orbitando satélites - The Bogotá Declaration

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I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world,
to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to
transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves
with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen (...) Creo en
la locura, en la verdad de lo inexplicable, en el sentido común
de las piedras, en la demencia de las flores, en la enfermedad
reservada para la raza humana por los astronautas del Apolo
(...) Creo en la imposibilidad de la existencia, en el humor de
las montañas, en lo absurdo del electromagnetismo, en la farsa
de la geometría, en la crueldad de la aritmética, en las
intenciones asesinas de la lógica (...) I believe in flight, in the
beauty of the wing, and in the beauty of everything that has
ever flown, in the stone thrown by a small child that carries
with it the wisdom of statesmen and midwives. (...) Creo en
la no existencia del pasado, en la muerte del futuro, y en las
infinitas posibilidades del presente.
I have seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships
on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in
the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be
lost in time...like tears in rain.
images: Cristina Ferrández
brief history of VLF
1894 - During an auroral display in the month of March, British
observers connected telephone receivers to telegraph lines and
were able to hear tweeks and possibly whistlers and chorus.
1919 - “You can hear the grenades fly.” Barkhausen suggested
that these strange sounds might correlate with meteorological
disturbances. Despite extensive testing, he was never able to
reproduce the phenomenon in the laboratory. He finally
concluded that the sounds were of unknown origin.
1970s - the explosion of research into space weather and the
related Natural Radio signals continues, as the ability to
understand these phenomena was essential in order to keep the
growing number of satellites in healthy condition.
1990s - The Internet. The arrival and growth of the Internet
facilitated the exchange of information among Natural Radio
hobbyists and eventually made real time solar and geomagnetic
information available to everyone.
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