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Letter: Let's look for evidence of interstellar shift on Earth

Published 1 March 2023

From John McIntosh, Birkenhead, Merseyside, UK

“Into the void” suggests we may risk an increase in cosmic rays as our planet passes into a new area of interstellar space in about 2000 years. We entered the area we are currently in around 60,000 years ago. I suggest calculating when previous transitions occurred to see if they tally with events in Earth’s history(18 February, p 38).

Issue no. 3428 published 4 March 2023

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