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Originally posted by this_is_who_we_are
reply to post by Bedlam
We are currently moving through it according to the Nasa link that I provided in my post. Go back. take a look.
The fact that the Fluff is strongly magnetized means that other clouds in the galactic neighborhood could be, too. Eventually, the solar system will run into some of them, and their strong magnetic fields could compress the heliosphere even more than it is compressed now. Additional compression could allow more cosmic rays to reach the inner solar system, possibly affecting terrestrial climate and the ability of astronauts to travel safely through space. On the other hand, astronauts wouldn't have to travel so far because interstellar space would be closer than ever. These events would play out on time scales of tens to hundreds of thousands of years, which is how long it takes for the solar system to move from one cloud to the next.
"There could be interesting times ahead!" says Opher.
Originally posted by stereologist
The issue is whether or not science sweeps under the cover things that are inconvenient.
Did cosmic rays have a hand in effecting shifts in human evolution, from Palaeolithic times through to the modern day? Has this helped determine not only our physique and behaviour, but also our creativity and consciousness? These are wild notions, yet suddenly they are beginning to appeal to main-stream scientists and astronomers. Indeed, as long ago as 1973 American astronomer and science writer Carl Sagan wrote in his book The Cosmic Connection that human evolution was the result of incoming cosmic rays from some distant neutron star, demonstrating how we are right to think of ourselves as part of a greater whole at one with the cosmos.
Yet is this correct? Is Charles Darwin's theory that evolution is caused merely through survival of the fittest, and the process of natural selection, somehow flawed? The idea of cosmic radiation reaching Earth from deep space has fascinated the scientific world since its discovery following a series of balloon ascents by Austrian physicist Victor F Hess (1883-1964) in 1912. Then when in the late 1920s American geneticist H J Muller (1890-1967) discovered that radiation (he used X-rays and later radium) was a mutagen through his work with Drosophila fruit flies, the subject of whether or not high energy cosmic rays might cause changes in human DNA was voiced for the first time. Muller himself twice wrote about the subject, concluding on each occasion that the normal background fluctuation in cosmic rays reaching Earth was inadequate to explain spontaneous mutations in life forms, whatever their type. Muller was not wrong. Yet had he been privy to modern scientific data which now confirms that at certain times in the Earth's history the solar system has been bombarded with high levels of cosmic rays then he might have thought again.
Originally posted by this_is_who_we_are
reply to post by Bedlam
I'll be checking in periodically to fact check your statements. Try not to slip up again. It just looks bad.
Originally posted by RadicalRebel
reply to post by Bedlam
I did read it thanks, it is relavent
Originally posted by RadicalRebel
Also sorry that you failed to read the thread i linked about suppressed tech.
Originally posted by Bedlam
What? No admission that the article you cited does NOT state that the local fluff is causing an increase in cosmic rays, that it was talking about some possible future cloud, that might happen in 100,000 years? That it's 'wispy hydrogen and helium' and not a river of energy? That you didn't know what 'neutral' meant in context with the word particle, and jumped to a non sequitur?
As i said it is redundant to argue the point, if information is suppressed neither you or i would possess evidence of it.
Sorry that you fail to see the correlations between science and technology as well as the people who do suppress such technologies and ideas.
Also sorry that you failed to read the thread i linked about suppressed tech. Yes, while the opening paragraph did start with solar cells, it was not the point or the entire content of that OP, not to mention the rest of the thread.
For example, Michael Mandeville has done research that has shown that the overall volcanic activity on the Earth since 1875 has increased by roughly 500 percent. The overall earthquake activity has increased by 400 percent just since 1973. Also a man by the name Dr. Dmitriev did a very elaborate calculation of natural disasters. He showed that, if you compare the years 1963 through 1993, the overall amount of natural disasters of all different kinds—whether you are talking hurricanes, typhoons, mud slides, tidal waves, you name it—have increased by 410 percent. There’s a study by Dr. Mike Lockwood from Rutherford Appleton National Laboratories in California, who has been investigating the Sun. He has discovered that, since 1901, the overall magnetic field of the Sun has become 230 percent stronger than it was before.
The changes in the magnetic field might also be responsible for all the mass fish, insect and bird deaths... maybe the change is getting too great and is messing up their natural methods of navigation (earth's magnetic field).
Well, the link i gave that i asked you if you had read was in regards to your question about radiation from the lic effecting us here on earth, but thanks for being so sure of yourself.
As for me moving goalposts and not providing you with info...
You can lead a horse to water but im not wasting my time arguing with you about something that is not even a secondary issue in regards to the thread topic.
Originally posted by stereologist
The issue is whether or not science sweeps things under the rug because they feel it is uncomfortable.
You are dead wrong and none of your posts have shown otherwise.
had there been anything in that other thread you would have mentioned it. You didn't because you were wrong.
Originally posted by stereologist
Where is there any evidence that this interstellar cloud is producing radiation that reaches the Earth's surface?