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The Sun accidentally blew up a bunch of lost sea bombs in 1972
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Leroy N. Soetoro
Nov 14, 2018, 5:53:58 PM11/14/18
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Without the Sun, none of us would actually be here, so we should be pretty
thankful that it exists at all. That being said, tumbling through space
around a star isn’t always a walk in the park, especially when that star
has a temper.
Every once in a while, the Sun gets restless and spews solar material out
into space at incredibly high speeds. These events, coronal mass
ejections, follow solar flares and result in what we experience on Earth
as a solar storm. As LiveScience reports, a new investigation into a
particularly brutal solar storm back in 1972 has revealed just how
devastating such an event can be, and explains how that particular event
had explosive consequences here on Earth.
The research, which was published in the journal Space Weather, sheds some
light on a little-reported side effect of a solar storm that hit the Earth
on August 4th, 1972. The paper explains that when the solar ejecta reached
Earth, it actually caused bombs to spontaneously explode.
Digging through Vietnam War-era archives from the U.S. Navy, the
researchers discovered that long-forgotten sea mines which were placed
during the conflict actually reacted to the magnetic effects of the solar
storm as it hit the planet. Dozens of the mines, designed with magnetic
detonators that are set off when a ship passes close by, were triggered by
the storm.
“In researching these events we determined that the widespread electric-
and communication-grid disturbances that plagued North America and the
disturbances in southeast Asia late on [August 4th] likely resulted from
propagation of major eruptive activity from the Sun to the Earth,” the
paper reads.
The weapon’s designers couldn’t have possibly imagined that their
underwater mines would be susceptible to magnetic weirdness arriving from
the Sun, but that doesn’t change how scary this may have been for anyone
within earshot.
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denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum
wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
Without the Sun, none of us would actually be here, so we should be pretty
thankful that it exists at all. That being said, tumbling through space
around a star isn’t always a walk in the park, especially when that star
has a temper.
Every once in a while, the Sun gets restless and spews solar material out
into space at incredibly high speeds. These events, coronal mass
ejections, follow solar flares and result in what we experience on Earth
as a solar storm. As LiveScience reports, a new investigation into a
particularly brutal solar storm back in 1972 has revealed just how
devastating such an event can be, and explains how that particular event
had explosive consequences here on Earth.
The research, which was published in the journal Space Weather, sheds some
light on a little-reported side effect of a solar storm that hit the Earth
on August 4th, 1972. The paper explains that when the solar ejecta reached
Earth, it actually caused bombs to spontaneously explode.
Digging through Vietnam War-era archives from the U.S. Navy, the
researchers discovered that long-forgotten sea mines which were placed
during the conflict actually reacted to the magnetic effects of the solar
storm as it hit the planet. Dozens of the mines, designed with magnetic
detonators that are set off when a ship passes close by, were triggered by
the storm.
“In researching these events we determined that the widespread electric-
and communication-grid disturbances that plagued North America and the
disturbances in southeast Asia late on [August 4th] likely resulted from
propagation of major eruptive activity from the Sun to the Earth,” the
paper reads.
The weapon’s designers couldn’t have possibly imagined that their
underwater mines would be susceptible to magnetic weirdness arriving from
the Sun, but that doesn’t change how scary this may have been for anyone
within earshot.
--
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum
wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
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