man-made barrier surrounding the Earth in space.
Also, tests confirmed that the barrier is affecting weather in space beyond our atmosphere. This means that human activity has been affecting space, as well.
This prompted scientists to propose that a geological epoch be named after humanity due to our severe influence. They want to call this epoch the Anthropocene. However, it is good to know that the bubble we created in space is beneficial to us.
Eight years ago, two space probes were launched by NASA. These Van Allen probes were the ones that detected the strange low-frequency barrier while they were monitoring charged particles that were caught in our planet s magnetic field.
Mass extinctions in
vertebrate terrestrial or land-dwelling animals such as amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds occur at a cycle lasting approximately 27 million years.
This figure coincides with reported mass extinctions in ocean life in previous studies, as reported by a new publication by researchers in the
In addition, the study also found that the mass extinctions are in concurrence with known impacts of major asteroids as well as devastating eruptions of volcanoes, with lava outpourings known as flood-basalt volcanic eruptions, which provided the potential and possible cause of various extinctions.
According to the Department of Biology, New York University (NYU) professor and lead study author Michael Rampino, the cycle of 27 million years seem to be followed by the mass extinctions and internal pulse activity of the Earth, along with the impacts of large cosmic bodies such as asteroids.