U.S. Satellite Plan Could Knock Out GPS and Radio

Audent writes "Otago University researchers are concerned by U.S. plans to protect satellites from solar storms... "The approach, which is being considered by the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, involves using very low frequency radio waves to flush particles from belts and dump them into the upper atmosphere over either one or several days". The plan could disrupt GPS signals and high frequency radio over the Pacific for up to a week. "The disruptions result from a deluge of dumped charged particles temporarily changing the ionosphere from a "mirror" that bounces high frequency radio waves around the planet to a "sponge" that soaks them up.""

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fuck me. american military is so fucking arrogant.

[lkcl]

as if we haven't got enough to fucking worry about with global warming, now the american military has to go fuck with the ionosphere as well. i mean jesus fucking christ what _exactly_ do they want to try to do: accelerate the death of everybody?? have they actually studied what the ionosphere actually _does_?

hey you stupid american military dicks: get your dicks out of your collective arses and STOP fucking with the planet, for god's sake.

did it _ever_ occur to you _why_ those radio waves are bounced back by the ionosphere??

FUCK your satellites - we have ENOUGH to worry about without your stupid arrogance killing us off.

Re:I'm sure they've thought of it

[Schemat1c]

wow what a bunch of big babiesw the military pilots are today.

He cant navigate without GPS, good god.

That's right. Back in my day we would strap a private to a kite and fly him over the enemy to drop rocks and flaming pinecones. We didn't need no confangled GPS...
ahhhhhh.... get off my lawn!