Solar Storm

Pay close attention to any superheroes who live in or come from space (hello, Superman), and youll notice that what theyre wearing is usually sleek, formfitting, and definitely involves spandex. So how are they not getting constantly radiation-bombed? Killer…

Image copyrightGetty Images What would happen if GPS - the Global Positioning System - stopped working? For a start, we would all have to engage our brains and pay attention to the world around us when getting from A to B. Perhaps this would be no bad thin…

Inventing Tomorrow Sarah Cole Columbia University Press (2019) H. G. Wells was, asserts scholar Sarah Cole, a pioneer adept at rescaling the cosmos and humanitys place in it. He straddled the border between science and literature, but not all his complexiti…

Inventing Tomorrow Sarah Cole Columbia University Press (2019) H. G. Wells was, asserts scholar Sarah Cole, a pioneer adept at rescaling the cosmos and humanitys place in it. He straddled the border between science and literature, but not all his complexiti…

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Ancient Assyrian stone tablets represent the oldest known reports of auroras, dating to more than 2,500 years ago.  The descriptions, written in cuneiform, were found on three stone tablets, dating from 655 B.C. to 679 B.C. They predate other known historica…

Ancient Assyrian stone tablets represent the oldest known reports of auroras, dating to more than 2,500 years ago.  The descriptions, written in cuneiform, were found on three stone tablets, dating from 655 B.C. to 679 B.C. They predate other known historica…

Scientists looking to verify the date of a massive solar storm that lit up the skies and left its signature in the rings of trees over 2,000 years ago are getting help from some unlikely sources: ancient Babylonian astrologers and prophets of doom. A team of …

Skip to comments. Ancient Babylonian 'Omen' Has Helped Scientists Verify Timing of an Epic Solar StormScience Alert ^ | 19 OCT 2019 | MIKE MCRAE Posted on 10/21/2019 7:03:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin More than 2,600 years ago, strange red clouds over Mesopot…

Humans have always looked to the sky for signs of what is to come. Ancient Assyrian sky gazers even carved their observations on tablets which have now helped reveal when a major solar storm blasted the planet. The ancient stone documents were messages to ki…