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The 23rd cycle : learning to live with a stormy star /
On March 13, 1989, the entire Quebec power grid collapsed, automatic garage doors in California suburbs began to open and close without apparent reason, and microchip production came to a halt in the Northeast; in space, communications satellites had to be manually repointed after flipping upside do...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | On March 13, 1989, the entire Quebec power grid collapsed, automatic garage doors in California suburbs began to open and close without apparent reason, and microchip production came to a halt in the Northeast; in space, communications satellites had to be manually repointed after flipping upside down, and pressure readings on hydrogen tank supplies on board the Space Shuttle Discovery peaked, causing NASA to consider aborting the mission. What was the cause of all these seemingly disparate events? Sten Odenwald gives convincing evidence of the mischievous?and potentially catastrophic?pow. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 207 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-201) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0231505930 9780231505932 |