Cosmic Catastrophe

[aerohead]

As to Jupiter, that's off the table. I gave you the facts on that already. No connection!

[aerohead]

If you'll go to NASA, where Anton got all his data, and read their account ( hundreds of pages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), the story's a little different.
* satellites were not 'blinded'
* the event lasted over ten hours, not minutes
* it was 'among the most powerful' not THE most powerful
* the final results won't be around for awhile
* when the results ARE in, they'll be posted @ https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/w3Brow...ferigbrst.html
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There was a similar event discovered , 7:13 p.m., EDT, September 15, 2008, GRB 080916C, a one-pulse, and never seen again observation, from the same Fermi Large Area Telescope satellite package, 'the most powerful by all metrics.'
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Free nitrogen and free oxygen, in the thermosphere, are highly absorptive of gamma-ray.
The thermosphere heats up.
The thermosphere 'atmosphere' expands.
The thermopause rises.
Satellites are exposed to the expanded nitrogen, oxygen, and helium, and experience drag, otherwise not present.
Engineers just 'design' for it, add boosters to raise them back up, or Space-X is hired to go up and push them back up.
Presently, there are 38,000 satellites in the thermosphere, including the International Space Station.
Big whoopy!

[oil pan 4]

Planetary conjunctions and seismic events have been super busted since forever.

[freebeard]

Is that another way of saying 'low positive correlation'?

[aerohead]

For those who are not math averse:
https://www.google.com/search?q=maxi...hrome&ie=UTF-8

[freebeard]

It rains on the Moon!

www.nature.com: A solar wind-derived water reservoir on the Moon hosted by impact glass beads

Abstract
The past two decades of lunar exploration have seen the detection of substantial quantities of water on the Moon’s surface. It has been proposed that a hydrated layer exists at depth in lunar soils, buffering a water cycle on the Moon globally. However, a reservoir has yet to be identified for this hydrated layer. Here we report the abundance, hydrogen isotope composition and core-to-rim variations of water measured in impact glass beads extracted from lunar soils returned by the Chang’e-5 mission. The impact glass beads preserve hydration signatures and display water abundance profiles consistent with the inward diffusion of solar wind-derived water.... We estimate that the amount of water hosted by impact glass beads in lunar soils may reach up to 2.7 × 1014 kg. Our direct measurements of this surface reservoir of lunar water show that impact glass beads can store substantial quantities of solar wind-derived water on the Moon and suggest that impact glass may be water reservoirs on other airless bodies.

[freebeard]

Here's why that is important.

Asteroid Mining: The Future Or the End of the World Economy?

Bringing Platinum to the bottom of the gravity well would crash the economy, but putting water in Earth orbit would do that just as well.

11:46 ...another space-minded
11:49 company focused on water has commercial
11:51 agreements already in place that value a
11:53 payload of just 100 tons of water at one
11:56 billion dollars upon its delivery in
11:59 orbit to Earth what that means is that
12:01 just five liters of water in space is
12:03 worth the same as a kilogram of gold on
12:06 earth and there are other more important
12:08 resources in asteroids too they promise
12:10 to be a plentiful source for the
12:12 critical helium needed to make things

[Piotrsko]

Saw this on hackaday, immediately thought of freebeard:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add1602

[freebeard]

Thanks.

So the person builds a house that will last as long as the pyramids, and the next thing someone perfects the flying car, and it doesn't have a helipad.

[freebeard]

Shuttle-era Secret Space Program woo: Colonies Already On The Moon? | The Secret Space Program! | The Conspiracy Show | S2E03

The reason I mention it is that at one point, there is the claim that magnetohydrodynamics research went dark in 1959. As it happens, that year I was in high school and I wrote a piece for the high school paper that was a humorous[?] riff on a slang term 'badder'. Badder was better than good, so I worked with the ambiguity.

Then I ended with "Magnetohydrodynamics: Not used in polite conversation".

That is now officially the first time I became a skeptic.