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re: Spinoff from the cell phone thing: solar storms
Posted on 2/22/24 at 3:47 pm to Darth_Vader
Posted on 2/22/24 at 3:47 pm to Darth_Vader
Solar flare only hits on daylight side of Earth and that wouldve been centered over India at the initial time of the outage.
The less fun, more likely culprit of this was a misconfiguration by a network engineer. 2nd most likely cause would be cyber attack.
Solar flare is the least likely scenario.
The less fun, more likely culprit of this was a misconfiguration by a network engineer. 2nd most likely cause would be cyber attack.
Solar flare is the least likely scenario.
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Posted on 2/22/24 at 3:49 pm to lockthevaught
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The less fun, more likely culprit of this was a misconfiguration by a network engineer.
As a network engineer I’ll say it was likely a failed UPS..at least that’s the most common cause for us over the last 20 years. Management never wants to fund battery replacements.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 4:01 pm to lockthevaught
Well, hello there Mr Fradella... 
Posted on 2/22/24 at 4:09 pm to lockthevaught
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The less fun, more likely culprit of this was a misconfiguration by a network engineer. 2nd most likely cause would be cyber attack.
Solar flare is the least likely scenario.
Unless ground comms between cell towers and satellites were knocked out.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 4:51 pm to lockthevaught
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Solar flare only hits on daylight side of Earth and that wouldve been centered over India at the initial time of the outage.
It’s not true that CME’s (which are technically distinct from solar flares, although they are related) only hit on the daylight side of earth. They interact with Earth’s magnetosphere and can have impacts across the globe, regardless of whether the region is in daylight.
The telegraph incident OP referenced happened at night. In fact, many impacts of CME’s can actually be worse on the night side of the planet due to the way they interact with the magnetosphere.
Not that I think this AT&T issue had anything to do with a CME, just saying the fact that India was facing the Sun wouldn’t have really meant anything in that context.
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