I know who would be hit hardest.
Posted on 09/11/2022 5:08:44 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The Sun has been up to some pretty intense shenanigans lately, but a recent eruption on the far side looks to be absolute science gold.
On the evening of September 5 GMT, an enormous coronal mass ejection (CME) was recorded exploding on the far side of the Sun, sending a radiation storm out across the Solar System. It was a type known as a halo CME, in which an expanding halo of hot gas can be seen spewing out around the entire Sun.
Sometimes this means that the CME is headed straight for Earth. However, this eruption was on the far side, so it's heading away, and we won't see any of the usual effects of a solar storm here on our home planet.
But Venus was right in the path of the oncoming storm – and with it, Solar Orbiter, a space probe jointly run by the European Space Agency and NASA that is currently near Venus after a September 4 gravity assist on its mission to take closeup observations of our home star.
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That means it might be headed toward Mars, which is close to solar conjunction with respect to Earth right now.
We have a lot of expensive electronics on and near Mars.
Does this mean, that “The Dark Side of the Moon” will be scorched as Pink Floyd sang?
What a weird coincidence for me.
I just watched Nick Cage’s movie Knowing this morning. It was about a Super Solar Flare that wipes out all life on Earth. The “happy” ending is that his son and a girl his son’s age are taken away by some sort of celestial beings to begin humanity over again on a nice planet somewhere.
It made me wonder if Super Solar Flares were just a movie fiction so I looked it up. They have happened on other stars similar in size to our Sun and they could definitely be big enough to fry life on Earth down to the last microbe.
There is no dark side of the Moon. As a matter of fact it’s all dark.
I’m not sure they would blow up the earth or disintegrate it, as it appears to be happening in the movie, but what it WOULD do is strip the ozone layer away in its entirety, exposing all life to withering ultraviolet radiation. Even those people who somehow got sufficient shelter would soon end up with nothing to eat as all the other life dies off.
We only exist here by the Grace of God.
In 700 million years of complex life, mass extinctions have been either volcanic proliferation like in the Permian 220 million years, or a nasty rock from space like the chicxulub meteor 67 million years ago. No solar flare stuff “recently “
It seemed pretty lighted from the sun, when I watched news reports in the 70's.
I know who would be hit hardest.
It didn’t blow up the planet or disintegrate it. It just burned off everything on it. At one point Cage’s character, an astrophysicist, said it would irradiate the crust down a mile deep.
There have been several sizeable solar flares just in this century. Just nothing anywhere near as big as what has been called a Super Solar Flare.
It looked pretty well lighted last night from where I am.
But that light was from the sun too.
Here's an image I shot when Venus made a transition across the sun, or came between the sun and earth.
And I'm sure the sun has nothing to do with conditions on Venus. ☺
The full moon looked erriely beautiful last night, but damn, I was hoping, that you would be an Apollo 13 moon landing denier.
Prepare for “Global Cooling” .....We really need to go green now!!.... we'll freeze to death if we don't.....
Some follow the science...But I tend to follow the money for my predictions...../s
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