Pentagon's Satellite-Saving Plan Could Backfire (EMP)

Protecting hundreds of low-Earth-orbit satellites from destruction seems a laudable idea, and the US Pentagon wants to do just that. But the scheme could backfire, by shutting down civilian and military communications and impairing Global Positioning System signals.

The Pentagon is concerned that a high-altitude nuclear explosion or an intense solar storm could fill near-Earth space with charged particles, crippling the operation of many satellites. It has proposed a plan called “radiation belt remediation” to clean it up.

The idea is to orbit satellites that would direct very low frequency radio waves at 20 kilohertz into areas filled with charged particles. That would create wave-particle interactions that encourage particles to precipitate and fall into the upper atmosphere, where they would do little damage to other satellites in low-Earth orbit.

However, a study by Craig Rodger at the University of Otago in New Zealand, and colleagues, has revealed this could affect the electrical properties of the part of the upper atmosphere called the ionosphere, which in turn could severely disrupt radio and GPS transmissions.

Global-level effects Normally the ionosphere reflects radio waves at frequencies up to about 30 megahertz, allowing signals from one point on the ground to be reflected to another point located a great distance away.

~~Might be~~ IT IS AN URGENT, GREAT idea to harden our infrastructure on down to the citizen level, ASAP, though.

Please excuse my editorializing commentary.

I read once, a moderately convincing story of a report of a military or some such trainee . . . maybe 2 from different sources . . .

He/they asserted that he was trained, due to his genetic predisposition making it possible/easy, to receive 'telepathic' communications from ET's because the government knew there was coming a time when ALL electronic communications (including phones) would be destroyed.

Typically they practiced with the usual strings of numbers and other coded squences that were exceedingly boring.

Occasionally he asked the sending ET a question or two. Rarely he got some interesting answers--which I've forgotten.

The security was extreme and he also had to take some mysterious med at the beginning of his training. I forgot if he had to continue taking the med--supposedly to facilitate and enhance his 'capacities' for such communications, or not.

BTW, flaming naysayers will most likely be ignored.

It's just a tiny puzzle piece in a vast complexity of current convoluted bits of data.

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