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NS: Smart dust could give early warning of space storms

Post by bystander » Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:00 pm

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... torms.html
New Scientist - 2010 Feb 05
A SWARM of "smart dust" spacecraft, positioned at a sweet spot between the Earth and the sun, could alert us to the approach of dangerous space storms well before a conventional craft can. The first prototypes are due for launch into low-Earth orbit this year, perhaps as early as May.

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Post by neufer » Fri Feb 05, 2010 5:04 pm

bystander wrote:<<A SWARM of "smart dust" spacecraft, positioned at a sweet spot [midi-way] between the Earth and
the sun, could alert us to the approach of dangerous space storms well before a conventional craft can.>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midi-chlorians#Midi-chlorians_and_the_Chosen_One wrote:
<<Midi-chlorians are a microorganism in the Star Wars galaxy, first mentioned in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. They are microscopic life-forms that reside within the cells of all living things and communicate with the Force. They are symbionts with all other living things and without them life could not exist. The Jedi have learned how to listen to and coordinate the midi-chlorians. In order to be a Jedi or a Sith, one must have a high enough concentration of midi-chlorians in one's cells.

The word "midi-chlorian" appears to be a portmanteau of "mitochondrion" and "chloroplast", two organelles found in real cells and thought to have evolved from bacteria as endosymbionts inside other cells, as purported in the endosymbiotic theory. Creator George Lucas says that the midi-chlorians are based on the endosymbiotic theory.

An ancient prophecy foretold the appearance of a chosen one imbued with a high concentration of midi-chlorians, strong with the Force, and destined to alter it forever. Anakin Skywalker was believed by many to be the chosen one. He had the highest concentration of midi-chlorians the Jedi Council had ever seen. He was possibly conceived by the midi-chlorians; Anakin was born without the assistance of a male. Lucas has said in interviews that Luke Skywalker had the same total midi-chlorian count that Anakin did at birth, though this does not necessarily make him the chosen one because Anakin did exactly what the prophecy foretold by coming back from the Dark Side and destroying Emperor Palpatine.

In Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Palpatine tells Anakin that a Sith Lord, Darth Plagueis, had the ability to use the Dark Side to influence midi-chlorians to create life and to prevent people from dying.>>
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