I have heard the use of coronal mass ejections as a place of worry for electronic devices for years and years. It is nonsense. Now, the coronal mass ejection isn't coming from Sol, it is coming from another star system. This is so ridiculous. And what is more ridiculous is the use of such issues in relation to sustainability.
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An eruption of superheated particles in a faraway solar system is a “troubling” sign for us on Earth, according to a recent study from University of Colorado Boulder.
While gazing at the sun-like star EK Draconis, CU astronomers captured the largest-ever “coronal mass ejection,” or solar storm: an event that could “fry satellites in orbit and shut down the power grids serving entire cities” if it hit the Earth head-on....
The University of Boulder is making a statement about this distant issue in relation to Earth. The emissions from these sun activities are into space, a void, on the very side the ejection takes place. In other words, if an ejection occurs on Sol it is a concern, BUT, only a concern if it occurs in direct alignment of Earth. If the ejection occurs on the side of the sun (which is round) on the opposite side of the sun, Earth will never be effected.
Now, through the magic of digitization we can find these sun activities in other star systems. I thought Hubble did a heck of a job, but, I suppose there are far greater satellites and listening posts that can see from far beyond what was normally considered extraordinary.
Solar coronal ejections have absolutely nothing to do with sustainability unless a bolt from across the universe comes through the atmosphere and burns up every electric wire in a wind turbine transmission box. The ODDS of that happening are so small that I would actually think gambling at the nearest casino had better opportunity.
Sustainability on Earth is about maintaining energy generation so that HUMAN BEINGS DON'T BURN IT UP. It has nothing to do with sunspots or solar flairs.
The issue of sustainability which was partially addressed at COP26 is about HUMAN BEINGS behaving themselves in reverence to the only planet capable of protecting them from the universe's harsh void in space and the solar winds that whistle through it.
No one is living in space. No one has left the Milky Way Galaxy. NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 (click here) have made their way to the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy and beyond. It was amazing to hear Voyager 1 do exactly that. I listened. It was fairly calm compared to the radiation that little space craft endured.
We do not have people living anywhere but Earth. I don't expect people will be living anywhere else but Earth in the near future. There are plenty of scientists, some within NASA itself, that believe life outside of Earth's protective atmospheres is impossible. The solar winds and the radiation that accompanies it are far to dangerous for human beings.
I realize space as a frontier is very inviting an sexy, but, the facts are we need to concentrate on Earth's atmospheres and the damage PEOPLE are doing to them as I write this. Earth's greatest threat are the biological creatures that it protects. It is time to come back to Earth and get over the idea of making huge amounts of money on space travel. The idea that human beings will be traveling to another planet like Mars to live and work, have families and play at the nearest beach is far away on the timeline that Earth's sustainability is on. Earth will suffer huge shifts in it's ability to sustain life long before human beings venture into space to actually colonize other planets and solar systems.
| When do people think the sun is going to explode? (click here) |
| Question Date: 2002-02-27 |
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Answer 1:
The Sun is expected to turn into a red giant in about 5 billion years. At that time the inside will get very much hotter, and the outer layers will expand and become much cooler than they are now. The size of the sun as a red giant might get as big as to extend out between the orbits of the earth and Mars, but no one is really sure. Although the temperature of the outer layers of the sun will be much cooler then than they are now, still it will be way too hot for life to exist on Earth. All the oceans will boil away; the atmosphere will be gone, too. But you have nothing to worry about! It is very, very far into the future! |
I suggest we concentrate on Earth, it's benevolence is expected to exist a long time and many generations from now we as people and not just Americans will be able to sustain life elsewhere.
Get over it!
