{"id":11404,"date":"2021-05-22T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11404"},"modified":"2021-05-23T11:06:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T18:06:16","slug":"the-sun-always-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/05\/22\/the-sun-always-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sun Always Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/news\/2021\/05\/solar-storms-are-back-threatening-life-on-earth-as-we-know-it.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Penn-Live<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solar storms are back, threatening life on Earth as we know it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/staff\/bamaap\/posts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/resizer\/DENQI5oCctulMFA-L2NJcOv3Q8k=\/450x0\/smart\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/advancelocal\/C2J4HESSBZHCVGYBN2UE2NO5ZU.jpg\" alt=\"Solar storm\"\/><figcaption><em>While invisible and harmless to anyone on the Earth\u2019s surface, the geomagnetic waves unleashed by solar storms can cripple power grids, jam radio communications, bathe airline crews in dangerous levels of radiation and knock critical satellites off kilter.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"CU76KG23CBF4XF2SXV2GGEFWRI\">A few days ago, millions of tons of super-heated gas shot off from the surface of the sun and hurtled 90 million miles toward Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"FS3MSR2H6BEB5POOK5HUZHVKAA\">The eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, wasn\u2019t particularly powerful on the space-weather scale, but when it hit the Earth\u2019s magnetic field it triggered the strongest geomagnetic storm seen for years. There wasn\u2019t much disruption this time \u2014 few people probably even knew it happened \u2014 but it served as a reminder the sun has woken from a yearslong slumber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/news\/2021\/05\/solar-storms-are-back-threatening-life-on-earth-as-we-know-it.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Penn-Live<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Penn-Live Solar storms are back, threatening life on Earth as we know it By\u00a0The Associated Press A few days ago, millions of tons of super-heated gas shot off from the surface of the sun and hurtled 90 million miles toward Earth. The eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, wasn\u2019t particularly powerful on the space-weather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}