16 Years of GPS Space Weather Data Made Publicly Available (sciencemag.org) 52
"It's not often that a scientific discipline gains a 23-satellite constellation overnight," reports Science magazine, describing 16 years worth of radiation measurements from GPS satellites finally released by Los Alamos National Lab. "Although billions of people globally use data from GPS satellites, they remain U.S. military assets."
Scientists have long sought the data generated by sensors used to monitor the status of the satellites, which operate in the heavy radiation of medium-Earth orbit and can be vulnerable to solar storms. But few have been allowed to tap this resource... That attitude changed in October 2016, when the outgoing Obama administration issued an executive order aimed at preparing the country for extreme space weather. Such bursts in charged particles, originating in a solar flare or coronal mass ejection, could disable the electrical power grid or divert flights away from the Arctic, where radiation exposure is heightened. The GPS data, which dates from December 2000, fill a hole in studies of space weather, the complex interplay of Earth's magnetic field with bombarding radiation from cosmic rays and the sun.
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Like how much weather is there in space?
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How's the weather? See for yourself!
https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/spaceweather/
http://spaceweathernews.com/
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusiasts
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/alerts-watches-and-warnings
http://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Space_Weather
http://spaceweather.gc.ca/index-en.php
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Q: If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a sheep have?
A: Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.
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Q: If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a sheep have?
Let A = 1;
A: Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.
A == 1;
=> F
Really?!
IF we call a sheep's tail a 'leg,' a sheep has One leg! ... Unless, of course, we also call other body part 'legs' (eg. those appendages which hold the sheep off the ground which, outside your conditional, we traditionally call 'legs')
There is no property inherent to an object which binds it to the English language noun by which it is called. The meaning of
Broaden your definition of "weather" (Score:2)
underwater has its own kind of "weather" so why wouldn't above the atmosphere have "weather" (used as shorthand for a measure of the ambient conditions in X).
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Because we all know there is no sun, all the light we get is from fearless leaders hair.
Hail the orange one! for he is the light of our day! If you say otherwise it's HERESEY!
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Hail the orange one! for he is the light of our day! If you say otherwise it's HAIR-ESY! (FTFY)
Re:Now, because (Score:5, Funny)
They also covered up the fact that the Bowling Green Massacre of 2011 was a false flag operation and thousands of Muslims in New Jersey were in the streets cheering.
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LOL
However, the 90 million number is padded, since this number includes a lot of Americans who wouldn’t be expected to be working. Specifically:
People age 16 to 17, who likely are in high school: 9 million
People who are enrolled in either two- or four-year colleges: 21 million
People age 65 and older, who have reached retirement age: 40 million people
That means 20 million people are of normal working age, not in college and not working. That’s less than one-quarter the amo
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okay so now add the folks that
1 are in the "working" age range but have given up on being able to work
2 have cooked records (or damaged themselves) to get on the disabled rolls
3 add back 50% of the folks 65 or older that still need to work because they got err Shafted by their employers when it came time to pay out retirement
4 also add back 25% of the kids (because they need to earn something to survive due to mom/dad not earning enough)
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They also covered up the fact that the Bowling Green Massacre of 2011 was a false flag operation and thousands of Muslims in New Jersey were in the streets cheering.
Well I for one, will not stand by while the countless familie killed by these evil people are not helped.
I've started a GoFundMe and Patreon page to collect money to help these poor people. And if they don't claim it..........
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NASA did the same thing several times during the Shrub mAdministration. At one point they were told to turn off some aging space probe, Pioneer I think. Not "stop monitoring" but "turn it off so that no one else can monitor it" (not that anyone else has the equipment), and were openly annoyed that the ability to do so didn't exist. Repeatedly NASA was instructed to **destroy** data, which they did only after handing a copy over to other parties (generally the Planetary Society). In at least one case sta
Needs Compressed Download (Score:3)
I downloaded one of the files and used 7Zip to throw it into a Z archive. The size went from 5 MB down to 500 KB. I uncompressed to make sure it wasn't a fluke but was 100% accurate.
Shouldn't we expect a little more from the country's best and brightest? I mean, come on...
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wget FTW
http compresses anyway.
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But gzip would help. Just tested, it brought the files down to 600-700KB from 5-6 MBs.
Still, it's over 8000 files. Could have compressed each directory to a single file and made it easier on everyone.
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Do us all a favor. Tar, bzip2, and torrent.
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When, as I mentioned, it could have been done downloading before I even posted the first comment above had they used any form of compression.
But I'll throw in into an S3 bucket after it's all down and compressed for anyone interested.
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Thanks I'll check back in a couple of days ;)
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GPS+Energetic+Charged+Particle+2016-12-08+63GBs.zip.001 [amazonaws.com]
GPS+Energetic+Charged+Particle+2016-12-08+63GBs.zip.002 [amazonaws.com]
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Do us all a favor. Tar, bzip2, and torrent.
Y'all would bitch and moan about free beer.
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If it was PBR or Coors, sure.
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If it was PBR or Coors, sure.
Sir! I said Beer, not PeeWaa!
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They made the data available. Now that you've downloaded one of the files (for some reason other than to load down their server a
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Imagine all the bandwidth being wasted. I think it's incredulous to release a huge treasure trove of data this big and not think of compressing.
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Imagine all the bandwidth being wasted. I think it's incredulous to release a huge treasure trove of data this big and not think of compressing.
Good heavens - if it is such a hardship, don't download it.
Regardless, I'm not certain if it is a good idea to download this or not. It's probably NASA trying to get as much of their data out there before they are cleansed of scientists who do not straighten up and fly right. Which is apparently what is happening with the AGW data as well. This stuff might be illegal soon.
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Compressed Download Available (Score:3)
Files are available on Amazon S3 here:
GPS+Energetic+Charged+Particle+2016-12-08+63GBs.zip.001 [amazonaws.com]
GPS+Energetic+Charged+Particle+2016-12-08+63GBs.zip.002 [amazonaws.com]
Keep in mind that the total folder is over 63 GBs and 8000 files.
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Sure you did.
How much do you want to wager that it now is ten thousand copies of Goats.exe?
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I get the joke but the zips are a serious effort to help get the data shared. The original source took almost 6 hours to download fully because did they not compress or compact the files in any way. I'm just trying to save others interested that effort (and their bandwidth budgets for people with caps).
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I downloaded the entire dataset folder and compressed into a two-part ZIP for easy download and/or archiving to DVD.
And also available as a single xz-compressed tarfile: http://drevans.blog.enginehous... [enginehousebooks.com]. (This file is about 1.3 GB smaller than the sum of the two zip files.)
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It's the frelling military. If it wouldn't benefit whatever corporate board they're going to sit on after they retire the generals won't allow anything that might serve the public good to escape.
"Obama administration issued an executive order.." (Score:2)
This is great for time travelers (Score:2)
But what we could really use is the next 16 years of space weather.