Sunday, April 29, 2007

Solar Sunspots expected in the next 5 years

Who- Sunspot Cycle in the near future
What- The climax of the next sunspot series is to be expected in 2011-2012, the 12 member panel which is incharge of forecasting the solar cycle is split and uncertain to how many suspots and when they are going to occur. 6 predict 140 sunspots in October 2011 while the other 6 expect 90 sunspots in August 2012. These solar storms are potentially hazardous to humans and our technology. These solar eruptions shoothigly charged matter at Earth. The average solar cycle occurs for about 11 years.
Where- In Space and near the sun.
When- A time period between October 2011-August 2012
Why- Solar Cycles always happen, this is one of those eventually it'll happen type of occurance
Opinion- That must suck for the airline industry, astronauts, GPS systems,and electrical companies, I just have to say stay indoors.

Friday, April 13, 2007

Human Error on the Global Surveyor

Who-Mars Global Surveyor
What-Human error caused a surge of events which caused the battery on the Surveyor to ultimatley fail and shut down.
Where-Mars' atmosphere
When-Last year(It was only just posted recently)
Why-The problems actually began in 2005 when routine tech. updates caused inconsistencies in the computers memory.Engineers also tried to fix the problem 6 months before it shut down by updating it, but installed the wrong hardware and disabled its solar panels.And several attemepts to try and locate the surveyor were unsuccessful and the surveyor was deemed lost and doomed.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/04/13/mars.surveyor.ap/index.html

This space probe was built and launched at a price tag of $154 million , and it took only a team of careless engineers to bring that money to a waste, I really believe this was a stupid ordeal and could have been avoided by more careful inspections, what a waste of money.