Japanese Rocket Launches Sun-Probing Satellite
BBC has reported on Japan's scientific satellite launching for studying the sun (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5371162.stm).
The sun is a critical energy source of life on the earth.
But, though it happens in rare cases, the sun emits extraordinary energy to the surrounding space and eventually to the earth, which could destroy normal functioning of human-made electronic systems including artificial satellites flying around the earth.
If such an extraordinary phenomenon happens like it did in 1859, modern societies on the globe will suffer major damages.
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A type of rocket used to launch the Japan's sun-observation satellite is M5.
The M5 rockets have been launched seven times with one failure. This is its last mission, since Japan has already decided to stop using the M5 rockets due to high costs needed for launching it.
Apart from the M5, Japan has the flag-ship rocket H2A the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has already launched ten times and will continue to use.
The H2A rocket is 53-meter long and has a weight of 289 tons.
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The gigantic flares on the sun that emerged in 1859 really heralded the beginning of a new era poor slaves in the U.S. then might have truly wished.
It also became ominous for the feudal samurai regime in Japan, too.
When the sun emits an enormous amount of unusual electro-magnetic energy to the earth next time, we might know that a new era is inevitably coming.
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Japanese scientists like to study the sun.
The Japanese people like an image that the sun is rising from the east horizon, since their comparatively long and thin national land faces the Pacific Ocean eastward.
Therefore, it is natural that an image of the sun is adopted into their national flag.
When you see, in Japan, the sun coming up in the morning over the Pacific Ocean, it looks red, eradiating red arrows of light to all directions of surrounding air of the sky so blue and far; it does not look yellow or white at all.
Nothing is so inspiring as the rising sun in the morning for most Japanese.
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No matter how rich and powerful you might be on the earth, you cannot buy the sun.
And I remember the word of Buddha: "Fools are they who accumulate wealth and die."
Yes, everybody should die poor under the sun as he or she was so born under the sun.
"PROCLAIM MY WORDS TO FAR OFF-SHORES"