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Three More Solar Flares
Evil Adrian writes "Space.com reports that the sun shot off three more solar flares on Monday. This is quite a historic period for solar activity." The article breaks down the recent flares, and what the effects have been. Update: 11/05 01:57 GMT by T : cyberMalex writes "Space.com is reporting the 10th in a string of major solar flares which have been errupting from the sun over the past two weeks. "This one saturated the X-ray detectors on the NOAA's GOES satellites that monitor the Sun. The jury is therefore out on the definitive classification of the flare." "Other scientists have indicated the flare may indeed be an X20 or stronger. Only one X20 event has been seen in recent years, and it was not Earth-directed and had little effect.""
I wish I had my Revelations better memorized.
it appears that i was right the first time. Shamash, the mesopotamian sun god is really angry. run to your ziggurats all ye heathen, and make your sacrifices it is too late and we are decimated under his awesome power!!!
(for a niminal fee, i will be willing to act as priest...)
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George Bush hasn't added the Sun to the axis of evil. That evildoer is most definitely threatening America's freedom. It's attacked Ear^H^H^H America 6 times now! It must be stopped.
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
whether environmentalist might just claim this is due to global warming; i won't be surprised if they do!!!
The Sun cut loose with three severe flares in less than 24 hours through Monday morning
cut loose? Is thr journalist trying to make a gastrointestinal metaphor here?
Dogma - "let's just say we'd like to avoid any empirical entanglements."
From the article:The Sun cut loose with three severe flares in less than 24 hours
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That's nothing special, I've cut loose with three severe flares in one hour before!
Although I didn't cause pretty lights in the sky, I just cleared the room
my tinfoil hat...
... and underwear.
I suggest that nerds everywhere strip off their clothes and go outside. The resulting flare of brightness should knock those coronal mass ejections away from the Earth.
Either we do that or we cover the planet in SPF 45 lotion.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
...and I bet you geek STILL don't get a tan. :)
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
How about sending Red Adair off to the sun to cool things off a bit?
does it affect affect &?*?23% web (_*&_(&*
Yes, it's time for Bruce Willis to blow up the Sun.
Thucydides you are my beeotch... ;-)
Microsun has just released a critical security patch for their Winsun OS. Apparently, the latest solar flares were caused by a major security hole letting important stuff escape.
Gill Bates was reported saying "This is no big deal. Everything is under control. Realy. Security is our top priority and we will make sure this does not happen in the next Sunhorn OS."
You are more than the sum of what you consume. Desire is not an occupation.
Oddly enough, we have to sacrifice Ben and JLo.
The Mayan line in question is "Big head, snake, rock shaped thing, potato with teeth, something that looks like a broken Trane air conditioning unit, something with three legs and four ears, a bigger potato with teeth and breasts, Jabba The Hut, another big head, a pile of little tiny heads, a medium sized head with a smaller head next to it, an aborted fetus someone inflated with an air pump."
The rough translation is "annoying couple (in unity) with mighty hair and (ass) who commit crime of that (terrible) Gigli."
Yes, there's a heiroglyph for "Gigli".
Hey, they were WAY ahead of their time.
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--- Ban humanity.
My fiance's Mom has her own theory as to why they sun is 'wigging out'.
She says it's because a meteor crashed into the sun.
I've had my work cut out for me, trying to explain how 'crashing' a ping-pong ball into Lake Michigan isn't going to do much.
They'll certainly know it was us that caused all the environmental disasters that are currently causing all the problems on the Sun right now. Of course, by then, a "sunny" day will be a distant memory, what with all the pollution-choked skies.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
As will happen later on this month.
Probably won't make it into any history books though.
We will not be scared of these "solar evil-doers." The Sun is part of an "axis of stellar evil" that we must stamp out. We will make no distinction between solar flares, and the stars that sponsor these flares. Our nation will launch a campaign to stamp out all stellar terrorism in our galaxy. These nukyular furnaces of fear will no longer terrorize our nation, or Texas. Anybody wanna peanut?
"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
about it, can YOU name any war that happened 1000 years ago? How about all the leaders of a country somewhere?
No, but around a 1000 years ago there was one of the most dramatic periods of solar activity they'd seen in those times!
NO CARRIER
Scott McNealy is such a fucking loose cannon. When will his handlers reign in his hockey-rage?
FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILDREN, PLEASE STOP SCOTT!
to pull his head out and finally declare the Sun a terrorist? We should be lobbing bombs back at the Sun for firing on us not just once, but 3 or 4 times! Direct shots, no glancing blows. This obvious aggression against the US cannot be tolerated anymore.
Nuke the Sun!
hhIn Bushworld, they struggle to keep church and state separate in Iraq as they increasingly merge the two in America.
Quoted from Spaceweather Perhaps those of us who missed out on the Auroras (BOTH times for me) due to bad weather/timing will get another shot? Think this is still going on in two weeks?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
"Does this recent solar activity make any of you feel uneasy?"
No no, it's a perfectly natural, healthy thing for a star of his age to... want to experiment in self-gratification. You see, a star that age is still learning more about itself, and should be encouraged to do so, in a healthy way. Of course, our star may be doing this a bit too often right now, but it is a novelty that will soon wear off, and once he has become more accustomed to his self, he may do it a lot less. In the meantime, we here on earth must not make our Sun feel ashamed of this, merely support him, and try not to get hit in the face.
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
"No no, it's a perfectly natural, healthy thing for a star of his age to... want to experiment in self-gratification."
:)
Your comparison to solar flares and masturbation made me laugh my ass off! Good job.
I can picture a couple of 1950's parents, and that announcer saying things like, "It's healthy and natural to want to express your sexuality, Sun, but please do it in your own private area, not where the WHOLE WORLD can see..."
No, we need to know about it so we can all eat, drink, and be merry in the time that we have left.... then all feel really stupid (not to mention owe apologies to that girl in the cubical down the hall) when nothing happens ;) Y2K anyone?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Doesn't anyone else see the correlation between Arnold Schwarzenegger becoming governor of California, the Yankees losing the World Series to the Florida Marlins and the repeated solar flares? I'm counting at least 3 horsemen of the apocalypse here.
I was listening to NPR about something like this, but it was a person worrying about a giant planet-killer. My opinion was "so?". I've got other things to worry about than solar flares or planet-killers. It's not like I could get away anyway.
Maybe we DID take the blue pill. You wouldn't remember anyway.
That the apocalypse was narrowly averted in the National league and American leage championship series.
If Boston or chicago had won, I might be donning my tinfoil hat, but as it is, no worries.
"Inattention makes clowns of us all" -Bean
Let me know if there's anything else I can reassure you about,
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Towards the Singularity.
Does this recent solar activity make any of you feel uneasy? I mean... is it time for Bruce Willis to suit up again and save the planet? Nine X-class solar flares... eeeek. That has to be bad.
Don't know about bad. But there was another one - a REALLY big one - about 1930 GMT / 11:30 PST / 2:30 EST. See this page for the X-ray intensity at the GEOS satellites - at least until it horizons out in a few more hours.
Note that the peak is beyond the saturation of the instrument. BIG.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Seemingly, there is no reason for these extraordinary, intergalactical upsets. Only Dr. Hans Zarkov, formerly of NASA, has provided any explanation.
This Mondays unprecedented solar flares are no cause for alarm.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.