[mdom]

She's also here a few posts earlier saying hi xD

[ml1201]

I'm just wondering why they cut her, and seemingly out of the blue...

[Lawtan]

*shrugs*

...on another note, this is awesome:



...the black circle is the Earth, if I am reading things correctly

[Den]

Is that the solar wind hitting Earth's magnetic field?

[Potironette]

I wonder what happened with the apartment D:?

*stares at pretty picture*
What is that? What's solar wind :o

[mdom]

I think Lawtan is showing what her powers can do to Earth.

[Lawtan]

>.>
Maybe the last one... xD

...but yeah, solar winds strike the magnetosphere and cause the auroras (northern lights)

[mdom]

It's a solar wind? :O

Man, my sister went to Iceland BUT SHE DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO USE THE CAMERA AND DIDN'T TAKE A SINGLE PIC OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS!! I'm still baffled!!

[Potironette]

Aww, and the pictures would have been so pretty x'D!

I'd never known that was what caused auroras! I'd like to see an aurora in person someday :o

[Den]

So I became an aunt today.

Meet Maverick:

and his brother, Goose:

[Potironette]

Aww they're so cute! I love their names <3

[trystan830]

awww, adorable, Den!

[mdom]

Awww, congrats, Den!!
Those cats are so fluffy and adorable!! I want to eat them!! I mean... pet them.

[Lawtan]

Originally Posted by Den

So I became an aunt today.

Meet Maverick:

and his brother, Goose:

Kitties!! They're adorable!

[mdom]

I saw news about that gif you posted in another forum, Lawtan!
They said the sun can also fry our eletronics D:
don't do that sun
pls
just do the northern lights!!!

[Lawtan]

>.>
The chances of that are low...for the present. They increase over the next thousand/ten-thousand years, if I recall. Though there are some who believe some of the massive blackouts were caused by that. (I think it is just as likely that politically-motivated hackers got into the power grid regulations and overloaded it)

...The biggest risk is that when the Sun starts burning out all the Hydrogen, it will go to Helium, and at the current distance between the Earth and the Sun, the greater intensity of light will render Earth uninhabitable by complex life...then it can start expanding, possibly gobbling up Earth in the process...(But that's in a couple billion years)

Solutions:

Solar Sails - using the very solar winds you saw to push the Earth like a massive ball-like ship into a safer orbit. (We already use this to reduce fuel costs in space...just not with the Earth)

Dyson Sphere - a theoretical technological structure designed to capture and control all emissions of the Sun.