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"All Quiet Alert" Issued For the Sun
radioweather writes "The phrase sounds like an oxymoron, and maybe it is, but the sun is extremely quiet right now, so much in fact that the Solar Influences Data Center in Belgium issued an unusual 'All quiet alert' on October 5th. Since then the sunspot number has remained at zero — solar cycle 24 has not yet started. There are signs that the sun's activity is slowing. The solar wind has been decreasing in speed, and this is yet another indicator of a slowing in the sun's magnetic dynamo. There is talk of an extended solar minimum occurring. There are a number of theories and a couple of dozen predictions about the intensity solar cycle 24 which has yet to start. One paper by Penn & Livingstonin in 2006 concludes: 'If [trends] continue to decrease at the current rate then the number of sunspots in the next solar cycle (cycle 24) would be reduced by roughly half, and there would be very few sunspots visible on the disk during cycle 25.' We'll know more in about six months what the sun decides to do for cycle 24."
The number of sunspots hits a minimum as the globe warms up. Denials at 11.
Obviously this is due to global warming on Earth caused by humans.
Fusion has just finished its 6 sigma training after 5 billion of years. Which is good time considering that it was only hydrogen taking the training.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
And get Al Gore on the phone, now!
We must take immediate and drastic steps to fight Global Darkening!
Maybe we can get that Kim Stanley Robinson person to write a book? 70 Days of Night?
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Is this a GOOD thing or a BAD thing? Inquiring minds want to know.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Can someone explain what this means to us in laymans terms? I'm just a software geek. I know nothing of this "sun" you speak of.
No, I am drawing a link between the article and humor. Try and keep up.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
The sun is going to burn out and I never even got to post a "first" post on Slashdot. I'm going to die cold and unfulfilled! (Not by sharks with lasers thank god. That's a plus.)
The Generation
I'd say something witty here, but I'm not that bright.
HOLY CRAPOLA I think you've got a reasonable solution to the global warming problem!!!! Mars is too cool for humans, and Earth is starting to get too hot. So, let's send SUV/Factory Emission worshiping Republicans to Mars to warm that planet while we keep all the intelligent people here on earth to relive the dark ages of human history without incandescent bulbs and 18 wheeler trucks. It's brilliant I tell ya! We simultaneously solve the religious war of Global Warming while ridding Earth of Rush Limbaugh fans!
The Generation
I'd say something witty here, but I'm not that bright.
Given that the Sun is itself a large ball of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace in which hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees, and on the surface of which flares and eruptions with the energy of millions of times the entire nuclear arsenal of the planet Earth go off more or less daily, I'd say it's a pretty damn noisy place all the time.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
You Called?
Now everybody listen carefully: GTFO my internet.
Note to self: Stop putting jokes in my insightful comments so I can get something other than +1 Funny!
Technically, only the global warming believers can persist in their claims in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
The other side would be dead.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
"Am I in the pub now ?"
If you don't know, you probably are.
Don't anthropomorphize climate change either. It really hates that.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
"what the sun decides to do "
Please stop anthromorphising astonomical bodies. It just makes them angry.
I've experiments to run, there is research to be done on the people who are still alive.
Given that you say 18 years, not (for example) 21, and are on an English language website gives a good chance that you are British (there are plenty of other options, but it's a pretty good guess). Given that your username is "smoker2", there is a good chance you smoke. Since smoking is banned in British pubs, I am going to guess that you are *not* in the pub right now - you may, however, be sitting outside it.
The more sunspots the sun has, the hotter it gets.
Sorry, but we have a consensus of scientists to prove that the sun has NO effect on the Earths temperature. If the sun went cold overnight, the Earth would still be heating up due to global warming. The ONLY thing that affecting the Earths temperature is human activity. You need to keep up with Algore's speeches.
No no, there isn't proof everyone dies, so we should teach an alternative theory in science that states there is no proof people will die, only observed data that some people have died.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
I offer a third mode of existence for your soul after your body's death:
Cheeseballs.
Fucking Cheeseballs.
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Hmm?
O'WONDERWe're working on it.
Statistically, less than half the humans who have been born have died. So chances are you'll live forever.
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And Netcraft confirms it.
Q: How many days between this all-quiet alert and Sun changing its ticker symbol to JAVA?
A: 42!
It cannot be a coincidence that this magical number popped up here as well. The Sun needs some time to find itself before it decides what to do for the next quart^H^H^H^H^H solar cycle.
Lighten up, Francis.
I had a look earlier, and I could see plenty of spots.
And that could be a problem. Not to worry, I just adjusted the carbeurator setting on my car to "extra sooty", and just for good measure I ate some beans and cabbage.