatening all the nuclear power plants of the world isn't made of water but solar emissions.
Comment: I actually blogged the original version of this article but a Dutch friend sent me this new link. As part of my response I wrote:
"...we have created a nightmare on this planet by our total reliance on electricity and national power grids that are now vulnerable to space weather. This scenario does not have to happen, but at the moment, most people are not taking Space Weather seriously enough. It was only 1 month ago exactly that there was a CME that created ground currents in Norway and the last warning came 44 minutes from when the ACE satellite picked up the blast and for the CME to travel the last 1 million miles to hit our planet. How hard is it to comprehend that the planet is being 'zapped' by the sun?"
For those who are new to this website, PLEASE watch Perfect Disaster: Solar Storm (2006), as this documentary-drama explains the signs that tell us that space weather is getting much worse. Then you will know a little more about why we have had some amazing auroras, 2 satellites dropping out of their orbits within a month of each other, why satellites are malfunctioning, why mobile phone networks sometimes fail, why GPS is failing, why there are so many computer glitches, why there are so many electrical transformers blowing up, why there are so many more blackouts, why there are so many pipeline leaks and explosions, etc... My message has always been about a need to wake up and start changing how we do business on this planet because the conditions in space have changed dramatically and our cosy little existence on Earth cannot stay the same. What's more, humans are electromagnetic so we are being affected by the chaotic electromagnetic and geomagnetic environment. Further major reports from space agencies, governments and big business can be found at Best of the Blog -
Space Weather
& Best of the Blog Space Weather & Electromagnetic Chaos
MoD Halts GPS Jamming After Safety Complaints
Eweek Europe, 11th October 2011
A huge naval exercise has been banned from using GPS jamming technology after safety complaints
A major naval exercise off the coast of Scotland has been ordered to stop using GPS jamming technology after complaints it is endangering the lives of fishermen and is disrupting mobile phones.
The Nato exercise, dubbed ‘Joint Warrior’, involves the military forces from 14 countries and is taking place off the west coast of Scotland.
As part of the operation, Global Positioning System (GPS) services were jammed in a radius of 20 miles around the various warships. GPS Jamming. Apparently, the Royal Navy had issued warnings last month and in early October that GPS in parts of Scotland would be disrupted during the naval exercise.
But according to the BBC, Western Isles fishermen said the first they knew was when their equipment went offline last Friday. And it seems that the military’s GPS jamming also impacted mobile phones, Internet connectivity as well as satellite TV.
Following the fisherman’s complaints, the jamming of GPS has been suspended, and the Royal Navy said the military would seek to address safety concerns.
Comment: If you have read enough space weather reports written by military and civilian organisations, you will find that space weather has the ability to jam satellite signals and create false signals coming from satellites, that in affect are the equivalent of terrorist jamming. In an article for the Air Force Times, Schwartz warns against dependence on GPS, dated 23rd January 2010, and it seems there has been a major change of heart about the military use of GPS. This is a new dispensation, dependency on GPS accuracy is now a thing of the past.
The Air Force’s top uniformed leader thinks the military is too dependent on global positioning and must develop an alternative to the navigation system to reduce its vulnerability to enemies.
Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz delivered his warning about the government’s satellite constellation Jan. 20 at a national security conference in Washington but also assured his fellow defense leaders that Air Force scientists are working to develop other navigational technologies.
“Global positioning has transformed an entire universe of war-fighting capability. Our dependence on precision navigation in time will continue to grow,” Schwartz said in the opening address to the conference, sponsored by the Institute of Foreign Policy and Tufts University’s Fletcher School. “It seemed critical to me that the joint force reduce its dependence on GPS aid.” [...]
Schwartz told the audience he fears reliance on GPS could paralyze operations if an enemy blocked the GPS datalink or — even worse — programmed U.S. satellites to send the wrong coordinates.
“Our operations cannot grind to a halt for a degraded or denied system,” he said. “Our reliance on information technologies, for example, is very well known.”
Schwartz warns against dependence on GPS, Air Force Times, 23rd January 2010
I have already quoted from the Lloyds Space Weather, Its impact on Earth & Implications for business report already once this week, but I will repeat it again, hopefully after the recent media focus on space weather in the last few weeks, I believe there must be some new website visitors who would be interested to understand the implications of what is happening. Thus we read:
Businesses should avoid reliance on satellite navigation as the sole source of position data.
"The major risk is the potential to lose the satellite navigation signal completely. We expect that disturbed space weather conditions will become much more common in the period from 2012 to 2015 due to increasing solar activity. Therefore it is likely users will experience a loss of signal more often. In such cases, we may expect major position errors to arise, perhaps comparable to those caused by the transmission of competing radio signals, known as jamming. For example, a recent jamming test in the UK showed position errors of up to 20km. Businesses should avoid reliance on satellite navigation as the sole source of position data. It is essential to have a second system that uses a different technology. A good example is the enhanced-LORAN navigation systems, such as that now being deployed in the UK."
