Voyager hits wall of fire at edge of solar system 54,000-90,000 degrees Fahrenheit

[Oldcarpy2]

But again, the changes in the heliospbere are not random. Just from forces we don't fully understand or possibly measure at the moment. 

If a light bulb burns out and you trip over furniture looking for a flashlight, is any of that random. The life expectancy one bulb is predictable within reason. The furniture is in the room. You can't see in the dark, especially when it was just brightly lit. All of the factors causing the trip are predictable and not really random. Do you see what I am getting at? Things only look random because an individual might not understand everything that led up to a given event.

Man made solar climate change, obviously....

[quintessentone]

Man made solar climate change, obviously....

"The Solar System has been Flying Through the Debris of a Supernova for 33,000 Years"

The Solar System has been Flying Through the Debris of a Supernova for 33,000 Years - Universe Today

"Only a small fraction of debris in the ISM reaches the inner solar system, on the order of 3-6%. The rest is deflected by our own version of a cosmic windshield, the Heliosphere, a (relatively) small sphere of energy localized to just our Solar System created by the Sun. In August of 2012, Voyager 1, the farthest human-made object out in the Universe, left the Heliosphere entirely and entered interstellar space. The Heliosphere acts as natural shield around our system protecting us from stellar debris and high energy cosmic rays that could be harmful to life. In fact, it is theorized that proximity to past supernova may have resulted in mass-extinction events on Earth. Understanding our position relative to stellar gas/dust clouds is important because contact with them changes the shape and diameter of the heliosphere which may allow a greater percentage of debris and cosmic energy to enter the inner solar system."

So debris does reach the inner solar system and who knows what's in front of us.



So far, so good? Maybe that supernovae cloud debris has something to with something?

[andy06shake]

We are very 'lucky' to be so protected in that way, also with Jupiter taking most of the incoming potential strikes. Earth and we probably would not exist today without these protections.

Jupiter is like a big vacuum cleaner of sorts

But she can also send asteroids and comets our way 

So it's a double-edged sword.

Mostly keeping the bad stuff away.

But once in a while accidentally hurling a bottle into the crowd.

[rickymouse]

If I am understanding correctly, as our solar system goes through space it makes a bow wake like a ship. This heats up the particles but they are extremely far apart so voyager made it through unharmed: Science article

A huge surfage charge probably built up on the voyager going through that wall which actually repelled the heat from the craft, similar to how the surface charge of metal heat ducts repels most of the heat inside back into the duct.  Also mirrors do a similar thing, same with the windows on the house, and power flowing through the high voltage power lines builds a barrier away from the metal itself, so it doesn't actually melt the power line, the field is where the energy flows along.  Also those little strips of some sort of plastic on some garage doors reflect the heat inside even though they are three to six inches wide with cracks between the slats of plastic.  It is a balmy seventy degrees in the UPS warehouse, and outside that slat door it is really cold when you smoke a cigarette next to it...and not much draft comes through those closed slats.

I have always asked a lot of questions and study that kind of stuff too to feed my curiousity.  Helps that I worked doing heating systems and with electricians in the past, but I never got certified in either of those fields, learning to do that stuff and finding how things work was reward enough for me...plus I made or saved money working with those contractors.

A possible explanation of this in more layman's terms.   But I think there could also be much more than I am aware of involved in this.  If this surface charge wasn't somehow involved, I would be surprised.

[quintessentone]

More on the randomness I believe is out there in the cosmos, which may be in our path or we in it's path, or is an out-of-control element, or rogue factor.

Zombie Star (Magnetar) doom:




So, now, I take back the 'we are lucky' sentiment.