Leonid Meteor Storm Could Threaten Satellites Posted by Hemlock on Tuesday October 12, @01:25PM EDT from the duck-and-cover dept. StargazerSue writes "Astronomers predict that next month's Leonid meteor shower could become a full storm, with thousands of meteors per hour. Satellite operators are planning to turn their solar panels edge-on to the stream and hope for the best. Ground observers just need dark skies, a lawn chair and something hot to drink." I'll be the one in the lawn chair. Wake me if the satellites fall. Leonid Meteor Storm Could Threaten Satellites | Login/Create an Account | Top | 16 comments | Search Discussion Threshold: -1: 16 comments 0: 15 comments 1: 12 comments 2: 10 comments 3: 8 comments 4: 4 comments 5: 1 comments NestedFlatThreadedNo Comments Oldest FirstNewest FirstHighest Scores First The fine print: the following comments belong to whoever typed them. Dashdot takes no responsibility for them, and frankly, neither do most of the people who typed them. Best viewing by crufty on Tuesday October 12, @01:35PM EDT (#1) (User Info) Get away from city lights, face east after midnight, and give your eyes 20 minutes to adapt. Don't bother with binoculars, you want the widest field of view possible. [ Reply to This ] Re:Best viewing by q_bert on Tuesday October 12, @02:10PM EDT (#5) (User Info) The parent's point stands, though: it depends entirely on the use case. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Best viewing by mp3_maniac on Tuesday October 12, @02:11PM EDT (#6) (User Info) I think you're missing the point. Nobody is arguing it's perfect, just that it's better than what we had. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Space junk by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12, @01:38PM EDT (#2) Each grain of sand at 70 km/s carries more energy than a bullet. It's not the big ones you worry about, it's the plasma they make when they hit. [ Reply to This ] Re:Space junk by Speculatron on Tuesday October 12, @01:40PM EDT (#3) (User Info) Heh. Nice one. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Standards by DomainDave on Tuesday October 12, @01:53PM EDT (#4) (User Info) This is why we need open standards. Without them every vendor builds a little walled garden and the users pay for the walls. [ Reply to This ] Re:Standards by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12, @02:20PM EDT (#7) Thanks for posting this. I learned something today, which is rare for a comment section. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Standards by Gnuisance on Tuesday October 12, @02:34PM EDT (#8) (User Info) Whoosh. That was the sound of the joke going over your head. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Standards by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12, @03:23PM EDT (#12) I tried that and it set my monitor on fire. Thanks a lot. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Standards by mp3_maniac on Tuesday October 12, @04:00PM EDT (#15) (User Info) You must be new here. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Information wants to be free by Gnuisance on Tuesday October 12, @02:51PM EDT (#10) (User Info) Information wants to be free. Hardware wants to be cheap. I want a nap. [ Reply to This ] My experience by LawGeek on Tuesday October 12, @04:07PM EDT (#16) (User Info) I've been working in this industry for 15 years, and I can tell you that this kind of thing comes around every five years with a new name. The underlying ideas don't change much; the marketing does. [ Reply to This ] 4 replies beneath your current threshold. Show them all (threshold -1).

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