The 23rd cycle: learning to live with a stormy star
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1. Verfasser: Odenwald, Sten F. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Columbia University Press c2001
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-201) and index
A conflagration of storms -- - Dancing in the light -- "Hello? Is anyone there?" -- - Between a rock and a hard place -- - "We're not in Kansas anymore! -- - They call them "satellite anomalies" -- - Business as usual -- - Human factors -- - Cycle -- - Through a crystal ball
On March 13, 1989, the entire Quebec power grid collapsed, automatic garage doors in California suburbs began to open and close without apparent reason, and microchip production came to a halt in the Northeast; in space, communications satellites had to be manually repointed after flipping upside down, and pressure readings on hydrogen tank supplies on board the Space Shuttle Discovery peaked, causing NASA to consider aborting the mission. What was the cause of all these seemingly disparate events? Sten Odenwald gives convincing evidence of the mischievous?and potentially catastrophic?pow
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 207 p.)
ISBN:0231505930
9780231505932

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