Comments on: The day the Sun powered the Telegraph System http://www.scienceoxfordonline.com/the-day-the-sun-powered-the-telegraph-system Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:41:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Frank Billington http://www.scienceoxfordonline.com/the-day-the-sun-powered-the-telegraph-system/comment-page-1#comment-224 Frank Billington Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:59:54 +0000 http://dev2.scienceoxfordonline.com/?p=241#comment-224 We humans think that we have the world and it's sciences by the tail. I believe tghat, in truth, there are many arenas where we have barely accomplished dabbling our fingers in the water. Amateur Radio Operators regularly use solar magnetism and sunspots in predicting times of good RF communication and bad. But that's only one tiny facet. Other than illustrating the possibilities of "harnessing" the sun's magnetic effects, we have a long way to go in improving our knowledge. It's going to be a while, but I can practically guarantee that it will be a fascinating and interesting - not to mention educational - ride! Frank - W7FJB We humans think that we have the world and it’s sciences by the tail. I believe tghat, in truth, there are many arenas where we have barely accomplished dabbling our fingers in the water. Amateur Radio Operators regularly use solar magnetism and sunspots in predicting times of good RF communication and bad. But that’s only one tiny facet. Other than illustrating the possibilities of “harnessing” the sun’s magnetic effects, we have a long way to go in improving our knowledge. It’s going to be a while, but I can practically guarantee that it will be a fascinating and interesting – not to mention educational – ride!

Frank – W7FJB

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