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Solar Cycle 24 May Have Finally Begun

xyz writes "NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center reports that the number of sunspots in October for Solar Cycle 24 outnumbered Solar Cycle 23 for the first time, indicating the start of a new solar cycle. Solar activity was observed to be at a 50-year low, with no sunspots for 200 days this year."

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  1. Re:Effect on climate... by gearloos · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wrong... Go away troll...

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  2. Re:It is a very important issue to communication by Aphoxema · · Score: 0, Troll

    I see what you did there.

    Oh, wait, this is Slashdot, not 4chan

    Maybe if you'd spend less time being witty on Slashdot and properly worshiping and pampering your queen and Goddess you'd find yourself in a slightly more forgiving situation, you insensitive clod!

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  3. It's all a government conspiracy. by tjstork · · Score: 0, Troll

    The truth of the matter is, we are all doomed. The lack of sunspots for 200 days in a row was sufficient to send the earth's climate spiraling towards an ice age. We are going to have 2000 feet high glaciers crashing through New York City any day now, and then they will melt because of global warming and wash the rest of the world away, causing the pent up pressure in the yellow stone supervolcano to be released, flooding the earth with meters thick of ash and molten magma. All of this activity will perturb the orbit of the earth about the sun just enough to put us in front of an NEO, which will impact the earth in 2012... and, just as the tidal wave of fire sweeps across the planet, the last Bush supporter will stand up and say, "Hey Obama people... even Bush wasn't -this- bad!"

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