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Solar Storm Shocks Scientists
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It's interesting how we attempt to understand things in the universe that have no real affect on us but yet we can't fully understand the celestial body that our very existence is dependent on.
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Iron Sun 254
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Yamialpha said:
On the contrary, understanding things further out in the universe helps us to understand things closer to home. For example, if scientists observed a distant star (which was similar in composition to the Sun) behave in a way they've never seen the Sun act, they could conclude that it's possible that the Sun will act that way at some time in the future. Also, looking at other stars can help us understand how the Sun used to be and how it could be in the future.
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Iron Sun 254 said:
True, studying things in the broader universe does tell us more about our own mechanics, but it's interesting to me how much we can understand things far out in the universe (i.e. black holes, other types of galaxies) but yet our Sun, which is right in front of us, still remains a mystery to us. One would still think that a race capable of understanding things hundreds of thousands of light-years away could understand its own star.
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Well...we really don't understand black holes and distant galaxies. We just have theories which seem to fit the data but could be completely wrong. We simply have "good guesses"
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Yamialpha said:
Heck we dont even fully understand the Earth were living on.
We are still trying to understand what / how the diffrent zones of our core act like, how they behave, and what's going on down there.
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Iron Sun 254 said:
True, but until we get better guesses, we have to work with what we've got.
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