NASA & Space Weather
 

Just looked:
1) X-rays from flares observations with Min XSS satellite
2) Kp index ( disturbance to Earth's magnetosphere )
3) Solar Energetic Particles ( SEPs )
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Solar Flares were relegated to basically a footnote, with no specific importance implicated.

NASA tracking Space Weather
 

4) duckduckgo.com/?q=solar+filaments+and+prominences

How do you track 24 hour event horizon when it's just under 9 light minutes to the sun and if you detected it, it would arrive after the event did? At speed of light, the sensor would need to be past Jupiter to do 24 hours. Ask NASA how remote control works on Jupiter orbiting probes.

The light takes minutes, but the wind is variable, up to three days.

As an example, the eruption aimed right at us yesterday is expected to arrive on Thursday.

Is this the new climate space weather thread?

Top story at the moment on Slashdot:

news.slashdot.org/story/22/04/12/1818221/black-carbon-threat-to-arctic-as-sea-routes-open-up-with-global-heating
In other news, Amazon drones are crashing in Pendleton, OR, and starting brush fires. They flip over and come down in a fireball!

Unless they are being hit with birdshot pellets there is no sane reason for a flip and fireball. The nav system and flight controller preclude that and airborne battery fires are rare as tesla or Volt fires. Controller fails to off.

Maybe I could've made the link more prominent.

No you were specific enough. The actual Bloomberg article is different that your blurb.

The motor controller is a 3 phase H Bridge so if one phase fails the other 2 bridges burn out in rapid sucession unless they so overbuilt the power circuits that locked rotor conditions do not result in immediate over temp junction failures, OR, they are running brushed series DC which will overspeed on failure of the power circuits. And you have one set of these for each motor, once again unless they are doing massive shortcuts, because motor control gets squirrelly running two multiphase motors off one ESC. I could see the fireball scenario on over specced controllers or battery shorted conditions. Just like Volts catching fire when they get punctured and flipped over then sit in an impound lot for a week.

Something don't pass the sniff test. And they fly like aerioplanes, you dont switch from flight regimen to another, you gradually change it.

This might be Space Weather since it was caused by change in the speed of the Earth's rotation.

www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00418-5
edit: Via SlashDot: news.slashdot.org/story/22/04/13/2319208/melting-ice-caps-may-not-shut-down-ocean-current

So, the Beaufort Gyre may be toothless.

drones
 

NASA's website speaks of solar energetic particles (SEPs) capable of 'bit-flips' aboard satellites., where a 'zero' can become a 'one,' distorting communications.
SEPs cannot be predicted.
I'm not a drone expert, so I'll leave the explanations to them.

duckduckgo.com/?q=claude+shannon+information+theoryi&ia=web

Claude Shannon was the expert you're looking for.

bits and bytes
 

we were required to know that in 1976.

45 years later we have Cyclic Redundancy Checks and MD5 Hashes.

A podcast suggested bit flip was responsible for unintended acceleration issues. Apparently there was no redundancy to protect against the unlikely but potentially catastrophic occurances.

45-years later
 

Not something, either of which strikes me as actionable information.

unintended acceleration
 

It's never come to my attention that, 'unintended acceleration' had anything to do with real-time data down-feeds from space satellites exposed to space weather.
In the absence of a corrupting space weather environment, what would be the causal factor responsible for a bit-flip ?

What's your point. I never expected you to inform yourself.

point
 

Like the judge said, 'You already have all the information you need.'
There are things to actually do.
There is no time in my life left to explore such obtuse information, nor see any possible potential to act on either of those two items you shared.
Some things aren't worth my knowing.

That's the implication, that we're never in the absence of space weather, so we're always susceptible to bit-flip corruption, and critical systems must be hardened against it.

I believe the highest regarded theory that explains Toyota's unintended acceleration problem is still bit-flip. That theory was confirmed in laboratories to suggest it's at least possible, and even probable in a few among millions of vehicles.

https://www.wired.com/2010/03/toyota-cosmic-rays/

Simulpost!

aerohead -- Too much information:
Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest -- The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down WRITTEN BY: J.R. ROBERTSON

I had a friend who told me his time is too short to waste it on me. ...years ago. He and I are still kicking.

time
 

With two days a week to be on computer, I've no luxury to explore these esoteric materials, even if I wanted. That's all I'm saying.

Still friends? A lot of it is for the lurkers. They outnumber us ten to one.

Still friends?
 

yep!