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Heliophysics Is Set to Shine in 2025archive.ph/20250103132813/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heliophysics-is-set-to-shine-in-2025/
148 sats \ 1 comment \ @ch0k1 4 Jan science
If our solar system were to lose a few moons or even a planet, the difference might be hard to notice—but lose the sun, and everything changes. Despite its role as neighborhood linchpin, however, scientists still have a whole host of questions about how the sun works and how it influences our daily life on Earth and in space. And 2025 is poised to play a key role in getting answers.
Three factors are combining to make the coming year particularly exciting for the discipline known as heliophysics: the sun’s natural activity cycle, a fleet of spacecraft launches and the release of a blueprint designed to guide the next decade of work in the field.
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And this year those groundbreaking projects will get plenty of new company; NASA alone expects to launch half a dozen missions to study the sun and the myriad ways it shapes the solar system. Among them are the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, designed to help scientists map the outer limits of the sun’s sphere of influence; the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, a pair of spacecraft that will orbit Mars to study the Red Planet’s experience of space weather; and the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH, mission, which combines four small satellites orbiting Earth to study the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona.
Once working with my boss at a Light Tactical Fire (LightTAC Artillery) class. We were going over government acronyms that the class textbook was full of. I was a private and he was a major.
He said, "Private, do you know this one, CHVY?"
"No, sir, I've never heard of that." I responded.
"Come on, " he said, "It's Chevy."
We both laughed. The class was as ridiculous as any convoluted Rube Goldberg machine.
We as a team from the Brigade and later Division ended up rewriting the procedures of most of the textbooks and we realized quickly that even the contractor had no idea how to use the actual software or tactical fire product.
The education contractor just showed up with his buddy to teach the country bumpkin Army National Guard guys how to plug it in, turn the boxes on, send plain text messages and wash the impressive keyboards that were waterproof when things didn't seem to work. Sure we will had spit cups and chewing tobacco in our cheeks but we weren't stupid.
We figured it out and we made it work without the Fiat extracting acronyms of military contractors.
This article is another example of the same. Not once is the cycle of the Great Solar year mentioned. Just an 11 year cycle. What 11 year cycle? It's just a given. As if the 12 signs of the zodiac and the 12 months and the 12 parts of the Great Year were merely a pseudoscience. No they came up with 11 years. And when was this 11 year cycle discovered? Probably the same way that climate change has been monitored since the 1930s.
Fiat Funded science is no good. LOL this will be the great accomplishment of the 21st century.
Did anyone bother to reflect on IMAP as an Internet mail protocol? Of course not, that's counterproductive to the STAY IN YOUR LANEism. (SIYL pronounced "goofy").
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