Starburst Foundation Profile
The Starburst Foundation is a nonprofit research institute based in Schenectady, New York and Athens, Greece.
It was incorporated in the state of Oregon in January of 1984 for the purpose of carrying out scientific research and public education directed to the betterment of humanity and the planet. The Foundation’s research activities are carried out with the intention of:
1. preserving and protecting the ecosystem of our planet from natural or man-made disturbances,
2. promoting technologies that would improve our everyday life, and
3. improving our understanding of ourselves as human beings and our comprehension of the universe of which we are an integral part.
Starburst serves as a vehicle through which donors may support high-quality leading-edge research necessary to mankind’s survival in this new age.
Are we in Danger from a Local Interstellar Cloud Incursion?
The solar system is currently embedded in the Local Interstellar Cloud, or Local Fluff as it is sometimes called, a gas cloud about 30 light years wide and travelling past us at 29 km per second. At this speed we should be going through it for the next 300,000 years. It has been suggested that this cloud may contain cloudlets having gas densities hundreds of times higher than the Local Interstellar Cloud average. How far away they may lie from the solar system or when they will impact us remains open to speculation. But, one might ask how likely it is that the solar system’s movement through such a high density region will affect the Sun and Earth, whether it will impact us in a way similar to how a superwave has done in the past?
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