This: The sun is going into lockdown? What the heck, 2020? Apparently the sun has entered a lockdown phase, which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine. As if a pandemic and murder hornets weren't enough! What this means is that activity on the sun's surface has fallen dramatically. This is called solar minimum. Solar minimum is underway and it's a deep one. In fact, sunspot counts are revealing that it could be the deepest in the past century. The sun's magnetic field has become weak, allowing extra cosmic rays into the solar system. Excess cosmic rays affect the electro-chemistry of Earth's upper atmosphere and can trigger lightning. Well, I do love lightning, but I'm not so sure about the rest of it. If you want to know what this might be like, look up the Dalton Minimum, which happened between 1790 and 1830. Truly freaky stuff.
This: A US military jet had an encounter with a UFO the size of a suitcase. This apparently happened in March of 2014, but the report has just recently been released. The navy jet passed within 1,000 feet of the object, but could not work out the identity of the aircraft. You can read the full report here: US Military Jet UFO Encounter. It is believed because of the size that this aircraft was an unmanned aerial system, or basically, a drone. However, they can find no evidence of anybody flying drones like that in the area at the time. There is video with audio and someone can be heard saying "there's a whole fleet of them" and "they're all going against the wind". The wind was 120 knots to the west. This report comes just after the more recent reports of UFO sightings were released about a month ago. Again, what the heck, 2020? This is quite the year so far.
This: I feel like shaking hands might become a thing of the past. Did you know that the original purpose of a handshake was to insure the person you were greeting didn't have a concealed weapon? The hand clasp insured that the person wasn't carrying the weapon and the shaking was meant to dislodge any weapon that the person could be hiding up his sleeve. Interesting. Personally, I'm all for us adopting the custom of bowing when greeting people.
This: I recently saw a post of the weirdest looking creature on facebook. On further investigation, it was just a large male moth with his testosterone tube things out. I guess that's a male moth thing. It really did make it look sci-fi. So, let's end today's blog post with some weird bug photos.
Has your Friday been freaky? What are some of the freakiest insects you have ever seen? I'd love to hear about them. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I'll see you Monday!
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