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Ephemeral third ring of radiation makes appearance around Earth (nature.com)
77 points by youngerdryas on March 1, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Fun fact: the USSR and USA created several artificial radiation belts by testing nuclear bombs in the upper atmosphere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_radiation_be...


Yeah, Starfish Prime is how we learned about the bad, bad EMP monster. And lost about a third of our LEO satellites in orbit at the time.


You gotta love this only comment: "hank salomen said: Are there any possible connections with this phenomenon and HAARP experiements?"

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4122




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