NASA's DISCOVERY : Massive 75,000 Mile Wide Hole in The SUN
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It is a revolutionary discovery which may take part in deciding future of the world and the entire humankind. Lets see what all NASA's DISCOVERY : Massive 75,000 Mile Wide Hole in The SUN is all about !!
First of all NASA found a massive 75,000 mile wide hole and the hole is in the Sun. So, if that sunspot was a sinkhole and if the earth was a car; it will fall right in. Also this colossal Sun's is so big that NASA even gave it a name AR2665. Now the problem with this giant sunspot is that it's capable of producing Solar Flares that could cause radio blackouts here on earth.
In this convening potential radiation storm, the disabling of our Communication Satellite, our GPS and even electricity shortages in some areas. According to NASA a new sunspot group has wrote in an interview it seems to be growing rather quickly. Such sunspots are a common occurrence on the Sun but are less frequent. As we head toward Solar Minima which is the period of low solar activity during its regular approximately you live in your cycle. This sunspots is the first to appear after the Sun was spotless for 2 days and it is the only sunspots group at this moment like freckles on the face of a Sun. They appear to be small features but size is relative the dark core of the sunspots is actually larger than Earth.
Now if you don't know what sunspots are they're basically the cooler areas on the Sun and they are caused by interactions with the Sun's magnetic field. So the more intense the magnetic activities, the more likely sunspots tend to appear and here's the problem when all that energy is released solar flares in storms erupt which are essentially massive solar is a Coronal Mass Ejection : CME. In a really powerful one could even send us back to the dark ages. In fact on July 12 2002 you know the year; the world was supposed to end earth had a really close a near miss with a giant Solar Flares or Coronal Mass Ejection : CME and this was a product of the most powerful storm on the Sun in over a hundred and fifty years and the reason you didn't know was because well no one tell us so I guess we just kind of all literally slept through that one and the thing is if we would have received a direct hit from that one; it could have knocked out all power on earth for not just hours or days but years.
Now imagine that two-hour blackout you experienced I mean that was already pretty enough right with no internet no iPhone. But imagine a complete global blackout for years that could mean the destruction of our social water and maybe even our entire civilization. So yes we did dodged a bullet but don't feel too relieved just yet because according to physicist Pete Riley who published a paper titled on the Probability of Occurrence of Extreme Space Weather Events; he calculated that the odds of a solar storm is strong enough to disrupt our lives in the next 10 years is around 12 percent. Now 12 percent might not seem that high to you and it's not if you're playing a game of paper-rock-scissors. But if someone told you that you could potentially win the lottery and the chance of you winning at 12% you buy a ticket right away!!
So, yeah looking forward to good things to come next up; we've been hearing for years about NASA and his grand plans of sending people to Mars and how we're all going to live there one day and have little human Martian babies and how Earth is pretty much on his last legs and Mars is one of our only hopes for survival of being kind. But here's the thing NASA just announced that well it really can't afford to send anybody there. Anyway, according to Associate Administrator of Human Exploration and Operations “William Gerstenmaier” he can't put a date on humans on Mars and the reason really is at the budget levels we described this roughly 2% increase. They don't have the Surface Systems available for Mars. He also said that although they don't have the money now but they could have it in the future and also that NASA is exploring Moon Missions including establishing a base on the Moon.
He said if they find out that there's water on the Moon and they want to do more extensive operations on the moon to go explore that they have the ability with deep-space gateway to support an Extensive Moon Surface Program. If they want to stay focused more towards Mars they can keep that so. I guess living on the Moon or living on Mars same right? I mean either way we're going to be living in some sort of Space Colony and I just you know walking around breathing room or Mars air. I guess the views different. So yeah it's Depressing Space Story day? We just found out we're too broke to go to Mars and a Solar Flares may come in the next 10 years and fryers. Yeah I'm depressed but let me know what you guys think of these stories and if you have to choose between living on the Moon and living on Mars which one would you pick? So let me throw another of what if scenario at you guys what if tomorrow Solar Flares hits knocks out all our power? No electricity on earth for years what's the first thing you would do let me know in the comments below !!
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Probability of Occurrence of Extreme Space Weather Events
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