by Maol » Tue Mar 04, 2025 4:41 pm
Farmers have been using GPS for at least 30 years to steer tractors for planting and harvesting with accuracy within an inch. Check ads for GPS watches with similar accuracy used by hikers and hunters to keep track of location in back country expeditions, 21st Century trail of crumbs to find your way home. The "military grade" GPS has been available to the public for over 30 years for whoever will pay for the more elaborate systems.
The following link has a humorous description of the effect of the solar storm last May, causing tractors to become "demon possessed" and lose their way.
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?vi ... &year=2024
https://www.popularmechanics.com/scienc ... -tractors/
“Our tractors acted like they were demon possessed,” Elaine Ramstad, an aurora chaser who’s family works a farm in northern Minnesota, told Spaceweather.com. “All my cousins called me during the May 10 storm to tell me that ‘my auroras’ were driving them crazy while they were planting.”
To reconcile this to the subject of this thread, "If all EM waves are particles (aka photons), then how can a radio wave Particle (aka radio photon) be MILES long ?", it is evident the distortion of EM radio waves by outside influence of charged particles is a phenomenon that is another way the EU is actually affecting our daily lives.
I found this GPS distortion effect on farmers' planting was (is) an interesting way to introduce the concept of solar system electrical and magnetic effects to a person who is not familiar with EU, because it provides visual evidence in relation to a concept anyone who ever planted straight rows in a garden can understand.
Farmers have been using GPS for at least 30 years to steer tractors for planting and harvesting with accuracy within an inch. Check ads for GPS watches with similar accuracy used by hikers and hunters to keep track of location in back country expeditions, 21st Century trail of crumbs to find your way home. The "military grade" GPS has been available to the public for over 30 years for whoever will pay for the more elaborate systems.
The following link has a humorous description of the effect of the solar storm last May, causing tractors to become "demon possessed" and lose their way.
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=09&month=12&year=2024
[img]https://spaceweather.com/images2024/09dec24/crookedrows.jpg[/img]
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a63239823/solar-storm-john-deere-tractors/
“Our tractors acted like they were demon possessed,” Elaine Ramstad, an aurora chaser who’s family works a farm in northern Minnesota, told Spaceweather.com. “All my cousins called me during the May 10 storm to tell me that ‘my auroras’ were driving them crazy while they were planting.”
To reconcile this to the subject of this thread, "If all EM waves are particles (aka photons), then how can a radio wave Particle (aka radio photon) be MILES long ?", it is evident the distortion of EM radio waves by outside influence of charged particles is a phenomenon that is another way the EU is actually affecting our daily lives.
I found this GPS distortion effect on farmers' planting was (is) an interesting way to introduce the concept of solar system electrical and magnetic effects to a person who is not familiar with EU, because it provides visual evidence in relation to a concept anyone who ever planted straight rows in a garden can understand.