Couple of interesting stories this week and they are both about NASA.
First of all NASA found a massive 75000 mile wide hole, and the hole is in the SUN.
So here it is and here is the size of earth so yea if that was a sinkhole and earth was
a car, it would fall right in.
Like screech naming his pimples.
This colossal sunzit is so big that NASA even gave it a name, AR2665.
The problem with this giant sun spot is that its capable of producing solar flares that
could cause radio blackouts here on earth.
And this could mean potential radiation storms, disabling of our communications satellites
GPS and even electricity shortages in some areas.
According to NASA: "A new sunspot group has rotated into view
and seems to be growing rather quickly," “Such sunspots are a common occurrence on
the sun, but are less frequent as we head toward solar minimum, which is the period
of low solar activity during its regular approximately 11-year cycle.
This sunspot is the first to appear after the sun was spotless for two days, and it
is the only sunspot group at this moment.
Like freckles on the face of the sun, they appear to be small features, but size is relative:
The dark core of this sunspot is actually larger than Earth,”
If you don’t know Sunspots are basically the cooler areas on the sun, and they are
caused by interactions with the sun’s magnetic field.
So the more intense these magnetic activities the more likely they tend to appear.
But when all that energy is released, solar flares and storms erupt which are essentially
massive solar EMPs and the could knock out power grids and send us back to the dark ages.
In fact on July 12, 2012 you know the year the world was supposed to end, Earth had a
near miss with a solar flare, or coronal mass ejection (CME), from the most powerful storm
on the sun in over 150 years….yea we all just kind of blissfully slept through that
one.
If we would have received a direct hit from that one, it could have knocked out all power
on earth for years...now imagine that 2-hour blackout you experience, that was already
rough but a completely back out for years could mean the destruction of our social order
and maybe even our entire civilization.
But don’t feel too relived physicist Pete Riley, who published a paper titled “On
the probability of occurrence of extreme space weather events,” has calculated the odds
of a solar storm strong enough to disrupt our lives in the next 10 years
is 12 percent.
Next, we’ve been hearing for years about NASA and it’s plans of sending people to
mars and how we are all going to live there one day and have little human Martian babies
and how earth is pretty much on its last leg and mars is one of our only hopes for the
survival of mankind...but here’s the thing, NASA just announced that well, it can’t
afford to send people there.
Hearing this news is like finding out that floyed Mayweather can’t afford to pay his
taxes...so what happened did NASA get an entourage.
According to Associate Administrator of Human Exploration and Operations William Gerstenmaier
“I can't put a date on humans on Mars, and the reason really is . . . at the budget levels
we described, this roughly 2 percent increase, we don't have the surface systems available
for Mars,"
Gerstenmaier said that although we don’t have the money now, we could have it in the
future and also said that NASA is exploring Moon missions, including establishing a base
on Earth’s satellite.
“If we find out there’s water on the Moon, and we want to do more extensive operations
on the Moon to go explore that, we have the ability with Deep Space Gateway to support
an extensive Moon surface program,” he said.
“If we want to stay focused more toward Mars we can keep that.”
So yea I guess living on the moon, living on mars, same different, right?
I mean either way we are going to be living on some space colony and not just walking,
around right?
They tend to appear in regions of intense magnetic activity, and when that energy is
released, solar flares and huge storms erupt from sunspots.
Such a storm could create stunning auroras around the world, as well as play havoc with
power grids, potentially causing blackouts in some areas.