h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

There are lots of things in space starting with F. The most obvious one being a primal activity which is apparently even better out there in zero g than it is here on earth.

And of course it all started with a big bang which is just another euphemism for the F word.


jwf

Oh and don't forget the Ferengi.
Or Flight.

Or Far. Because almost everything is far away.

Someone else suggested Fraunhofer lines. Better to keep it simple. Far would have been good, but I'd already done the "Space is Big" thing somewhere else.

Isn't that a line from an old Hawkwind song?

There's always 'Fusion', then you could get rid of that dodgy bit about the sun 'burning' hydrogen which is of course wrong.

A section on Fusion would explain why a large ball of hydrogen held together by gravity gives off heat and light and I think the main source of energy in the universe deserves a mention.

Con-Fusion-ist say, let there be Light.
And heat.
~jwf~

PS: Say whaddya think of this new theory that the c1908 meteor strike/explosion over Siberia wasn't an asteroid or any kinda falling rock or ice, but was rather a spit of plasma from the sun. The explosion was like so many hydrogen bombs, the shock wave registered thousands of miles away, people across Europe saw it coming down, but no rock or other meteoric debris has ever been found.

Well, in any event, Tunguska doesn't start with an F, even in Cyrillic.

Due to magnetohydrodynamics, plasma from the sun (a flare, prominence, coronal mass ejection (CME), etc.) might play havoc with electronic devices by inducing currents when it approaches Earth, but the Earth's magnetosphere would prevent very much plasma from coming past the thermosphere. Rather, the plasma would encounter the magnetic field lines, and being charged, spiral down them out to behind the Earth. When there is a large magnetic storm due to plasma, we see the aurora, but in order to create a Tunguska fireball we would have to see significantly more matter coming off the Sun than visible even in the large coronal mass ejections, and it would have to be very concentrated in a small area.

Furthermore, if it was due to plasma impacting the Earth, geologists and physicists should be able to detect the "permanent" effects of ionised particles traveling through the Earth there, such as remnant magnetism greater than that in the surrounding area, etc. The case for the comet impact, I think, is currently stronger.

Interesting

Yes, and not before time I might have gone on in my blind and ignorant way for years spreading disinformation. In fact I had been working on a theory of multi-dimensional-cracks that would have explained crop circles as well... but now I know better. Well, I think I do anyways...

Welcome to h2g2 luchiban, if you are in fact new to us and not one of the old ones under a new name .


~jwf~

Quote: "Isn't that a line from an old Hawkwind song?"

Maybe, but the more obvious allusion is right in front of your nose: !!!!!THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY!!!!!

I was being sarcastic!

>> I was being sarcastic! <<

Of course you were m'dear, of course y'were. Not for one single moment would anyone think there actually was a group called Hawkwind.

~jwf~

Nobody would be so stupid as to hawk into the wind, would they?

Which reminds me, how can you brake the wind?

Donovan sighed, "Ah but I may as well try to catch the wind."

But his greatest contribution to underachievement was:
See no van, hear no van, Do-no-van.

Go forth then and catch as much wind as you can. You never know when there may come a shortage.


~jwf~ (in fear of being caught short in a crop circle)

Quote "Which reminds me, how can you brake the wind?"

Using a wind breaker! Duh

the pants or the upper garment?