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Diabetic Heihachi

@vicgrinberg
Stars are gas. Can we all agree that we are also #StarFarts?

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29 Dec 2022 at 22:28 | Wall-to-wall | Open on nerdculture.de
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Dr. Victoria Grinberg

@DavBot I'd rather describe solar flares as #StarFarts, e.g. this one: esa.int/Science_Exploration/Sp - and if we are caught up in one, this can become rather dangerous, actually, see the so-called Carrington Event

29 Dec 2022 at 22:32 | Open on mastodon.social
Diabetic Heihachi

@vicgrinberg
Another #GreatFilter. A civilization needs enough time of stellar calm to develop and get off the rock spinning inside the shooting gallery. The odds of getting dutch oven'd by your parent star are pretty good in those lengths of time.

29 Dec 2022 at 22:43 | Open on nerdculture.de
Dr. Victoria Grinberg

@DavBot Not really - getting "off the rock" is likely too rare an event and ther isn't much where one could go. But stellar flares to play an important role in habitability studies, e.g. to make sure a planet can keep an atmosphere at all: aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022

29 Dec 2022 at 22:47 | Open on mastodon.social
Diabetic Heihachi

@vicgrinberg
Very cool! This is proposing flares act like a haircut for a planets atmosphere, too little and your all hot and sweaty, too much and your bald and burned.

29 Dec 2022 at 22:58 | Open on nerdculture.de
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