The online home of Light & Sound International - the entertainment technology monthly. Daily News, Video Hub, Events Listings, Marketplace, Recruitment.
This is a factual writeup.
Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.
You ve seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You ve heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world.
Fools.
The Earth is built to
last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne
ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you ve had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy.
Before NASA’s Europa Clipper mission takes off to investigate and see what kind of outlook a future lander would have, scientists need to know how deep a probe would have to reach in order to have some chance at discovering life, if it exists. Planetary research scientist Emily Costello of the University of Hawaii at Manoa has an idea.
“Because Europa is bombarded by radiation captured by Jupiter and because it is tidally locked, it runs into radiation as it orbits around Jupiter,” Costello tells SYFY WIRE. “The most intense radiation is on the leading hemisphere around the equator. At higher latitudes the radiation is less intense. Less intense radiation means shallower preservation of possible biosignatures.”
David Farland | File 770 file770.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from file770.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.