Magnetic Pole Shift? – Satellites Showing Radiation Damage
Southern Africa is experiencing weird vibes, according to scientists studying one of the more profound upheavals awaiting planet Earth. This forthcoming revolution is a reversal in the Earth’s magnetic field, an event that occurs every 500 000 years or so. Signs that the reversal is about to happen again are nowhere more apparent than over Southern Africa, according to Dr Pieter Kotze, head of the geomagnetism group at the Hermanus Magnetic Observatory in the southern Cape. Satellites in low-Earth orbit over Southern Africa are already … Continue reading
Strange emissions by sun are suddenly mutating matter
The angry sun For months mounting fear has driven researchers to wring their hands over the approaching solar storms. Some have predicted devastating solar tsunamis that could wipe away our advanced technology, others voiced dire warnings that violent explosions on the surface of the sun could reach out to Earth, breach our magnetic field, and expose billions to high intensity X-rays and other deadly forms of cancer-causing radiation. Now evidence has surfaced that something potentially more dangerous is happening deep within the hidden core of … Continue reading
Mayans Claim Aliens Lived With Them, Documentary to Release Before ‘End Days’ in 2012
“Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond” is a new documentary currently in production focusing on the Mayan civilization that claims to provide evidence of contact between the ancient tribe and extraterrestrials, the film’s producer and a Mexican government official has announced. Raul Julia-Levy, the film’s producer, said “Mexico will release codices, artifacts and significant documents with evidence of Mayan and extraterrestrial contact, and all other information will be corroborated by archaeologists.” Luis Augusto Garcia Rosado, the minister of tourism for Mexican state Campeche, told … Continue reading
New Forecast: Sun’s ‘Superstorms’ Could Doom Satellites
One of the first images taken by SDO and still a favorite: A solar eruptive prominence as seen in extreme UV light on March 30, 2010. The superimposed image of the Earth gives a sense of just how large these eruptions can be. CREDIT: NASA/SDO Magnetic storms set off by the sun could pose a bigger threat than thought to weather, communication, military and other satellites close to Earth, with a potentially devastating economic impact, scientists suggest. In the new study, researchers found that solar … Continue reading
Solar Megastorm Could Cripple Satellites for a Decade
Satellites not strong enough to withstand sun’s explosions, model shows. Earth-orbiting satellites are designed to withstand the sun’s explosions—but they may not be strong enough to ride out a solar “megastorm,” a new study says. If hit by a powerful onslaught of solar energy and particles, Earth’s atmosphere would be flooded with high-energy electrons accelerated to nearly the speed of light, according to a new computer model. This would hinder operations of low-Earth orbiting, or LEO, satellites. The satellites wouldn’t immediately start falling out of … Continue reading
Solar flare could unleash nuclear holocaust across planet Earth
Forget about the 2012 Mayan calendar, comet Elenin or the Rapture. The real threat to human civilization is far more mundane, and it’s right in front of our noses. If Fukushima has taught us anything, it’s that just one runaway meltdown of fissionable nuclear material can have wide-ranging and potentially devastating consequences for life on Earth. To date, Fukushima has already released168 times the total radiation released from the Hiroshima nuclear bomb detonated in 1945, and the Fukushima catastrophe is now undeniably the worst nuclear … Continue reading
NASA spacecraft observes new characteristics of solar flares
A new assessment of solar flares by a team led by CU-Boulder indicates some are more powerful and last longer than scientists had previously thought, findings that have implications for mitigating damage by solar storms to navigation and communication systems on Earth. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is carrying a suite of instruments including a $32 million University of Colorado Boulder package, has provided scientists with new information that energy from some solar flares is stronger and lasts longer than previously thought. Using SDO’s Extreme … Continue reading
Did X-Class Solar Flares Cause San Diego Power Outage?
Major power outage hits from San Diego to New Mexico on Thursday — (TheWeatherSpace.com) Power is out from San Diego into Arizona, and New Mexico in spots, blamed on hot conditions in the Southern California desert. San Diego Gas and Electric spoke this evening when millions of people were affected with a power outage before 4 p.m. local time. The spokesperson states that “power will be restored soon as other plants come online” but does not have an approximate time for it. The internet is … Continue reading
Solar flares threaten to disrupt devices as sun enters active phase
It sounds like the makings of the next cheesy action flick: The sun begins spewing massive clouds of radiation and electromagnetic charges toward planet Earth. When they hit, they knock out power grids, GPS satellites, airline communications and incite nuclear meltdowns. But, in fact, scientists are warning that this may happen in the next few years, as the sun comes out of relative dormancy and begins emitting solar flares — the phenomenon most famous for creating the Northern Lights, or aurora borealis. The solar flare … Continue reading
Cosmic-Ray Intensity Hits 50-Year High
Planning a trip to Mars? Take plenty of shielding. According to sensors on NASA’s ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) spacecraft, galactic cosmic rays have just hit a space-age high. “In 2009, cosmic ray intensities have increased 19% beyond anything we’ve seen in the past 50 years,” says Richard Mewaldt of Caltech. “The increase is significant, and it could mean we need to re-think how much radiation shielding astronauts take with them on deep-space missions.” The cause of the surge is solar minimum, a deep lull in … Continue reading
