Solar 'superflare' shredded Earth's ozone

Larry Klaes forwarded me the e-mail I copied below.

I found the subject about a 'superflare' interesting as well as Alex Bonnici's reference to Dennis Chamberland's novel "Quantum Storms".

We have mentioned the potential for danger to astronauts from Solar Storms so I looked at the NewScientist article and another one it references.
- LRK -
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http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn7142-superflares-could-kill-unprotected-astronauts.html Superflares could kill unprotected astronauts
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I also went and looked at the reference to Dennis Chamberland's book "Quantum Storms" at his website
http://www.quantumeditions.com/

If you choose to go there you will see that Dennis is interested in both Space Colonies and Undersea Colonies.

Go to the bottom of his book page and you can read a bit about Dennis Chamberland and get a link to his blog page.
http://chamberland.blogspot.com/

On his blog page you will see that folks are working on Undersea Habitats in the now.
You might also find yourself taking a look at Chamberland's home page.
http://dennischamberland.com/

There you could go to his link about "Legue of the New Worlds"

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The League of the New Worlds is a non-profit research foundation committed to the permanent human settlement of the ocean and space frontiers. It is our express purpose to plan, design, launch and permanently occupy the unsettled regions of the world’s oceans and space. We approach our purpose with an incremental development of off-the-shelf technologies integrated with intelligence and purposeful synergy, fusing the goals of ocean and space settlement into a single enterprise called the League of the New Worlds.
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I have been reading a novel that my cousin Louis Phillips Hudson wrote, "the BONES of PLENTY" that details the trials of a North Dakota community during the dust storms and depression of the 1930s.

It makes me wonder what it will be like trying to make a go of a Lunar Colony should you chose to form one.
http://www.amazon.com/Bones-Plenty-Borealis-Philip-Hudson/dp/0873511751

How to plan for all the government red tape, the profits taken by big business and the middle men, while you put your sweat equity into working with what nature hands out.

Pay your insurance premiums, your loans, and take care of normal or abnormal wear and tear on your equipment.

Will you find the challenge rewarding enough to make a go of it?

Will you see any profit at the end of the year?

Will you be able to raise a family? (there or leave them behind). If you have not read the three books in the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson you may find them enlightening in what it could be like on Mars in a terraforming environment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy

It will a stimulating time working on the new problems that come along.

The Undersea Colony ideas will also get you thinking outside the box or maybe inside the habitat box. :-)
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Thanks for looking up with me.

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The e-mail below was sent to me and others by Larry Klaes and it looks like Alex sent it to a number of groups before, so possibly you have seen it.In case you haven't, I left the e-mail addresses for the Yahoo groups so you could check them out should they be of interest. The content may well be of interest also.
- LRK -
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>From: "Alex Michael Bonnici" >To: "The Carl Sagan Club Online" <thecarlsaganclubonline@yahoogroups.com>, <carlsaganscontact@yahoogroups.com>, <sagan-feynman@yahoogroups.com>, <FarFutureCalling@yahoogroups.com>, "SETI Bioastro" <bioastro@setileague.org>, "Major Matt Mason Club" <majormattmasonclubonline@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: SETI bioastro: Solar 'superflare' shredded Earth's ozone
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:01:56 +0200

Hello Gang,Here is a potential threat to our long term existence on planet Earth. This story caught my eye today because I am currently reading a fantastic science fiction novel entitled "Quantum Storms" by Dennis Chamberland that deals with a plot line similar this. Check out this link to a doorway to adventure:http://www.quantumeditions.com/

Alex

Solar 'superflare' shredded Earth's ozone
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn11456-solar-superflare-shredded-earths-ozone.html The largest solar flare in the last 500 years may have shredded Earth's ozone layer to a greater extent than human-made chemicals have in recent decades, new research suggests, but the effect was only temporary. If such a flare occurred today, it would likely be even more damaging to the ozone and could increase the rate of skin cancer around the world.

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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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