Comment by chipuni
5 years ago
I just exposed myself to radiation from the largest fusion reactor in the solar system! Should I panic?
....errr....
Wait.
I have just been slipped a note that the first sentence I wrote means "I just went for a walk in sunshine."
I have a fun story about the sun.
I used to work for an IPTV provider (who also happens to make a search engine). We received TV feeds from TV stations via satellite; we had an antenna farm, received their signals there, compressed/encoded the signal, and then sent them to customers over the network. Because we only had one antenna farm, we would have TV outages throughout the year -- sometimes the satellite happens to be directly in front of the sun, and the sun is a huge RF emitter that would overwhelm our receivers. (I asked if we can just move the satellites, but was told that we didn't have the delta-V budget. We eventually built another antenna farm. Another question I asked is why can't the TV stations just send us video files over the network. Apparently it simply isn't done; they have used satellites for decades, so why switch?)