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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.
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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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.
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?
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?
Basically, we've figured out how to make a rudimentary deflector shield.
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.
Would it work without the magnetic field of the earth? It appears to be interacting with Earth's magnetic field. Mars has a much weaker magnetic field, I don't know if the magnetic field is important for it to work, if it is, this wouldn't work on Mars.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
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.