Posted by WorldPeas 1 day ago
But now we have a bunch of kids in different schools and haven't updated our plan.
Does anyone have a plan for what happens if we have a really bad event?
I don't know how much you can plan for that other than "if it happens, try to get home", and then all the usual prepper stuff.
Depending on the kids' ages, you can teach them quite a lot about the Earth's magnetic field and why the aurora concentrates at the poles, how the high-energy particles light up the sky (it's a lot like a neon light), and how the atmosphere shields us from any danger despite the spectacular show.
G4 storms are ~100 per solar cycle (~11 years).
So roughly 9 G4 events/year on average.
It probably wouldn't make sense to calculate "average snow days per month" across an entire calendar year (in most places...), this is the same thing.
Please stop watching that guy, he is a total fraud and knows nothing about physics.
Even with lights in the direct line of the shot you you can get good results - presumably the phone is doing HDR to achieve this.
I’m not in the city, but you’d have to actually be two states away to escape its light (literally not figuratively, according to dark sky maps).
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hypothetical: if a carrington event-esque storm happens during the mission, how badly will the houston <-> orion module communication links be affected?
No, it isn't. It clearly says everything is under control but it would be good to keep an eye on it.