Severe Space Weather

**davidbfpo** · 11-10-2018

The original article was on an academic website and the author has responded to some of the comments - which may be of interest:https://theconversation.com/blasts-from-the-past-how-massive-solar-eruptions-probably-detonated-dozens-of-us-sea-mines-105983?

**AdamG** · 10-23-2011

A 1300-foot-wide (400 metres) asteroid, which is more than one and a half times the length of a soccer pitch, will pass within 0.85 lunar distances of the Earth on November 8/9, 2011.
Discovered on December 28, 2005 by Robert McMillan of the Spacewatch Program near Tucson, Arizona, 2005 YU55 is believed to be a very dark, nearly spherical object.

http://www.irishweatheronline.com/ne...ber/32083.html

FEMA, FCC Announce Nationwide Test Of The Emergency Alert System

Similar to local Emergency Alert System Tests, this Test is Scheduled to Take Place on November 9, 2011

Release Date: June 9, 2011
Release Number: HQ-11-099

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will conduct the first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS). The nationwide test will occur on Wednesday, November 9 at 2 p.m. eastern standard time and may last up to three and a half minutes.

http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=55722

**Ken White** · 10-23-2011

The Asteroid passes Earth at 2328Z on 8 Nov, comes closest to the Moon at 0713Z on 9 Nov and the Emergency Alert Test is almost twelve hours later at 1900Z on the 9th (the time determined and announced for the Test at the June Meeting of the FCC). So?

**AdamG** · 10-24-2011

Good planning on FEMA's part - if NPL's math was off five months ago (when the EAS was first announced), it was ideally positioned to be moved left on the timeline and no longer be an exercise.

See the so?

**Ken White** · 10-24-2011

Originally Posted by AdamG

Good planning on FEMA's part - if NPL's math was off five months ago (when the EAS was first announced), it was ideally positioned to be moved left on the timeline and no longer be an exercise.

See the so?

No so there, no there there IMO. Once again, the sky does not seem to be falling...

That Asteroid was removed from the Sentry Risk Table in April, 2010. That means its orbit and trajectories could be adequately ascertained at that time, over a year before the theorists began to mutter and darkly predict. Yet another conspiracy falls prey to reality.

Having spent 12 years working with (not for, thank the gods) FEMA, I suspect I have far less respect for their prescience and capability than do many. I also believe the FCC, based on recent performance, is incapable of thinking that far ahead. After over three times that many years working for the US government in several capacities, I'm firmly convinced that Hanlon's Razor applies to the government's actions far more often than might conspiracy or deviousness...