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rstevenson wrote:...why allow magic?

harry wrote:G'day

It's probably easier to live on Io moon of Jupiter. Lots of water and Geothermal energy and fire works for Xmas.

Orca wrote:Then there's Dagobah.

Doum wrote:As for terraforming Mars, Technolycaly speaking it might be possible to do it but i dont think its worthed since it will work only for a few tousand years and then all that atmosphere will have been lost into space.

harry wrote:G'day orca

Europa and Io seem to be the go. I would not worry too much about the volacnoes and the sulpur. We would be living in an enclosed capsule.

Io seems the one to give us free geothermal energy. No carbon trading.

Twelve different vents on Io erupt lava at temperatures greater than 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit, and one may be as hot as 3,100 degrees Fahrenheit. Lavas of this temperature have not been found on Earth for the last 2 billion years.

Question (Q): Are there any threats to the Earth in 2012? Many Internet websites say the world will end in December 2012.
Answer (A): Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012. Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012.

Question

Some scientists are talking about a massive solar storm in the future. Is it true that the sun has been acting unusually in the past 100 years? If a solar storm bigger than usual will take place, how is this going to affect our planet? AND My husband says there will be a huge solar storm that will cause floods and winds and destroy many cities. Where can I go to be safe? AND I've seen pictures that showed these firey things coming out of the sun and it incinerated earth AND Is our magnetic field strong enough right now to protect us from the solar storm? How do you suggest my family prepares for this? AND They say flares are emitted by the sun and cause havoc on earth, like tsunamis, earthquakes, and strong winds. AND Can a solar storm effect people somehow? AND Sir Can Our Sun Produce a Killer Flare?

Solar storms are associated with the 11-year cycle of solar activity, and the next maximum will probably take place in 2013.

On April 25, NASA’s Swift satellite picked up the brightest flare ever seen from a normal star other than our Sun. The flare, an explosive release of energy from a star, packed the power of thousands of solar flares. It would have been visible to the naked eye if the star had been easily observable in the night sky at the time.

The star, known as EV Lacertae, isn’t much to write home about. It’s a run-of-the-mill red dwarf, by far the most common type of star in the universe. It shines with only one percent of the Sun’s light, and contains only a third of the Sun’s mass. At a distance of only 16 light-years, EV Lacertae is one of our closest stellar neighbors. But with its feeble light output, its faint magnitude-10 glow is far below naked-eye visibility.

"Here’s a small, cool star that shot off a monster flare. This star has a record of producing flares, but this one takes the cake," says Rachel Osten, a Hubble Fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "Flares like this would deplete the atmospheres of life-bearing planets, sterilizing their surfaces."

makc wrote:

Orca wrote:Then there's Dagobah.

Since when Dagobah is in solar system? I thought it is undiscovered exoplanet in a galaxy far, far away.

harry wrote:Could our Sun create a solar flare so big that it could be Doomsday flare.
One such flare occured on another star not as big as our Sun.

harry wrote:You maybe right at this point in time. The other Star although smaller seems to have a core with more denisty creating such electromagnetic fields.

This does not mean that our Sun can enter such a phase. I'm not saying NOW but! in the distant future. Our Sun although goes through its 11 yr cycle is quite regular.

January 10, 1995: The Hubble telescope has uncovered surprising evidence that powerful magnetic fields may exist around the lowest mass stars in the universe, which barely have enough nuclear fuel to burn as stars.

Hubble detected a high-temperature outburst, called a flare, on the surface of the extremely small, cool red dwarf star Van Biesbroeck 10, also known as Gliese 752B. Stellar flares are caused by intense, twisted magnetic fields that accelerate and contain gases that are much hotter than a star's surface. The illustration demonstrates the complex nature of this star.

harry wrote:You are mistaken about its rotation. The way you say it implies that the star rotates. This is not the case. Its created by the internal dynamo.

harry wrote:There is an image that I tried to download. but! it did not come out. ??????????