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Humans may have accidentally created a radiation shield around earth
- gruez 9y agoLink should be changed to original: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasas-van-allen-probes-spot-man-made-barrier-shrouding-earth https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasas-van-allen-pr....
- amelius 9y agoThe field seems directional. What will this shield do to radiation coming from larger angles of inclination? Is it unsafer to live near the polar circles?
- jelly 9y agoThe youtube video seemed very hand-wavey, I found the paper that the NASA link refers to on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03390 https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03390 I think the relevant part starts at section 8.3, page 48, but it's quite dense so I wasn't able to glean much more from it!
- dyukqu 9y agoThe recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14366819 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14366819