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Humans Accidentally Made a Space Cocoon For Ourselves Out of Radio Waves (vice.com)

An anonymous reader shares a Motherboard article: Humans have accidentally created a protective bubble around Earth by using very low frequency (VLF) radio transmissions to contact submarines in the ocean. It sounds nuts, but according to recent research published in Space Science Reviews, underwater communication through VLF channels has an outer space dimension. This video explainer, released by NASA on Wednesday, visualizes how radio waves wafting into space interact with the particles surrounding Earth, and influence their motion. Satellites in certain high-altitude orbits, such as NASA's particle-watching Van Allen Probes, have observed these VLF ripples creating an 'impenetrable boundary,' a phrase coined by study co-author Dan Baker, director of the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. This doesn't mean impenetrable to spacecraft or asteroids, per se, but rather to potentially harmful particle showers created by turbulent space weather.

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  1. Re:Interesting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think the black obelisk told us to develop this space blanket for the space baby.

  2. Or anyone who's forgotten their wife's birthday by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 2, Funny

    >> 'impenetrable boundary,' a phrase coined by study co-author Dan Baker

    Or anyone who's forgotten their wife's birthday. Amirite?

  3. Re:This might make Mars habitation more feasible. by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you can get people there without the proteins in their brain being denatured by radiation, maybe you could keep them that way for extended periods without their brains turning into scrambled eggs.

    It wouldn't work on Mars because there are no oceans to put Submarines in to communicate with.

    / yes I'm being facetious.

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  4. Re: Interesting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Has nothing to do with monoliths. Has all to do with HAARP and geoengineering in collusion with the Russians who shared their chemtrail technology originally with the Reagan administration and now with TRUMP. TRUMP and the Russians are wholly owned by Reptilian Zionist Jews who want to eradicate the surface of the earth of "space pork," aka humans possessed by Mohammed promising 1024 virgins (joke's on Slashdot), Mohammed actually being a yerk slug and mind control virus created by Vindoor and delivered by his moon pod to paralyze us all.

  5. Re:Beginning of shield technology? by nine-times · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps if we can emit VLF radiation at very high frequency

    If we emit Very Low Frequency radiation at very high frequency it won't be very low frequency any more.

    Hmmm... Ok. So we can't increase the frequency, but what if we just took this Very Low Frequency radiation and shortened the wavelength?

  6. Re:Interesting... by msauve · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Space whales?"

    Yes, that, and a bowl of petunias.

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  7. Re:Beginning of shield technology? by Megol · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could we modulate the polarity?