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1 .SH tgtimes
2 Space Weather Woman
3 .2C 25v
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5 .PP
6 As she names herself, Tamitha Skov
7 .FS
8 https://www.spaceweatherwoman.com/
9 https://yewtu.be/c/TamithaSkov
10 .FE
11 is the Space Weather Woman.
12 You read it right!
13 She have been doing, since now close to ten years, forecasts about how is space weather is going.
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15 .PP
16 Just a nerd fantasy?
17 Only a sci-fi artist on a periodic one woman show?
18 Not at all!
19 Knowing what the sun is blasting toward Earth can reveal more useful than it looks.
20 This includes:
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22 .IP \(bu
23 personnal safety for some plane flights at high lattitude.
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26 GPS communication, something happening in the pocket of many individuals,
27 some of them even unaware of the involvement of satellites in the process.
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30 Long distance radio communication, which include Amateur Radio operators,
31 but also emergency services and militaries.
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34 Something that Starlink did not invent
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36 WildBlue, Viasat, NordNet...
37 First amateur stellite launched in 1961.
38 .FE
39 is satellite-relayed communication, including satellite internet and voice phone transmission.
40 Actually a lot of wind turbines are being given satellite internet,
41 and see how a little disruption
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43 https://hackaday.com/2022/06/02/the-great-euro-sat-hack-should-be-a-warning-to-us-all/
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45 in satellite internet access can disrupt their operation.
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48 And all of these fancy things are benefiting from Tamitha Skov's efforts as a researcher,
49 but also by informing in layman's terms what is going on outter space.
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52 Weather phenomena like coronal mass ejections, solar flares, and solar particle events.
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54 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamitha_Skov
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58 Science is elegant.