02-08-2017, 01:53 PM
(02-08-2017, 01:30 PM)Cirocco Wrote: It's true that pole shifts have occurred in the past, but it's also true that our sun has never been as old as it is now.
Like my Bubbe used to say, "It's better to have and not need than to need and not have." and "The whole world is shaped like a chicken."
OK, but you indicated that due to the sun's age, it's entering a period of lessened solar flare activity. If that's true, then the sun being older now would just further reduce the chances of a catastrophe.
Besides, there's not really any "having" to be done here. If it were in the cards that a sufficiently massive solar flare could cause an extinction event, there would be even less we could do to prevent it than if we spotted a planet-killer asteroid headed our way. At least we have theoretical plans for maybe dealing with that. A stellar extinction event might as well be the finger of god smiting us, for all we could do about it.
So there's really little point in worrying about it at all, particularly since such a disaster seems pretty low-probability to begin with.
