{"id":34660,"date":"2021-11-16T14:04:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T20:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34660"},"modified":"2021-11-16T14:04:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T20:04:03","slug":"boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-that-wasnt-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/11\/16\/boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-that-wasnt-good\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOM! BOom! boom! boom &#8230; boom &#8230; that wasn&#8217;t good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Spaceweather.com<\/strong><\/em> has an <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweather.com\/archive.php?view=1&amp;day=16&amp;month=11&amp;year=2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unsettling report<\/a> on human activity messing with us all:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>SPACE WEATHER AND THE RUSSIAN ASAT STRIKE:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Russia just destroyed one of its own satellites. On Nov. 15, 2021, a missile launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome struck Kosmos 1408,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacecom.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/2842957\/russian-direct-ascent-anti-satellite-missile-test-creates-significant-long-last\/\">shattering the old satellite<\/a>\u00a0into thousands of pieces. Debris came so close to the ISS that astronauts took shelter in their crew capsules, just in case they had to abandon ship.<\/p>\n<p>Littering Earth orbit with debris is never a good idea. Space weather could make it much worse. To understand why, &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go follow the link. Losing satellites means losing cheap communications, accurate weather forecasting such as incoming hurricanes, etc etc. Hurricanes that kill more than a thousand people are a big deal these days; back at the beginning of the 20th century, Galveston lost somewhere around ten thousand people to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1900_Galveston_hurricane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>1900 storm<\/strong><\/a>, a magnitude more than today. If weather does become more violent as a result of anthropogenic climate change, then losing warnings means more people killed, as well as more damage, due to lack of preparation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spaceweather.com has an unsettling report on human activity messing with us all: SPACE WEATHER AND THE RUSSIAN ASAT STRIKE:\u00a0Russia just destroyed one of its own satellites. On Nov. 15, 2021, a missile launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome struck Kosmos 1408,\u00a0shattering the old satellite\u00a0into thousands of pieces. Debris came so close \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/11\/16\/boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-that-wasnt-good\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34661,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34660\/revisions\/34661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}