Storms from the Sun The Emerging Science of Space Weather (2002) / Chapter Skim
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Epilogue: Over the Horizon
Epilogue: Over the Horizon
Pages 191-198
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Most citizens of the inclustrializecl nations carry personal communicators, hybric! crevices that serve as a cell phone with woric~wicle access, a pager, an instant messenger, and a Web browser with high-speec!
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the heliopause, the outermost edge of our solar system. She opens her e-mail account to see an offer to participate in an initial public stock offering for a Russian space tourism company that is planning to launch an orbiting hotel for civilian passengers; they also plan to offer solar sailing cruises arounc!
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news to our modern citizen's clay. He tells passengers that the solar particle event has temporarily crippler!
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The existing electric power systems of the world are already being stressed by surging demand, and when the system is stressed, it is more vulnerable to equipment failures and blackouts due to terrestrial and space weather. With the demise of the Soviet Union, the polar airline routes between North America and the booming economies of East Asia have become busy highways, cutting the flight time significantly.
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, ant! other fecleral agencies were also making plans for incorporating solar sails into future missions, perhaps for the next fleet of space weather monitoring craft.
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to begin late in the first clecacle of the twenty-first century, ant! mission managers hope to have the whole fleet in place to watch the twentyfourth solar maximum, much as the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics program has allowed!
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Science fiction conjures up all manner of dangerous aliens ancl starbursts ancl quirky, mincl-bencling ripples in space ancl time. But the more immediate danger comes from our own Sun.
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