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Politics : Clinton -- doomed & wagging, Japan collapses, Y2K bug, etc
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To: JJMM who wrote (314)9/16/1998 9:33:00 AM
From: SOROS   of 1151
 
YES.

Time / Pathfinder - 20 Nov 96

Just as businesses and federal agencies are feverishly rewriting billions of lines of code to ensure that their computers' two digit calendars don't treat "2000" like "1900," scientists are pointing to a new looming millennial crisis: Cycle 23. A panel of government researchers said Monday that the year 2000 falls on the cusp of an 11-year cycle of solar weather, and that humankind had better be prepared.

Solar weather is the pattern of turbulence on the sun's surface that sends electromagnetic pulses and bursts of charged particles toward the Earth. The effects are not felt by humans, but by systems
dependent on electronics--especially computers.

Cycle 23 will be the worst yet, says Ernie Hildner, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colorado. "With each new solar cycle that comes along, new industries have crossed the threshold of vulnerability to space weather, and they don't even know it until something happens to them," said Hildner.

As technology gets increasingly sophisticated it also becomes more vulnerable, and sudden surges from the sun can damage the electronics of computer networks, satellite cell-phone systems, even disrupting
oil drilling directed by the earth's magnetic field. Indeed, any remote or wired system, even pipelines and other arrays of massive metal, can be affected by interference and induced current.
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