Re: Significant Solar Storm

["Frank R. Borger_(FRB)" <frb@gammex.com>]

Frank R. Borger - Senior Physicist, Gammex RMI
fborger@gammex.com phn 608-828-7289 fax 608-828-7500

How many physicists does it take to change a light bulb?
Only one. According to Heisenberg, all you have to do
is observe the light bulb, and you change it.


>>> "Robert J. Barish" <robbarish@aol.com> July 14, 2000 11:19 >>>
>Greetings RADSAFERS:
<snip>
>you'll see that NOAA says this level event is reponsible for a dose rate at
>airliner altitudes equivalent to 3-4 x rays per hour. See the correspondence
>section in the July issue of Health Physics for more on this.
>
Worse than that, with all those particles inducing radioactivity in the airplane
metal, the whole plane will have to be disposed of in a LLW facility, (at least
if the fools on the hill get their way.)  ;-)



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