Okay, not true. But they do cause headaches, migraines and other symptoms in Humans. http://youtu.be/fXZTwXt19wU We are all going to die .. ELE .. Extinction Level Event .. a massive solar flare is going to fry us in a grotesque and creepy mega meltdown.
Correct. Not. At least, not for a while. But very possible. I'd rather melt by ELE than n.u.k.e. Doesn't matter anyway. Still, current solar activity is worth knowing about. It explains my insomnia and skull crushing headaches.
I heard we're like three days from having terraformed biodomes on mars - all we have to do is like quintuple it's mass, put oceans everywhere for the carbon cycle, bring a whole planet worth of topsoil, and get things to live in a volatile bastardized environment. From there, it's just a simple matter of figuring out planetary propulsion away from the sun, and then another simple matter of figuring out a source of light and heat. Before you know it, we'll be ditching this dead-end rock, we should probably just destroy it as fast as we can. After all, it will take them a while to set up stock exchanges on mars, the whole "life" thing is much easier. As far as that access goes, you might find someone in a legal state or something, who feels they can ship with relative impunity. Or you could go like, hang out at the laundromat with twenty bucks.
24-hour laundromat is strictly out of the question. Dryer number 37, drawer, back left corner. Thanks, pal. Why are Humans so obsessed with Mars? What is it anyway, a big toy? In all seriousness, they couldn't colonize even 100 people up there .. I wouldn't believe they could do it in even 100 years from now. I've always thought it's the most delusional idea Human Beings have ever had. As for destroying Earth .. I think the cosmos will do it long before Human Beings ever will. Gamma burst or solar explosion are my bets.
This is not my idea, I think I read it in a youtube comment or somewhere, but I think it's quite accurate: it's highly arrogant to think we could destroy earth. We are altering it for the moment, but it will keep right on ticking. What we will destroy is our ability to live on earth, and thus, ourselves. This rock doesn't care - and life, in the long run, won't care too much. We'll lose some apex predators, we'll lose some delicate links that will make some chains really crash, think of it as accelerated evolution - and we, too, are subject to that evolution. Mars is great for wishful thinkers who want to abdicate their responsibility on earth - people with no understanding (willfully, or otherwise) of exactly how complex or interdependent or exactly balanced for life of our sort earth is, and who can't deal with the painful truth that not only are we being highly immoral with our behavior, we're committing voluntary extinction - we know better, but allowing some people to be filthy fucking rich is more special to us. Realistically, of course, mars could not support one person - never will be able to, either - it's so far from possible that it's not even worth considering. (I think it's great to go exploring to push science and understanding - just not for the dishonest end of justifying our behavior here on earth with false promises of a cosmic life raft) It's like (the weak minded) timothy leary's old age obsession with leaving earth as a species - the guilt and hopelessness is too much, people just don't care and there's nothing we can do but watch our species prematurely extincted - so some people fabricate an alternative. It's similar to religion, but maybe worse in some ways, because it offers a hope that's totally impossible and thus just as meaningless as an afterlife, but that is much closer to reality, and so, requires much less in the way of mental gymnastics, all you have to do is know something but not quite know enough. It's the species-wide version of religion: the promise that our species will live on when in fact, it won't. But don't worry, I'm pretty sure that before our extinction there will be a gradual decline, there will be quite a while when earth resembles the "white mountains" trilogy (with the tripods and all, except, you know, WITHOUT the tripods), and it will actually be pretty cool - then the left over tech and such will really be used up, weather will be too violent, and all the rest of that, and we'll have a few generations of cave people, and then either resemble the apes from whence we came, or just be killed off. So yeah, solar flares.
Well I do think there is something driving Humans to want to flee. And, I think the high intellect types don't know or understand it on the base level, for what it is. So they use the beauty of their minds to translate a natural impulse to want to jump ship here .. and couple it with their capacity for ingenuity, innovation and creation .. all with a sense of dignity and pride, and probably even a meticulously calculated morality .. to support all their efforts. Isn't it THE very grandiose thing, of all? There's so much on the ground level reality here that would constitute Human grandiosity (plenty, warranted) but I think wanting to claim the galaxy itself is probably the very most whacky, delusional aspiration. I feel like I'd hurt the senses of some terrific people if they knew what I have to say. Well, that's life.
As for solar flares .. I'm still convinced (and always going to be) that the poling & wiring of the planet, which began in the mid 1800's, is exactly what is causing / contributing to the weakening of the magnetosphere (whatever it's called) and I know EVERYBODY disagrees with me .. I don't care. No planet sprouts up poles and wires all by itself. And nobody is ever going to convince me that a planet that's poled, wired and VIBRATIONALLY transformed is not a matter of some very serious significance. And what happens, during solar flares and solar activity? Power outages. Oh, okay. I don't feel like I need to speak the language of science to be able to add one and one. See, that's NOT normal. It's sort of normal, to us, because we're born here .. exactly as it is. We're used to it. But this is NOT the natural planet. I think it's the electricity itself that's messin' with the whole thing .. Earth, Sun (and Humans) .. whatever. But I'm no scientist, admittedly. Oh well.
Yeah, it's weather...... not particularly concerning, and not caused by copper wires or pushing a few electrons around. I mean, it's quite concerning in the sense that global climate change is clearly at play. But not in any sort of imminent magnetic doomsday type way. The sun doesn't give a FUCK about our electricity.
No, the most damage a MCE (Mass Coronal Ejection, the proper term for them) could do to the Earth is frying our electrical equipment and tossing the planet back technologically about 150 years, that's all. Nobody is going to "fry" or any such nonsense. In order for a human to be adversely effected by a solar flare they would have to be in a plane high in the altitude and at the proper angle/inclination relative to the sun, then they would just be subjected to a good dose of radiation, but still far from anything lethal.
Why bother, but I can't resist. Sigh... Since 1901. That's only about 50 years after the poling & wiring of the planet began. In the past 113 years, the poling & wiring of the planet very well could explain that 230%. Now check this out: Want to know what else can "change the magnetic field"? A poled & wired planet. It stands to logic and reason that if "irregularities" can change the magnetic field, well then DUH, so can an unnaturally poled & wired, electrified planet. It's unnatural because the poles did not sprout up on their own. --- The North Pole likes to wander. Yes, I know - natural occurrence. Shh, and keep reading. I don't know any long term data but the time frame fits, and it fits perfectly. Ah, any chance that the "significantly higher progression" of the north pole is because of the heavier saturation of electricity (as shown in post #10)? I think so. Long story short, the poling & wiring of planet Earth has greater impact and effect than Human Beings acknowledge. I can point to the bits and pieces of information that factor into the equation but that's as far as I can go because I don't speak science. It's up to the people who do speak science to see it from my perspective, realize what I'm saying, and then figure it out and come to terms with it. sigh.
Something else that could be causing it, the elusive so-called Planet X. Scientists are now realizing that there is a very great possibility that such a thing exists, and that it moves on a very long, elongated orbit. If something like that is moving closer, it would affect the magnetic fields of all the planets. Just a thought.