Space Weather, Its impact on Earth & Implications for business
Lloyd's of London, November 2010
Please do not be fooled, space weather IS the biggest enemy to Military operations and hence the encouragement to start learning how to do without, hence the need for military exercises. Space weather is cosmic energies frying satellites and swamping our planet, it is clear that things are getting far worse, as there has been some interesting examples of major technological failures, see archives, but please note: I have been listing biological failures too for quite some time.
BlackBerry outage blamed on 'extremely critical' network failure (Video)
CNN News, 12th October 2011
(CNN) -- Millions of BlackBerry users remained without service on Wednesday as a three-day service outage spread to North America, causing massive frustrations for people who rely on these smartphones for business and personal communications.
"BlackBerry subscribers in the Americas may be experiencing intermittent service delays this morning," Research in Motion, maker of BlackBerry smartphones, said in a statement. "We are working to resolve the situation as quickly as possible and we apologize to our customers for any inconvenience. We will provide a further update as soon as more information is available."
The outage now affects people on every continent but Antarctica, according to the company's statements. [...]
There are about 70 million BlackBerry users worldwide. RIM has not commented on how many users are affected, but reports suggest the number of users without some sort of service has climbed into the millions.
Comment: I have to say this is now impressive.... I thought the Blackberry phone with an image of lightening was quite appropriate...
BlackBerry outage day three: RIM explains what went wrong
Silicon.com, 12th October 2011
It's amazing how many of these major embarrassing service outages are blamed on software upgrade failures. I have worked as an analyst in large computer installations, there are procedures that are supposed to eliminate this kind of failure. This is one of the reasons why I simply can't believe the explanations that are being given to the media. I can presume that the issues are really related to corrupted software/hardware (due to cosmic rays switching bits and bytes) that cannot be easily detected until something goes dreadfully wrong and be dealt with quickly due to the fact that the corruption has duplicated itself in some way.... I could be wrong but so far, nothing I have read provides an adequate explanation.
Softbank Server Glitch Damps iPhone 4S Launch
Wall Street Journal, 14th October 2011
"It’s usually a jubilant day for design-sensitive tech geeks and Softbank Corp. whenever a new Apple Inc. product hits store shelves, but a technical glitch damped enthusiasm Friday. [...] The launch of the iPhone 4S in Japan was interrupted when Softbank – the main service provider for Apple products in the country—suffered a server glitch that temporarily suspended sales nationwide. A company spokesman said the servers were unable to process registration information."
The techie blues has hit again!
'I'm switching to iPhone': Fury spreads as BlackBerry glitch rolls into third day in Europe, Middle East and Africa
Daily Mail, 12th October 2011
# Sir Alan Sugar: 'In all my years in IT biz, I have never seen such a outage as experienced by Blackberry. I can't understand why it's taking so long to fix'
# BlackBerry spokesperson refuses to confirm how many of its 70million users were affected
# Jokes emerge on Twitter at firm's expense: 'What did one BlackBerry user say to the other Blackberry user? Nothing'
BlackBerry users in the UK were hit with service disruptions to their smartphones for a third successive day after an unexplained glitch cut off Internet and messaging services.
Sir Alan Sugar tweeted, 'In all my years in IT biz, I have never seen such a outage as experienced by Blackberry. I can't understand why it's taking so long to fix.'
Former political spin doctor Alastair Campbell said, 'Some free advice. Explain while you fix. Apologise when you have. Recompense after.'
BlackBerry's official UK account, meanwhile, stated 'Message delays were caused by a core switch failure in RIM's infrastructure. Sincerely sorry but now being resolved' - despite the fact that widespread reports say that the problems are still occurring.
BlackBerry has not explained why back-up systems have failed to solve the fault, or why it has repeatedly assured customers the fault had been fixed when it has clearly not.
Comment: Well, Earth's magnetic field is breaking down (see the lastest magnetosphere images) and we have less protection against cosmic rays because the ionosphere has lowered dramatically too... (The solar wind flagging, which is another level of defence that is declining too), so, people need to start realising that our modern technological world is no longer going to work smoothly... Switching smartphones is not the answer because all companies that rely on computer installations and data centres will be having the same type of problems. It will be random hits that just keep occuring... I agree with Sir Alan Sugar, I can't understand why this outage is taking so long to fix and reminds me of the recent Amazon Cloud problems, see archives. At the moment, all the warnings coming from the space agencies and insurance companies about understanding the impact of space weather does not seem to have filtered down to enough people. Really, I need a technical assessment, but techies prefer to talk and explain what happened long after all the heat has dissipated...
Second outage deepens BlackBerry crisis
Millions of BlackBerry mobile users endured a second day without access to the internet on Tuesday, despite a claim by the firm behind the smartphone brand it had “restored” online services in the wake of a similar collapse on Monday.
The Telegraph, 11th October 2011
"When RIM publicly acknowledged the second failure, at around 4pm, it revealed that users in India, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina were also cut off from online services. “Some users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, India, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina are experiencing messaging and browsing delays,” RIM said in a statement. “We are working to restore normal service as quickly as possible. We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused.” "
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Massive Solar Blast this afternoon? Oct. 11
YouTube, 11th October 2011
"Solar Blast with 7 hours of video Missing."
