ANT100Y1 Chapter 2: Chapter 2.docx
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On the earth, there were all sorts of communications blackouts. All of the expeditions on mount everest were lost contact with. There were forest fires in california at the time, and the radios would not work properly so they could not correctly coordinate their efforts to fight these fires. The marine disaster network, the emergency network there, was blacked out as well. Then there were other somewhat more trivial communications issues, such as mobile phones and satellite television being blacked out for people. Perhaps most seriously of all was that this was the first time that passenger aircraft were diverted because of the risk of high altitude radiation. The solar flares on the 28th of october and again two days later on the 30th were so large that the faa decided that they would move all aircraft away from the. These have been becoming increasingly popular as routes, to go over the poles of the planet.