ScienceCasts: The Radiation Belt Storm Probes

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Most spacecraft try to avoid the Van Allen Belts, two doughnut-shaped regions around Earth filled with "killer electrons." This morning NASA launched two heavily-shielded spacecraft directly into the belts. The Radiation Belt Storm Probes are on a two-year mission to study the Van Allen Belts and to unravel the mystery of their unpredictability.

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[Nexus2Eden]

What the hell is a killer electron? lol

[elucid8]

Video is good, too many freaks and dumb-asses on YouTube lately who feel obligated to comment and expose their inherent and unfortunate traits. I should not read the comments anymore.

[67jedi67]

yes i have come across a number of articles reporting doumented climate/weather pattern changes in the last decade or so. we should remember that the whole argument to supress/limit/control other countries and our own with such silly carbon tax ideas because supposedly co2 is destroying our world... plants breathe co2 we breathe it out, stop cutting down forests and acidifying the oceans by burning toxic energy sources all the time and co2 will subside. solar warming is another story..

[titusho2]

People's!!! @2:03 see all of these thousands of satellites hovering over Jehovah's Earth ... May the Meteor "ISON" destroy many of them! May it rain down on these men who sent these metals of dangerous unknown materials (they will be coming down anyway). Just look at all that metal junk!! Rev.11:18! ... "Bring to ruin those ruining the the Earth." How sickening and sad to see all this pollution just above our earth ...they will pay! For this, no doubt! Idiots!

[nickharvey7]

This is an invitation to see an artist theory on the physics of light & time

Based on just two postulates

1 Is that the quantum wave particle function Ψ or probability function represents the forward passage of time itself with the future unfolding photon by photon

2 Is that Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle ∆×∆p×≥h/4π that is formed by the w-function is the same uncertainty we have with any future event within our own ref-frame that we can interact with turning the possible into the actual!

[Silmaryllon]

Pity they didn't stay out when they Nuked It see Starfish Prime 1958

[Silmaryllon]

lol ye right

[Silmaryllon]

urban myth

emmissions from the Sun could interfere with telegraph so its imagined that a giant solar flare could damage our telecommunications and cause disruption, a nasa site tells us to build a faraday cage. There could be a mega flare when Comet 2012 S1 makes its circumnavigation next november if it sundives, it's about 20 kilometers across and on an almost collision course with Mars, between Mars and Jupiter now

[prezence1]

space junk



[Zablazckus]

do you really think so?

[safespot69]

lol