Space.com ran a hot story yesterday headlined, “
Colossal X-class solar flare erupts from 'rule-breaking' sunspot and Earth is in the firing line. Yep,
even more unique space weather events. This one briefly blacked out shortwave radio communications. Brace for impact.
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In a way, the science mags are running into the same problem media had back during covid, when every new, more terrifying variant, arriving like clockwork every eight-point-three minutes, stretched the journalistic thesaurus to the breaking point. Alarming, dire, dangerous, dreadful, fearsome, formidable, horrifying, and so on until they reached the end of the alphabet: worrisome.
Then they went back to the beginning and started over, patiently and methodically working their way back through the letters, but Newsweek prematurely jumped the queue and ejected the “Doomsday variant.” It was all downhill from there, and reporters limply accepted they’d shot their wad and became a spent force.
This phenomenon is only ‘new’ in the sense that, as we’ve become increasingly mentally vaccinated to media alarmism through a long-term desensitization process, they’ve steadily increased the frightfulness-volume setting to a deafening ’11.’
I fondly recall how, back in the halcyon 90’s, enjoying the post-Soviet peace dividend, media would run much simpler doomsday stories like “Formica: The Silent Killer.” Or my personal, all-time favorite, even beyond covid (to which I’ve now devoted a substantial chunk of my career), the Venn-diagram convergence of about six attention-grabbing media gambits: “
Is Your Bra Killing You?”
(Sorry, I couldn’t help it. Believe it or not, that’s part of the actual picture from the ‘science’ article.)
But now science reporters face a similar problem, relating to the Sun. The main difference this time is
it isn’t made up. And unlike the fake covid crisis, they
aren’t using scare words to describe what’s happening this time, because for whatever reason, whenever there is a
real threat, they always
underplay the dangers and act like giggly middle schoolers trying to keep a secret. But whenever there is
no legitimate threat, they panic like a pack of distressed Minions and break the glass, or at least try to, since there’s no glass left anymore to break.
Anyway, here’s
yesterday’s Live Science headline:
Media is working its thesauruses again (thesauri?), flipping around in increasing desperation trying to find new and bigger ways to describe the “gargantuan,” off-the-charts solar activity this year, which, and I repeat,
has no effect whatsoever on Earth weather.
How unique is this year? It’s gotten to the point that NOAA now has an “Aurora Forecast:”
You guys know I
never indulge in cheap End Times rhetoric, but if you want signs in the Heavens, well, I mean,
come on. (Note: End Times are
good, not scary.)
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