This is just weird and I don't know if it is related, but 7 hours of missing data is suspicious, I believe that something very interesting happened, but I think it is related to the properties of space and not specifically anything strange with the Sun... This is strange, I have just find this at extinctionprotocol.com but apparently it was taken from spaceweather.com.
More turbulence ahead? The farside region of the Sun where a monstrous explosion occurred is rotating Earthward. We’ve also noticed sunspot clusters have also formed in larger patches on the Sun over the last few weeks. Growing sunspot 1313 is crackling with C-class solar flares. A solar wind stream flowing from the indicated coronal hole should reach Earth on Oct. 15th. –
Spaceweather.com 11th October 2011
Below is the NOAA/U.S. Air Force summary for 11th Oct.
# Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA,
# Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force.
#
Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity
SDF Number 284 Issued at 2200Z on 11 Oct 2011
IA. Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity from 10/2100Z
to 11/2100Z: Solar activity has been at very low levels for the past
24 hours. Region 1313 (S15W13) remains the most magnetically complex
region, but has failed to produce any notable activity. Early in
the period, two new regions rotated onto the visible disk, around
the southeast limb, and were numbered as Region 1316 (S12E56) and
Region 1317 (S26E68).
SWPC Solar Activity Report and Forecast updated daily at 22:00.
NYSE Recovers From Fire at NJ Data Center
12160.info, 10th October 2011
The New York Stock Exchange says it expects a normal trading day after a small fire Sunday at its data center in Mahwah, New Jersey, which supports computer systems that are critical to the U.S. financial markets. The NYSE says the incident briefly interrupted connectivity for some customers, but should have no impact on its trading operations for Monday.
“On Sunday, there was an isolated electrical fire that was quickly extinguished within a single computer cabinet at our Mahwah data center,” the NYSE said in a statement. “The incident, which resulted in no injuries, affected communications connectivity to 58 customers who have been notified that we are testing all systems and expect completely normal operations for Monday’s market open.”
The 400,000 square foot data center in Mahwah serves as the nerve center for the NYSE”s electronic trading operations. The facility is staffed around the clock by employees trained to respond to electrical fires and other emergencies. Like most major data centers, the NYSE facility has systems that monitor temperature in data halls and provide alerts in the event of sudden changes. Data centers also are equipped with sensitive fire detection systems triggered by the presence of smoke or heat, which tie into fire suppression systems.
Comment: I know there is a focus on Anonymous making threats, but the thing about Anonymous is that it is anonymous and any Tom, Dick and Harry can make a threat and nobody is non the wiser... Anyway, I am more interested in these electrical fires that seem to be hitting at random, because it seems that the source of these electrical fires does not seem to have any interest in the financial standing of the owners... Well, with the breaks and breaches in the magnetosphere, I am quite sure managers of important electrical installations should "Expect Us..."
Canadian Satellite Malfunction Leaves Thousands Without Communications
Space.com, 7th October 2011
A satellite malfunction left thousands of people across parts of rural northern Canada without communications services and grounded dozens of flights Thursday (Oct. 6), according to Canadian press reports.
Officials with the Ottawa-based satellite operator Telesat Canada said the malfunction began at 6:36 a.m. EDT (1036 GMT), when its Anik F2 communications satellite suffered a "technical anomaly." The glitch affected satellite-served communities in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut territory, according to Canadian communications provider Northwestel.
Comment: Well, the Earth's magnetosphere was breached and so filled up with particles (image left) but not enough to push the boundary between Earth's magnetic field (magnetospause) and outer space to geosynchronous orbit (image right), which then becomes a major problem with satellites being exposed to galactic cosmic rays. Whatever, conditions in space were hostile enough to cause a software glitch with the Anik F2 satellite.
UPDATE 4: Telesat satellite malfunctions
Ottawa Business Journal, 6th October 2011
Ottawa firm hopes to restore service late Thursday
Thousands of Canadians are without telephone, cable and Internet service following a malfunction on a Telesat-owned-and-operated satellite.
A problem on Anik F2 knocked out northern long-distance telephone and Internet service in 56 northern satellite communities starting just after 6:30 a.m. Thursday.
Cable television service on the satellite is also disrupted across the country, including customers for Shaw Direct. The Canadian Press' wire service and data services for mining companies are similarly affected.
"There was an issue on the spacecraft, and it went into safe mode," said John Flaherty, a spokesperson for Telesat, in an OBJ interview.
"It shut itself down and turned itself towards the sun. The solar arrays can keep the batteries charged, and nothing happens to the spacecraft. We've been in contact with the satellite and are in the process of essentially rebooting it."
Engineers are hoping to bring it online by the end of Thursday, he added. This is the first outage Anik F2 has experienced since its launch in 2004.
"This type of thing rarely happens, and that's why it gets so much attention – because it's so rare and there are so many people affected by it."
Comment: This is a major problem because the general public get to find out that services that they take for granted are not guaranteed due to worsening conditions in space. Maybe, the use of the word 'rare' might refer to the satellite communication industry having to work very hard maintaining their services despite the challenges imposed by space weather and it's 'rare' that the general public become aware of the issues caused by space weather.
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