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article-tgtimes-space-weather-woman.mw (1662B) |
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1 .SH tgtimes |
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2 Space Weather Woman |
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3 .2C 25v |
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4 . |
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5 .PP |
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6 As she names herself, Tamitha Skov |
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7 .FS |
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8 https://www.spaceweatherwoman.com/ |
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9 https://yewtu.be/c/TamithaSkov |
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10 .FE |
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11 is the Space Weather Woman. |
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12 You read it right! |
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13 She have been doing, since now close to ten years, forecasts about how is space weather is going. |
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14 . |
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15 .PP |
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16 Just a nerd fantasy? |
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17 Only a sci-fi artist on a periodic one woman show? |
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18 Not at all! |
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19 Knowing what the sun is blasting toward Earth can reveal more useful than it looks. |
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20 This includes: |
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22 .IP \(bu |
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23 personnal safety for some plane flights at high lattitude. |
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25 .IP \(bu |
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26 GPS communication, something happening in the pocket of many individuals, |
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27 some of them even unaware of the involvement of satellites in the process. |
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29 .IP \(bu |
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30 Long distance radio communication, which include Amateur Radio operators, |
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31 but also emergency services and militaries. |
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32 . |
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33 .IP \(bu |
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34 Something that Starlink did not invent |
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35 .FS |
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36 WildBlue, Viasat, NordNet... |
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37 First amateur stellite launched in 1961. |
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38 .FE |
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39 is satellite-relayed communication, including satellite internet and voice phone transmission. |
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40 Actually a lot of wind turbines are being given satellite internet, |
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41 and see how a little disruption |
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42 .FS |
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43 https://hackaday.com/2022/06/02/the-great-euro-sat-hack-should-be-a-warning-to-us-all/ |
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44 .FE |
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45 in satellite internet access can disrupt their operation. |
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46 . |
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47 .PP |
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48 And all of these fancy things are benefiting from Tamitha Skov's efforts as a researcher, |
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49 but also by informing in layman's terms what is going on outter space. |
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50 . |
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51 .QP |
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52 Weather phenomena like coronal mass ejections, solar flares, and solar particle events. |
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54 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamitha_Skov |
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55 .FE |
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56 . |
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57 .PP |
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58 Science is elegant. |
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