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Crazy weather events on the horizon.
A major, long-duration solar flare measuring X1.1 erupted from Active Region 3614 at 01:33 UTC on March 23, 2024. The event started at 00:58 and ended at 02:21 UTC. A halo CME was produced…
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Looks like a fair amount of radio interference headed for the southern hemisphere. I’m hoping for some aurora action in the lower latitudes here in the states.
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Man I totally eat up any science program that goes into the actual function of it our sun and others.
That is one of the downsides to cutting the cable or satellite. I don't get the updated tech and knowledge that I've really crave.
If you study the science of suns any at all, you know that we have a fairly special situation with our sun. Our sun is kind of one of those Goldilocks suns. It's large enough to be powerful and have a long life, but not too large, as in a blue giant, to be a short-lived and quite often violent ending sun.
I still don't get this 'new theory' of Jupiter's move inward to the sun and all that that caused, but whatever that might have caused, the ending result is a stable solar system. Long term stability is extremely key and developing
intelligent life, keyword is intelligent!
Even with all this stability, a great deal of it coming from our moon and how it came about to be, The Earth has gone through quite a few mass extinctions. And if you really think about it, the screwed up part about it is that there weren't caused by the same thing.
Given the vast, humanly impossible to fathom size of space, that is rapidly expanding still, Totally without a doubt there are other intelligent species out there. Also given that same vastness, any species out there That would have the ability to come to Earth, would definitely have to originate it from an extremely stable solar system.
Be one thing that is one of my absolute most pet peeves is when I'm watching a program about finding life elsewhere, is them getting excited over a planet that is orbiting a son, such as a red giant or some close orbiting giant planet. It just spins me up to no end.
Ok, let's start off with Red Giants. In order for a currently habitable planet To hold intelligent life, That life could not have originated on that planet. In pre red giant periods, this planet would have been too cold to have supported life in all likelihood.
And these close rotating giant planets......... Just look at the emissions we got going right now.
This planet would have to have a quite large molten iron core with a quite active mantle to produce the magnetic field that would be needed to protect the planet. This planet would also have to have an extremely thick atmosphere. This is all because of radiation and solar emissions as we're seeing currently. Now granted, being in a close orbit, there's gonna be quite a bit of gravitational pull which will naturally generate interior heat within the planet And affect any rotation uh the core. Which this rotation of the core produces the large magnetosphere that will protect the planet.
Of course, a closer orbit to a sun exposes the planet to all the burps and farts and resulting radiation emissions from the sun at a much higher rate than a planet in a larger orbit. The likelihood of a stable enough environment to develop
intelligent life is pretty damn slim.
And to be honest with you, I'm not really concerned about them finding life elsewhere in the universe. If it's not intelligent, I'm really not concerned about it! Sure, it'd be cool to find and to know. But that's it
I was gonna be rude in an article and post a comment about their excitement with finding a planet around a red giant with the possibility of life. I was gonna post the following simple post.
Isn't it a shame, that by the time the light reached us, this red giant has shrunk down to a tiny chunk of radioactive material that would not support any life at all?
I chose not to pee pee on their parade !