I did a paper about solar flares back in the old IASMH days, totally bullshitted the whole thing. It quickly became apparent to me that nobody really understood what the hell the sun was up to most of the time.
In the last couple a years, while completing my astronomy minor, I attended some seminars about current computer modeling attempts at describing the electronmagnetic behavior of the sun. Wacky stuff, made for pretty graphs.... They seem to finally be getting somewhere, though their prediction times still seem to be pretty short.
I enjoy the popularization of astrophysical dangers to earth or humanity, as it encourages us to consider moving some of our population elsewhere.
I don't know, it may be odd of me, but I'm always going to be worried about mankind's future, not just even our tools, so long as all of our eggs are in one gravity well, so to speak.
I'd never heard about the 1859 storm though. That must have led to a rash of great old papers....
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Date: 2003-10-23 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-23 08:28 pm (UTC)http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/10/23/sun_spots031023
Yummy, fried silicon.
Date: 2003-10-23 09:48 pm (UTC)I did a paper about solar flares back in the old IASMH days, totally bullshitted the whole thing. It quickly became apparent to me that nobody really understood what the hell the sun was up to most of the time.
In the last couple a years, while completing my astronomy minor, I attended some seminars about current computer modeling attempts at describing the electronmagnetic behavior of the sun. Wacky stuff, made for pretty graphs.... They seem to finally be getting somewhere, though their prediction times still seem to be pretty short.
I enjoy the popularization of astrophysical dangers to earth or humanity, as it encourages us to consider moving some of our population elsewhere.
I don't know, it may be odd of me, but I'm always going to be worried about mankind's future, not just even our tools, so long as all of our eggs are in one gravity well, so to speak.
I'd never heard about the 1859 storm though. That must have led to a rash of great old papers....
Re: Yummy, fried silicon.
Date: 2003-10-24 07:28 am (UTC)i've been watching these sunspots. i love my binoculars.