More extreme solar activity expected?

Pinball1970

Pinball1970

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The solar events that lead to the amazing Northern lights are not over according to this article.

We get some beautiful skies but there can be a down side, potentially affecting our infra structure.

phys.org

'Danger behind the beauty': More solar storms could be heading our way

Tourists normally have to pay big money and brave cold climates for a chance to see an aurora, but last weekend many people around the world simply had to look up to see these colorful displays dance across the sky.
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Some information of the phenomena here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora

The colours are via ionization of gases in our atmosphere, Oxygen and Nitrogen.
 
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"There were reports that some self-driving farm tractors in the United States stopped in their tracks when their GPS guidance systems went out due to the storm, he told AFP."​

They need to back that up with some form of AI navigation that can orient itself according to sensory recognition of details in its immediate environment. Cheaper I guess, but putting all the eggs into multi-vulnerable GNSS is kind of lazy/crazy to begin with (as time and military target worthiness accumulates).
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C C said:
"There were reports that some self-driving farm tractors in the United States stopped in their tracks when their GPS guidance systems went out due to the storm, he told AFP."​
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Really?? A joke? Or life imitating art?


Reference to Interstellar (2014):

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Pinball1970 said:
When I said damage to the infrastructure I was thinking, power grid disruption/damage, GPS and satellite disruption, not self driving killer trucks! I will keep it in mind though!
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Yah, one of the odder things mentioned as affected by GPS disruptions in the original article. But at least autonomous tractors are operating in fields, not in traffic like self-driving cars would eventually be doing.

Pinball1970 said:
Hope fully more of this.. (source https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/northern-lights-could-visible-northern-29206729)

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Beats normally having to travel to someplace like Greenland for the most spectacular displays. (Surely the only semblance of a tourist attraction they've got there, for the jetset.)
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