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    Giant Magnetic Space Shield Could Protect Earth from Devastating Solar Flares

    This video and accompanying article appears on the dot com for Newsweek with the by-line Hannah Osborne October 3, 2017. The video is not a YouTube one so you'll have to click to view it. Here is the first paragraph:

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    To protect Earth from the potentially devastating effects of extreme space weather, scientists have proposed the construction of a giant magnetic shield around the planet to deflect disruptive particles away from it.

    Newsweek

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    Interesting, I’d thought Newsweek had gone out of business.

    Maybe a few are starting to wake up to see we’ve got a problem.

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    Quote Originally posted by Dumpster Diver View Post
    Interesting, I’d thought Newsweek had gone out of business.

    Maybe a few are starting to wake up to see we’ve got a problem.
    I have to smile at Manasvi Lingam and Abraham Loeb, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, being quoted regarding the additional benefit of furthering "the search for extraterrestrial life":

    They say that any advanced alien civilization may have faced a similar problem as it developed technologically and potentially came up with the same solution of a giant space shield—and we could search for “technosignatures” around other stars and planets.

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    Quote Originally posted by KeepTrying View Post
    I have to smile at Manasvi Lingam and Abraham Loeb, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, being quoted regarding the additional benefit of furthering "the search for extraterrestrial life":

    They say that any advanced alien civilization may have faced a similar problem as it developed technologically and potentially came up with the same solution of a giant space shield—and we could search for “technosignatures” around other stars and planets.
    And the sad part is that when they found such a signature — either earlier this year or late last year — they said that it could have been anything, but that a construction in space by an alien civilization had to be considered as the last possible option.

    = DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR =

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