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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.
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.
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I think the black obelisk told us to develop this space blanket for the space baby.
>> 'impenetrable boundary,' a phrase coined by study co-author Dan Baker
Or anyone who's forgotten their wife's birthday. Amirite?
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.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Seriously, if this can lower possible harm to a ground crew, that could be useful. Perhaps directed to cover a small area.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Because the impenetrable layer is penetrable.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
But it would still be very low frequency as far as high frequency goes.
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All you ever need to do is emit a tachyon pulse.
I honestly can tell that you didn't actually read what you wrote.
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Mediocre Frequency?
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Ludicrous Frequency!
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"Now Witness the Firepower of this fully Armed and Operational Earth!"
Or invert the polarity. Or modulate the frequency.
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This is only a test.
[annoying high frequency noise that older people can't even hear properly]
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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's too late for that. Just look what 20 years of FOX "News" has done to brains of millions...
Roger Ailes is dead but only after he left Fox so perhaps you need to be close to the source to have scrambled brains & a long life
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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.
A plaid shield!
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Is this how they lost contact with their alien overlords?
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?
"Space whales?"
Yes, that, and a bowl of petunias.
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Could we modulate the polarity?
Well, we will miss you, 'cuz the rest of us 6.5 billion souls aren't leaving to make room for just you. Usually grammar and spelling mistakes are supposed to be, by Netiquette, not the focus of responses unless ironically used by a poster. Like when one states, "you mismelled that", or "you're grammar is bad to" and the like. But to the matter at hand, how do you expect Jesus to take you? And could you kindly not be in a position where when you are suddenly taken put others in danger. I suggest the safest course to lessen your impact on society be to just stay calm, remain home, with the power turned off and the stove off (as it may be gas). Then you can wait quietly for your personal rapture and the world avoids messy things like car accidents where the driver was vanished from the car in rush hour traffic. Best of luck.
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You misspelled 'interfere' TWICE in TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WAYS!!! Are you fucking retarded? Jesus, end my life. I can't live in a world filled with such morons. FUCK!
And you are an Anonymous Coward, i'll take the bad speller any day over pedantic people like you.
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Maybe a first step in terraforming Mars. And does this "shield" keep particles in as well as out? If it works both ways it could help prevent atmospheric depletion and allow bulking up the atmosphere on celestial bodies that have lost their magnetic fields. Lake Armstrong here we come! And maybe even generation ships crossing interstellar distances.
- Tjp
I am in wallow with my inner money grubbing capitalistic pig. ... Oink!
Is it opposites day? ;)
Weaponized = removed. Why haven't the terrorists done that yet? Blow all of those VLF RF emission devices to pieces and they'll scare and harm Humans until their deity is appeased enough to give them enough virgins to last about two and a half months! That's right, one a day for almost two and a half months! Get your terror on today! Psh.
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?
Or you could change the Lambda instead.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Could I emit VLF radiation by rubbing a balloon on my head then waving it about in a vaguely sinusoidal motion? :D
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's too late for that. Just look what 20 years of FOX "News" has done to brains of millions...
Roger Ailes is dead but only after he left Fox so perhaps you need to be close to the source to have scrambled brains & a long life
mmm... scrambled brains....
Could we modulate the polarity?
Two transmitters, same freq. but 180 degrees out of phase.
It may cancel out or it might do something interesting...
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So, basically (and unwittingly), we're using the Earths' own natural magnetic field as a carrier wave, and our VLF emissions are modulating it? Cool.
Makes me wonder if, now knowing this, we could engineer the effect to, say, mitigate the effects of solar flares on our various technologies?
And what you got, ain't much.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Basically, we've figured out how to make a rudimentary deflector shield.
Solar storm approaching! Earth shields to maximum power! *hits big red button on VLF machine*
Isn't the main weapon of the Death Star a particle beam? Perhaps Alderaan needed more submarines and a VLF comm system.
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?
Or you could change the Lambda instead.
That only works infrequently at best.
(This sounds like an episode of The X-Files.)
So the real answer to the Fermi Paradox is... Before a coronal mass ejection hits the planet, civilization has to have developed... submarines. Well, *that's* counter-intuitive.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
That's what I'm wondering... could this be used to wrap Mars in a protective space blanket to protect its atmosphere from solar wind? If so, that's a pretty huge step in teraforming.
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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?
Sounds too complicated. How about we fluctuate the mass of earth instead?
I think that's how my Bose QC25 work....
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This effect has been known, and studied, for many years. One of the early discoverers, and researchers into the effect, was Robert Helliwell of Stanford. ELF generated by lightning, which is happening around the world all the time, was triggering this cleaning-out of the earth's inner radiation belt long before the first submarine ever existed. I'm afraid this is old news in a typical NASA PR flack package. I suspect there are people waiting in the wings ready to propose setting up large ELF transmitters along the equatorward edge of the auroral zone so as to clean out the radiation belts on a routine basis. I believe this sort of thing was even proposed (may still be on the books) as a way to dump out an artificial radiation belt generated by a high altitude nuclear explosion (like the Starfish experiment back in 1962) should some Bad Guys decide to do that as part of an attack on satellite assets.
Considering the major impact that the solar wind has on high level ozone concentrations and cloud formation that we're only beginning to understand, one might wonder how much of an impact this may be having on global temperature.
BTW, that linked video was pretty nearly worthless explaining anything.
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Imagine n transmitters each transmitting at a low frequency f, starting at t0 + ndt such that sum ndt = f. As n goes to infinity we have VLF cacophony.
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But what if we turned it up to 11?
https://phys.org/news/2017-03-...
Oops - for ELF in my post read VLF. My irritation with NASA fuzzed my brain. For those interested in the physics/math behind all this, take a look at "Particle Diffusion in the Radiation Belts" by Michael Schulz and Lou Lanzerrotti (published in 1974 - NOT news).
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So we can't increase the frequency, but what if we just took this Very Low Frequency radiation and shortened the wavelength?
The resulting change of the speed of light would make every day a slow news day.
In other words, a slashdotter wouldn't notice!
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But then it just Hertz more.
Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?
Maybe we could increase the Amplitude?
That's it, reverse the polarity on the space positron emitter.
Since our magnetic shield is almost toast right now, this really is GOOD news. I, for one. don't care to be bombarded with high energy protons, and right now the sun has been loosing them on us at a furious pace...
Sounds like we need this to surround the White House. If it is that impenetrable, maybe it can be used to seal that piece of shit off from the rest of the world before he does any more damage.
And make Trump pay for it!