This week, our producer Caitlin Hofmeister is joining the pod to talk about the Sun, and lending her expertise as a host of the YouTube channel SciShow Space. The Sun affects pretty much everything we do here on Earth, from our weather to our technology. So what schemes have scientists been cooking up to shield the Earth from the Sun? How have solar flares affected humans… and should we be afraid of them? And is “Guy” really a good nickname, or is this star more special than that?
Sources:
[Definition]
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~pberlind/atlas/htmls/note.html
[Truth or Fail]
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/news-blog/geoengineering-solution-no-9-the-fl-2008-09-08/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/blocking-the-sun-is-no-plan-b-for-global-warming/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uoa-ssm110306.php
[Fact Off]
Ocean mines:
https://vva.vietnam.ttu.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/83295
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018SW002024
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WAMUS_Mines.php#Vietnam_War_%22Destructor%22_Mines
http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-068.php#Magnetic_Mines
2012 solar storm:
[Ask the Science Couch]
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/iris/multimedia/layerzoo.html
https://www.space.com/17160-sun-atmosphere.html
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/sun1.html
[Butt One More Thing]
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/georges-bataille-the-solar-anus
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