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Galactic Superwaves

Galactic Superwaves and Core Explosions
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One principal area of research that the Starburst Foundation is involved with is the investigation of Galactic superwaves, intense cosmic ray particle barrages that travel to us from the center of our Galaxy and that can last for periods of up to several thousand years. Astronomical and geological evidence indicates that the last major superwave impacted our solar system around 12,000 to 16,000 years ago and produced abrupt changes of the Earth’s climate. It is estimated that approximately one or two superwaves strong enough to trigger an ice age are presently on their way to us from their birth place 23,000 light years away. There is a finite chance that one such event could arrive within the next few decades.
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Galactic Cosmic Ray Volleys: A Coming Global Disaster
Figure 3. Infrared image of the Galactic center radio-emitting source Sagittarius A* seen at a wavelength of 8.7 microns (red spot marked as GC). Taken with the Hale Telescope. (Courtesy of Stolovy, Hayward, and Herter)

Galactic core outbursts are the most energetic phenomenon taking place in the universe. During the early 60′s astronomers began to realize that the massive object that forms the core of a spiral or giant elliptical galaxy periodically becomes active spewing out a fierce barrage of cosmic rays with a total energy output equal to hundreds of thousands of supernova explosions
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Superwave Predictions
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Superwave Theory Predictions and their Subsequent Verification in the fields of astronomy and climatology

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Superwave Preparedness
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There is an over 90% likelihood that a superwave will arrive in the next 400 years, with a finite chance that one could arrive in the next decade. Currently, radio astronomers are monitoring the cosmic ray synchrotron radiation activity of the Galactic core on a daily basis. They report their findings regularly in IAU (International Astronomical Union) circulars.
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Superwave, Essay by Dr. Bloomer
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Averting Impending Extinction of Our Civilization by a Recurrent “Superwave” from the Galactic Center (Essay by Dr. John Bloomer, Ph.D., Aerospace Engineer)
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Question Regarding the Galactic Center’s Current Effects
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Paul LaViolette attempts to address some questions regarding the Galactic Center’s Current Effects on the Sun and Earth.
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U.S.-Soviet Antarctic program exchange
Soviet vessel Akademic Federov moored in Rotterdam

In 1987, during the peristroika period, Starburst Foundation researcher Paul LaViolette spearheaded the first US-Soviet ice core exchange. This resulted in closer ties between U.S. and Soviet ice core programs. LaViolette’s initial intention was to obtain ice samples from the new deep ice core that had been drilled at the Soviet base in Vostok, Antarctica.
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Paul LaViolette’s 1983 Ph.D. dissertation
Figure 4.5. Solar flare track production rate (corrected for thermal annealing) as a function of time. (adapted from Zook et al., 1977, Fig. 4)

Excerpt from Paul LaViolette’s 1983 Ph.D. dissertation “Galactic Explosions, Cosmic Dust Invasions, and Climatic Change”
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    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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