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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (5878)	5/31/1999 6:34:00 PM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Solar storm peak seen in 2000 << The year 2000 could see electrical power outages, satellites veering off-course and cellular phone and pager disruptions as the number of sunspots and flares, solar storms and other ''space weather'' hits its cyclical maximum, scientists said Monday. ''We call this the other Y2K problem,'' said JoAnn Joselyn, leader of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Environment Center, during the 194th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. ''We don't quite know how bad the effects are going to be. We do know the ionosphere is going to be disturbed.'' Geomagnetic storms on earth and other results of the increased solar activity are expected to reach their 11-year peak between January and April 2000, said Richard Altrock of the Air Force Research Laboratory in Sunspot, New Mexico ... cont'd ... >> abcnews.go.com A little icing for the Y2K cake. :-)) John