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I'm not sure what you mean by "terrifying," but I'm pretty sure I don't want anything bad to happen to me.

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Anything in space fits the question really.

But anyway, I keep hearing about these habitable planets. I would take a one man rocket out of here to one of them with an atmosphere, water, and oxygen and just kick it. Maybe bring a solar cell, my switch, and a couple of sandwiches. Figure the rest out.

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You can see most planets with the naked eye, and even at the same time, sometimes.

Or straight from the horses mouth, swpc.noaa.gov/

I'm not sure what the failure rate of satellites would have been, but yeah it's definitely possible that a bunch would have been knocked out.

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> A green comet will appear in the night sky for the first time in 50,000 years.

This green comet will appear in the night sky for the first time in 50,000 years. Green comets are otherwise not unusual. As I mentioned under another similarly worded post, I took this image of comet Hyakutake in 1996.

Yeah clickbait for the masses..

A green comet will appear in the night sky for the first time in 50,000 years. NASA scientists said the comet is expected to make its closest approach to the sun, or perihelion, on Jan. 12, and will be visible to stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere. Those in the Southern Hemisphere should be able to view the comet in February. The comet will shift to the northwest on the horizon throughout January and it will make its closest pass of Earth between Feb. 1 and Feb. 2, according to NASA. During that time, the comet will be 26 million miles away from the planet, according to astronomers.

Under promise. Over deliver.

Okay my bad. I’m still quite sure it would have been powerful enough to fry our satellites etc

You are greatly exaggerating the potential effects of that flare. Also it missed by roughly seven days in the sun’s rotation not earth’s orbit. The distance earth travels in its orbit in a week is nothing compared to the size of a cme.

I don't think it could be confirmed by atmosphere alone, no telling how an atmosphere is composed on an alien planet. Detecting something like CFCs would be a really strong sign but still not 100% if there is some wacky geological process or unknown reactions from alien elements.

Edit: that being said focusing on a planet with CFCs in atmosphere would still be really cool anyway

You're right, I meant to say breathable air and CO2/signs of an industrial society. I wonder how we would confirm an advanced civilization if we 100% detected these things.

I don't think breathable air counts as signs of industry. Although looks like JWST has found a planet with carbon dioxide which is interesting.

So you are right I guess that it could possibly detect industrial emissions.

Interestingly enough the planet with CO2 found is 700 light years away which could hint at industrial life there (but still going to be pretty hard to be certain), but if they were looking at us then they would only see Earth's atmosphere 700 years ago which would have a lot less CO2 then now.

But anyway in terms of electrical emissions, radio waves or seeing constructions on surface (or even orbital) I think it's pretty hard to get anything from the nearest solar system to ours, you can't just take a quick photo so everything is going to be super blurry

flare was hardly "HUGE" that is just clickbait.

It was X1,6 on the open ended X scale. Perhaps an X 12 could be called "Huge"

Look at this site for REAL info

https://www.solarham.net/

Because the Chinese will launch massive rockets the weight of a building up in space and leave them without any plans for their fall, whereas the US sends a satellite that weighs about the same as a truck and catches the thruster rocket in the ocean safely.

The satellite will most likely burn up on re-entry, leaving only tiny fragments if anything that touches the ground. The rocket will not, and will crash and leave a crater somewhere.

That's the difference.

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That sounds nice. I bet its shrapnel will have plenty of space to roam

That actually makes a lot of sense. I get the under promise, over achieve aspect, but the funding part makes a lot of sense as well.