by Archie » Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:07 am
Mmmm.... that's interesting, so we truly could land on a foreign world with the correct counter clock rotation to indicate north in the upper hemi, but magnetically flipped with compass mag north in the bottom hemi?
My thought on solar polar flip was a very wild magneticaly gravitationaly and radiationaly unpredictably stormy-out-there sort of thing, at this solar max, so don't let the kids go joy-riding out in space in THAT weather, so the thought was that flying thro the SAA could perhaps be a tad toxic, due to a truly reduced van Allen protective shield. As opposed to a solar min, with no sun spots and reduced bad stuff out there, or is the solar radiation/wind not changed radically between min and max?
So, as you say it's not a quick flip, how long would our star take to fully flip, then? And does it not do all that precessional wobble, while in flipping? Mmm...I guess it's a ball of nuclear fusion, so guess again wobble isn't significant in star terms.
Total respect Chris for your cool, I read thro a very painful thread!
Archie.
Mmmm.... that's interesting, so we truly could land on a foreign world with the correct counter clock rotation to indicate north in the upper hemi, but magnetically flipped with compass mag north in the bottom hemi?
My thought on solar polar flip was a very wild magneticaly gravitationaly and radiationaly unpredictably stormy-out-there sort of thing, at this solar max, so don't let the kids go joy-riding out in space in THAT weather, so the thought was that flying thro the SAA could perhaps be a tad toxic, due to a truly reduced van Allen protective shield. As opposed to a solar min, with no sun spots and reduced bad stuff out there, or is the solar radiation/wind not changed radically between min and max?
So, as you say it's not a quick flip, how long would our star take to fully flip, then? And does it not do all that precessional wobble, while in flipping? Mmm...I guess it's a ball of nuclear fusion, so guess again wobble isn't significant in star terms.
Total respect Chris for your cool, I read thro a very painful thread!
Archie.