YoRHa Numberless

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"I won't help the one in need—but those who deserve it." ► Picky, demanding, misantropist, vegetarian, demisexual, INFJ-T♂. ► Likes: Samurai culture, Goth, Victorian, Steampunk, Cyberpunk, Videogames, Epic & Emotive stuff... Also on: Twitch/Kick/Youtube

A new NASA study published in Nature suggests there may be no upper limit to how intensely Earth reacts to solar storms. For decades, scientists thought Earth's response capped out, but new data shows solar storm effects on technology could be far worse than realized. 🛰️⚡ 1/4

A diagram featuring a detailed space visualization alongside two comparative line graphs. Top Right: Earth is shown surrounded by a complex network of blue magnetic field lines. Far Right: A blue, curved line denotes the “Bow shock,” which transitions into an orange-red turbulent region labeled the “Magnetosheath.” The “WIND” spacecraft is positioned far to the left in the “Solar wind” stream, connected to a label reading “Measured solar wind strength.” The “THEMIS” spacecraft sits closer to Earth inside the magnetosheath, labeled “Corrected solar wind strength.” Left Graph: Plots “Earth's response [mV/m]” against “Measured solar wind strength [mV/m].” A blue line initially follows a linear path but then flattens out, marked with the text “illusion of saturation due to measurement uncertainty.” Right Graph: Plots “Earth's response [mV/m]” against “Corrected solar wind strength [mV/m].” A pink line continues steadily upward diagonally, labeled as the “True linear response.”