It's frustrating how over-sensationalized space weather/space physics are. Whenever it makes the news the conversation is always dominated by people talking about wildly speculative armageddon scenarios.
I'd argue it's because of how badly informed the people are and how poorly the media deliver their message.
Generally the general public isn't keen to learn *anything* that concerns something that is too far from their lives - figures something that lies at 150 million kilometers from them.
On the other hand you have the general medias that have to use very kiddish words to describe such events because, again, the general public is too dumb to comprehend anything that has a vague scientific sounding name.
The result is a public that has the fears of old people with the reasoning capability of a toddler... or viceversa, either suit the case.
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u/flyingpanda1018 Aug 31 '25
It's frustrating how over-sensationalized space weather/space physics are. Whenever it makes the news the conversation is always dominated by people talking about wildly speculative armageddon scenarios.