Re:My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence
by bena on Monday June 22, 2020 @12:52PM
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Yes, we're close enough to Earth that it has a lot more affect on us than the Sun. And the Earth has a magnetic shield. Etc.
The Tsar Bomba did not destroy all life on the planet, did it? A simple solar flare is 5 to 10 magnitudes larger. Yes, small changes, but small changes that don't belong.
We are close enough to the Sun that even if that were detectable at the scale of the cosmos, the distance between the Earth and the Sun is a rounding error at the scales we are talking about.
Appreciate this. We are effectively in the Sun's atmosphere. The entire solar system is. Scale matters.
The Tsar Bomba did not destroy all life on the planet, did it? A simple solar flare is 5 to 10 magnitudes larger. Yes, small changes, but small changes that don't belong.
We are close enough to the Sun that even if that were detectable at the scale of the cosmos, the distance between the Earth and the Sun is a rounding error at the scales we are talking about.
Appreciate this. We are effectively in the Sun's atmosphere. The entire solar system is. Scale matters.