Posted on 10/18/2008 6:05:05 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
The protective bubble around the sun that helps to shield the Earth from harmful interstellar radiation is shrinking and getting weaker, Nasa scientists have warned.
Data has shown that the sun's heliosphere is shrinking
New data has revealed that the heliosphere, the protective shield of energy that surrounds our solar system, has weakened by 25 per cent over the past decade and is now at it lowest level since the space race began 50 years ago.
Scientists are baffled at what could be causing the barrier to shrink in this way and are to launch mission to study the heliosphere.
The Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, will be launched from an aircraft on Sunday on a Pegasus rocket into an orbit 150,000 miles above the Earth where it will "listen" for the shock wave that forms as our solar system meets the interstellar radiation.
Dr Nathan Schwadron, co-investigator on the IBEX mission at Boston University, said: "The interstellar medium, which is part of the galaxy as a whole, is actually quite a harsh environment. There is a very high energy galactic radiation that is dangerous to living things.
"Around 90 per cent of the galactic cosmic radiation is deflected by our heliosphere, so the boundary protects us from this harsh galactic environment."
The heliosphere is created by the solar wind, a combination of electrically charged particles and magnetic fields that emanate a more than a million miles an hour from the sun, meet the intergalactic gas that fills the gaps in space between solar systems.
At the boundary where they meet a shock wave is formed that deflects interstellar radiation around the solar system as it travels through the galaxy.
The scientists hope the IBEX mission will allow them to gain a better understanding of
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George W. Bush of course.
What caused it is the same thing that has caused it before, and will cause it again some millennium. Whatever it is, probably caused at least the "little ice age" and maybe some of the Big Ones, as well.
Invest in long underwear stocks.
New-cycle sunspot 1006 is disappearing over the sun's western limb..
Kinda figured I was doomed for pinging myself all the time.
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Algore has volunteered to fly up there to check this out. He figures that to be safe, he’ll have to go at night.
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Wonder if SUV's and coal fired electric plants are part of the problem? /sarc
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Then we’re SOL aren’t we. There are no virgins.
IIRC, 7 times hotter . . . at least several times hotter.
Hopi’s have a prediction that soonish he sun will be hot enough to destroy all surface life . . . and are planning on taking seeds etc. underground for X weeks.
haven’t been able to verify that narrative but sounds like something the Hopi’s would say.
Probably due to right wing politics and individual freedom. Must be man made./SAR What do these dumbsh**s expect to do about something like that if it really is happening? I guess this is the new scare to replace global warming now that it is dead. Has anyone noticed you hardly hear anything about “climate change” now, it seems to have died a quiet death over the last several weeks and now we have deadly radiation to worry about.
The reason mars has such a thin atmosphere is because it last its liquid core long ago, which in turn caused a loss of the magnetic field, which in turn allowed the solar winds to gradually tear the atmosphere from Mars and will eventually eat all of it.
This is one of the major problems facing scientists who want to terraform mars, without the magnetic field any atmosphere they might happen to develop on Mars would just dissipate into space.
Now please don't ask me a lot of technical questions,what I have just posted is true, I read a lot and I obtained this information from some scientist whose name I can't remember but google should bring you the info on it if you want to go to the trouble to look it up.
The Nasa pukes know all this, as a matter of fact I seem to remember Nasa talking about Mars lack of a liquid core only last year. Do you think maybe they have an agenda with all these scare stories?
Somehow, there is an impression that Ol' Sol could use a few more blemishes, for our sake?
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Wretched writing...
SUVs! Man mad environmentaldisaster! Coal plants! Gas guzzling! America’s fault! Bush’s fault! Women and children hurt worst!
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