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[-] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

ok! time for all those years of science to finally pay off:

Would you still love "her" if you knew that, every single second, thousands of waves of extreme radiation from the Sun, traveling at a million light-years per millisecond, hits our planet's atmosphere? These waves slowly erode one of the only protections that we have against the Sun. But don't worry, this planet has several more tricks up -- and under -- the crust of the Earth. The iron core of the earth emits a geomagnetic field that extends into space, creating a region called the magnetosphere. This magnetosphere blocks most of the Sun's deadly rays, deflecting them back into space.

(also I didn't get this off of Google. I just have a really good memory. also I added the bolded words)

[-] Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

Um, yes because without those waves plants wouldn't grow and we wouldn't be alive.

[-] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

If those deadly rays are getting reflected back into space, how do astronauts protect themselves against it? Is the ISS beneath the magnetosphere?

[-] ContriteErudite@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

On the side of the Earth facing the sun, the magnetosphere extends about 40,000km into space. On the side facing away from the sun, the solar wind stretches the magnetosphere into a tail that extends well beyond the Moon's orbit. The ISS orbits at an altitude of about 400km; it is well within the magnetosphere.

Because it is above the majority of the atmosphere (and also because it just barely passes through the lowest part of the Van Allen radiation belts), astronauts in the ISS are exposed to higher levels of radiation. However, the ISS has shielding specifically designed to minimize radiation, and astronauts living there are considered to be within safe levels of exposure.

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[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago

Isn't this what Sepiroth wanted to do woth Jenova?

[-] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago
[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago
[-] tomiant@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago

Hey, that's the same path my life is taking!

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Mama knows how we behave. She's taking us to the nearest galactic playground where she'll abandon us.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago
[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago

I don't want to go there. I heard it sucks

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately, you're not driving

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

While I've never seen it illustrated until now, I thought it was kind of obvious that this is our reality from outside our solar system. Is it not?

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's all oscillations.

[-] BanMe@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

IDK sometimes it feels like everything is just gonna explode one day

[-] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Wait a minute... We're moving?

[-] Siethron@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Always have been.

[-] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

We're going in a circle, I like to imagine it like a parent driving around the block to put their kid to sleep

[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago
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