Comments on: Planes flying at high latitudes can travel through clouds of high cosmic radiation https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/planes-flying-at-high-latitudes-can-travel-through-clouds-of-high-cosmic-radiation/ Wed, 25 Jan 2017 03:36:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: se jones https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/planes-flying-at-high-latitudes-can-travel-through-clouds-of-high-cosmic-radiation/#comment-960784 Wed, 25 Jan 2017 03:36:10 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=43834#comment-960784 The BDRG instrument on Lomonosov may be seeing these phenomena as well. This is just a qualified “maybe” as my Russian is poor and I’m waiting on some papers to show up.

By the way, the gif animations of images from Lamonosov’s ShOK cameras are just wonderful, amazing and mesmerizing.

]]> By: ABQ Bill https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/planes-flying-at-high-latitudes-can-travel-through-clouds-of-high-cosmic-radiation/#comment-960462 Tue, 24 Jan 2017 01:30:26 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=43834#comment-960462 As a captain for that airline HQ’d in Atlanta, I always tried to fly below 31,000 ft when I could. SR-71 tests done decades ago showed a huge spike in radiation levels above 31K.
When solar storm activity was present, I tried to fly below 31K.

Too much of that exposure over a lifetime career can be nasty. At 65, I’m as healthy as can be, and on no meds. Hopefully my precautions were not in vain.

]]> By: LocalFluff https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/planes-flying-at-high-latitudes-can-travel-through-clouds-of-high-cosmic-radiation/#comment-960284 Mon, 23 Jan 2017 13:38:39 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=43834#comment-960284 Cosmic (and Solar) rays are treated as noise when they cause dots and lines of saturated pixels in telescopes, which they always do so there’s alot of potential data about it. But I heard an interview with an astronomer who specializes on investigating cosmic rays. He complained that all of his colleagues always did their best to erase all of the data he was interested in!!! :-P

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