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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.
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."
How about sending Red Adair off to the sun to cool things off a bit?
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.
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!
"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, 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.
Bush - "The more solar flares are shot at us, the more it shows the desperation of the Sun."
"And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman." "Hello." "Good boy."
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.