Strange Realm - Ep. 084 - Oct. 20th, 2024

Tonight we bring you a slightly spooky and spine-tingling start to our Halloween countdown as we look at the strangest stories we could find this week, including news the Sun has reached the solar maximum and for the rest of this year and next will be going super-sunspot mode with an up to 12% chance of catastrophic IT communications failure scenario happening! We update you all on last week's Chinese quantum attack on encryption, then we look at the next replacement for the ISS, which will stop operations in 2030, and also read an update about the efforts to bring back the Tasmanian tiger! All of this and then after the break, we take a break from our reading series as Frobisher reads from the collected horror stories of Arthur Machen!

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Notes:
- URGENT! Sun is going bananas!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13970297/urgent-warning-solar-storms-nasa.html
- ISS replacement to have artificial gravity
https://universemagazine.com/en/vast-startup-will-send-the-haven-1-space-station-into-orbit-in-2025/
https://universemagazine.com/en/pneumatic-cannon-will-send-cargo-into-space-at-a-speed-of-30-m/
- Chinese Quantum attack update
https://newatlas.com/quantum-computing/chinese-quantum-computer-hack-rsa-aes-military-grade-encryption/
- Tasmanian Tiger genome reconstructed
https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/most-complete-tasmanian-tiger-genome-yet-pieced-together-from-110-year-old-pickled-head
- Arthur Machen
https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Stories-Classics-Hardback-Collection/dp/0198813163