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Sun Storms Deplete Ozone, Too
An anonymous reader writes "Turns out the sun itself zaps the ozone that protects us from the sun. LiveScience is reporting that the record-setting string of solar storms around Halloween in 2003 (including an X28 flare) set off a cascade of events that depleted the ozone layer over the Arctic in early 2004. In a nutshell, more nitrogen was created, and an unusually strong vortex of high-speed winds aloft brought the nitrogen down, where it contributed to cutting ozone by 60 percent over the polar region. In January, the a European scientist warned residents of the far north to basically stay out of the sun. While chlorofluorocarbons are still blamed for ozone depletion, scientists said this study shows they don't properly account for the sun's impact."
Do not look at record-setting solar storms with remaining good eye.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
man has yearned to destroy the sun.
I'm done using their Java. Here I come Microsoft.
There is only one solution...
Nuke the sun.
You have to hand it to chlorofluorocarbons... All those years in the pokey and they never fingered their co-conspirator - the sun.
I'm a big tall mofo.
In our next story, the drafters of the Kyoto Protocol have revised the agreement so that solar storms count toward each country's polution limits.
Such is the way of the world. And please be able to take care of the joke.
Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
Recent events have showed us that we MUST cause a regime change for the Solarians. No longer must they live under the titanical rule of Sunddam Hydrogen.
This evil dictator has created weapons of mass destruction, and has used them against nearby planets. A few years ago, we had them open their weapon factories to us so we could be sure they destroyed them all. But it has now come to our attention that they have weapons that could destroy the entire world.
We can NOT stand by and let them do this. We must unite and attack them before they can destroy us. Anyone who is not with us, is with them. There is no other choice.
The Earth must attack Sol.
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
So, the cavemen stopped the last ice age with their fires?
I don't think that dust-bowl era farmers wore speedos (but they were out in the sun quite a bit)
A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all right.