Gentlemen, the Sun is something very important. We all love that big ball of fire in the sky. In fact, its intense heat and energy are so essential to life that some people actually worship it as a god! Weird people. But I guess they have a point. It's safe to say that lying on the beach on some tropical island wouldn't be the same if we lived in perpetual cold darkness.
On the other hand, things are not all that literally filled with sunlight. There are many scientists who fear the Sun and the chaos that it (yes, it!) can cause. Here's a look at 10 ways the Sun could basically ruin us.
1. Making Interplanetary Travel Nearly Impossible
Folks, one day we'll have to find other planets to colonize if we want to keep human civilization alive. Unfortunately, the Sun will make it as difficult as possible through its radiation. While Earth's magnetosphere protects us from the Sun's deadliest radiation, we are pretty much on our own once we leave the planet. As a result, humans will find it difficult to travel in space for long periods of time. Unless we develop the technology to create spacesuits made from the magnetosphere, I guess.
2. Evaporating Our Water Supplies
Although this article is meant to paint the Sun as a bad person, the truth is that it is currently classified as a main sequence star, the period of its life when it is stable and even good. heart. However, in a trillion years (the year 1,000,002,018 to be precise) it will have grown by 10%, making the Earth so hot that our oceans begin to evaporate. Granted, most of us won't be alive by then. But I feel bad for those of you who will.
3. Coronal Mass Ejections
Although this sounds more like a medical condition, it is actually a solar explosion in which a cloud of plasma is thrown in any direction at millions of miles per hour. While it's unlikely it could destroy the Earth (bravo!) any eruptions coming our way would have the potential to massively disrupt our electrical systems and plunge us back into the Dark Ages. That would be a serious adjustment for everyone. Except the Mennonites, I suppose.
4. Boiling Our Water Supply
Remember in issue #2 we talked about how the Sun will evaporate our water supply? Those were the good old days. It turns out that things will get worse. As more and more water evaporates, it will be trapped in our atmosphere, creating a greenhouse gas effect that will heat our planet to the point where water begins to boil. Eventually all bodies of water will disappear, forcing us to take showers using liquid alternatives like milk and apple juice. Or even pure liquid soap.
5. Helping Water Escape Our Atmosphere
Remember in #4 we…. okay, you get the point. Here we like nostalgia. Although all the water will boil out of the oceans, it will continue to float in the atmosphere. Until, that is, the Sun becomes an angry red giant, at which point the relentless barrage of solar energy will split water molecules into their components which are hydrogen and oxygen. The respective elements will leave our atmosphere and go to a better place, since at that stage "any place other than Earth" will be considered as "better".
6. UV Radiation
Thanks to the depletion of the ozone layer as a result of human activity, the Sun has been getting its revenge by bombarding our planet with ultraviolet (ultraviolent?!?!) rays from the Sun. Yes, everyone we enjoy that bright brown summer tan, but at what price? Well, according to a report published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, skin cancer has been on the rise over the last 30 years.
7. Geomagnetic Storms
In 1859 (also known as the Age of the Dinosaurs), the Sun got really cocky and decided to ruin our day in the form of a huge solar storm. The results were so brilliant that the Northern Lights could be seen from Hawaii! If modern technology (particularly electricity) had existed back then, it would have ruined us. Internet no longer existed to navigate. There were no Kardashians to meet them. We're out of danger, right? In fact, scientists warn that it will most likely happen one day. However, I have no problem, I have a plan. We will simply generate electricity by running the hamsters on small treadmills.
8. Coronal Holes
Simply put, coronal holes are these unipolar open magnetic fields on the Sun that allow the solar wind to escape and, among other things, create those lights above the North Pole known as Aurora Borealis. Those horrible, useless, beautiful lights! In all seriousness, while coronal holes aren't going to kill Earth (although they would if they could!), they can do serious damage to astronauts in space.
9. Solar Flares
Sometimes when the Sun is having a bad day, she expresses her anger by emitting an intense burst of radiation. So strong, in fact, that this release of magnetic energy creates some of the largest explosive events in the entire solar system. Time to panic, right? TRUE! Although NASA insists that a solar flare would never destroy Earth, it terrified us nonetheless. It should be noted that the flares could potentially freeze all of the GPS satellites orbiting our planet, something companies selling paper maps should rejoice about.
10. Eating the Earth
One day the Sun will grow out of control and consume the Earth (and the entire solar system!) along with it. Scientists disagree when this will happen, presumably leading to a lot of shouting and tossing of notebooks about "When will the sun die?" But the main thing is that if you think the Sun is getting us with those first 9 acts, our fiery destruction is definitely serious business. But as a consolation, the Sun will eventually disappear too. A victim of his own greed and insatiable thirst for power.
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