#Computer errors 🐞 from #OuterSpace from a vote-counting machine that added thousands of non-existent votes to a candidate's tally, to a commercial #airliner ✈️ that suddenly dropped hundreds of feet mid-flight ⤵️, injuring dozens of passengers. A pacemaker's ❤️ built-in computer data got corrupted mid-flight. A group of researchers investigated more than 2,000 bit errors logged by a #satellite 🛰️ over roughly two years in #orbit. A huge number of the errors were clustered in an area called the South Atlantic Anomaly. According to #Nasa, #astronauts 👨🚀 on the #SpaceShuttle used to notice that their #laptops 💻 sometimes crashed when the space shuttle passed through the #SAAhttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221011-how-space-weather-causes-computer-errors
From #satellite 🛰️ imagery for monitoring 👀 vast forest areas to #GPS 🧭 systems essential for precise data collection and effective communication, technology is at the heart of contemporary #forest 🌲🌳 management. Beyond technological disruptions, #solar ☀️ superstorms could also have a profound impact on the ecological balance within forest ecosystems. The #downtime ⛔ in forest management and conservation efforts, coupled with the potential #ecological impacts, could have far-reaching consequences for the global economy 〽️ https://forestry.com/editorial/the-hidden-threat-of-solar-superstorm-a-forestry-perspective/
Picture : #Aurora over the forest https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aurora_over_the_boreal_forest_(57be20e1-a3cf-453e-9632-2d38df39b643).jpg
📆 Oct 4, 2019 “We don’t have a clue 🙈🙉🙊 about #radiation ☢️. The way #NASA handles a lot of the radiation work has been a lot of predictions 🔮. I think that we’re grossly underestimating the effects.”
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