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- catalog abstract ""The 23rd Cycle traces the previously untold history of solar storms and the ways in which they were perceived by astronomers - and even occasionally covered up by satellite companies. Odenwald shows how solar flares, which were once a curious nuisance, can come to pose a potential worldwide disaster in light of our accelerating dependence upon sophisticated technologies - from computers and cell phones to the thousands of space satellites and complex, high-speed cables that are wired into homes, businesses, government databases, and air traffic control systems. What once caused telegraph machines to give off sparks, or people in their living rooms to puzzle over a spontaneous change of channels, could now blanket the earth in darkness and chaos. The 23rd Cycle includes a history of the record of auroral sightings, accounts of blackouts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, industries sensitive to solar storms, and radiation and health issues."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Twenty-third cycle".
- catalog contributor b12026224.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""The 23rd Cycle traces the previously untold history of solar storms and the ways in which they were perceived by astronomers - and even occasionally covered up by satellite companies. Odenwald shows how solar flares, which were once a curious nuisance, can come to pose a potential worldwide disaster in light of our accelerating dependence upon sophisticated technologies - from computers and cell phones to the thousands of space satellites and complex, high-speed cables that are wired into homes, businesses, government databases, and air traffic control systems. What once caused telegraph machines to give off sparks, or people in their living rooms to puzzle over a spontaneous change of channels, could now blanket the earth in darkness and chaos. The 23rd Cycle includes a history of the record of auroral sightings, accounts of blackouts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, industries sensitive to solar storms, and radiation and health issues."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-201) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 207 p., [12] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0231120788 (cloth : acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "0231120796 (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog subject "538/.746 21".
- catalog subject "QB524 .O34 2001".
- catalog subject "Solar activity Environmental aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "The 23rd cycle : learning to live with a stormy star / Sten F. Odenwald.".
- catalog title "Twenty-third cycle".
- catalog type "text".