Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Pakistan Tests Missile Days After India's Launch

Pakistan launched an intermediate-range missile this past Wednesday, just a few days after its neighbor, India, had launched a test missile. Both India and Pakistan has passed their last missiles ranges, greatly. Both missiles are also have the ability of carrying a nuclear bomb. Pakistan and India's tests have already been right after each other so they may show their military capabilities. Despite this feud, Pakistan and India still do trading with each other but still consider each other as enemies. India's latest test was not pointed towards its enemy, Pakistan, but more towards China.

I think that Pakistan and India should just work out some agreement and become allies. If they go to war then the allies of Pakistan and India will get involved. When those allies get involved, the U.S. will get involved because our allies are involved and the U.S. will use all its power to support our allies. Then that will become World War III.

URL= http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistan-tests-upgraded-nuclear-capable-missile-16207647#.T5g3Xlv9ySo

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Satellite captures giant eruption from sun today

The Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured videos and pictures of an enormous eruption of solar flares today. The solar flare occurred at 1:45 p.m. ET and registered as a M1.7 on the intensity scale, which is near the middle of the scale and not very dangerous to Earth. These powerful flares can still disrupt communications and pose a dangerous threat to the astronauts in the International Space Station. The sun is in an active stage of an 11 year cycle, which is expected to peak next year.

I think that this is very interesting and we must learn more about the solar flares to understand them more and try to invent something to either block or reduce the effects of them. I have heard about these before but they were not very active or in the news that much. Now scientists are concerned that they could endanger mankind and trying to learn more about them in my opinion.

URL=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/04/satellite-captures-giant-eruption-from-sun-today/1?csp=34news&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+Reader#.T4245Fv9ySo