Giuliana Mafra

Giuliana Mafra: Experiments that could have ended the world! In 1958 the United States discovered that the Earth was surrounded by radiation belts. Scientists were worried that this could affect astronauts and spacecraft, so they came up with a plan: to detonate a nuclear bomb in space. In 1962, near Hawaii, they dropped a bomb into space that was five hundred times stronger than the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. People thought it would just turn into a sparkle in the sky, but when it exploded, the sky was as clear as day for 15 minutes. It created a magnetic pulse so strong that it cut off radio stations, set off emergency sirens, and turned off all street lights. The explosion also created a new artificial radiation belt on Earth that lasted for ten years. If, in this experiment, the Earth's geomagnetic field was permanently damaged, the Earth would be left without protection and would end all life on the planet. Basically,

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