Yeah, I think A direct hit from X class CME's is our #1 threat. I think much of the billion tons of matter contained within is collapsed/dark matter/vacuum which can stay in our atmosphere for months, ionizing, condensing and cooling.
http://darkmattersalot.com/2012/11/24/the-anthropic-principle-the-dark-ages-and-a-warning/ I think comets that come into the inner solar system also increase this local vacuum energy. I don't consider myself a doom and gloomer, just trying to understand how this place works. A little vacuum is a good thing. Branes bring rain... On Tuesday, January 28, 2014, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > > > *From:* ChemE Stewart > > > > I kinda agree, we are in a cosmic wash, rinse and repeat cycle with the > vacuum. The 95% and 5% going back and forth between each other. I think > the CMB is because the whole damn place, including our 3 dimensions of > space are decaying all of the time, which sorta sucks for us. > > > > Hey Stewart - > > I won't start a new topic for this, because it is way off topic to begin > with. > > But as the resident prophet of Cosmic Catastrophe, at least with your web > page, here is a new one which you might want to look into. (if you haven't > already covered it). > > The Decline of the Maya. Many theories - none of them good. > > http://www.history.com/topics/maya > > Sometime around 850 A.D. the Maya were almost gone from a thriving > civilization, at its peak -and for no obvious reason other than severe > weather change. Was there a cosmic catastrophe to account for both? > > Maybe. Here is one catastrophe which AFAIK has not been mentioned before > wrt the Maya: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/774%E2%80%93775_carbon-14_spike > > http://phys.org/news/2013-03-large-solar-proton-event-.html > > Which appears to be something like a CME or corona mass ejection from the > Sun which happened in the years 774-775. We know that from ice cores and > tree rings. The date is not in question but the location of maximum effect > is not known. > > There are brief mentions of something in the Northern Hemisphere- a large > "red cross" but this event could have hit Central America spot on - as the > prime target. It could have also partly have caused the "Dark Ages" in > Europe in a trickle-down effect. These things could happen every 1000 years > or so - and we could be overdue. It would wipe out the power grid. > > Anyone working outside in the winter of 774 would have received a medium > sized but fatal dose of gamma radiation when the CME hit, based on the > large spike seen in carbon-14 - a dose which would take years to kill by > cancer. Thus the decline of the Maya. > > There is a NOVA documentary which got me thinking about CME. Scary. > Fortunately, we have an agency which monitors the sun, and can give us a > few hours of warning of a CME. Let's hope that agency is not defunded. > > Jones > > > > >
