• @ThrowawaySobriquet
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    687 months ago

    The sun be crazy. Like, it’s more or less a self-sustaining explosion that’s so far away the energy of it takes almost ten minutes to cross the void to us, but is still so powerful it can burn and blind you if you’re exposed to it for too long. And the effects are only that minor because our magnetosphere blocks most of the solar wind. That wind is coming at us at almost a million miles per hour

    • @Blue_Morpho
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      247 months ago

      That wind is coming at us at almost a million miles per hour

      To be fair, it’s only a few scattered atoms. The astronauts on the moon didn’t have to fight through a hurricane.

      • @[email protected]
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        7 months ago

        It would be kind of interesting (and probably terrifying) if it acted more like our wind tho