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Surprise Discovery In Earth's Upper Atmosphere
elyons sends word out of UCLA of a completely unexpected discovery in the physics of the Sun-Earth interaction — a previously unknown basic mode of energy transfer from the solar wind to the Earth's magnetosphere. "'It's like something else is heating the atmosphere besides the sun. This discovery is like finding it got hotter when the sun went down,' said Larry Lyons, UCLA professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences. 'We all have thought for our entire careers — I learned it as a graduate student — that this energy transfer rate is primarily controlled by the direction of the interplanetary magnetic field. The closer to southward-pointing the magnetic field is, the stronger the energy transfer rate is, and the stronger the magnetic field is in that direction. [It turns out that] if it is both southward and big, the energy transfer rate is even bigger.'" The researchers have two papers on the discovery coming out in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
Lots of money flowed to W and the neo-cons and now they are gone. See, a massive problem existed; money was thrown at it, and it nearly all went away (well, not the teabaggers; apparently they did not get enough of what ever they want).
So, when you throw money/whatever at a problem, it goes away.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Exactly! Just say it's natural phenomenon! Just like coal burning plants have nothing to do with aerosolized thorium and mercury levels in our waters.
(rolls eyes). As if the Obamacrats would be any better. They'd probably sell the copyright/trademarks/patents to the RIAA, and then we'd all get sued just for looking at them, or reading about the technical manual on the internet ("Oh noes! You did not pay for that."). R's or D's it makes no difference - they are both the same - just with different corporate masters.
Now let's see if the readers will mod you "insightful" (yay Bush-bashing! +1) and me "troll" (boo Obama-bashing! -1).
I suspect they will.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
"It does not appear to matter which congress has it, but which president has it."
uh huh
"the dem controlled congress of the 60's/70's, who paid off most of WWII debt"
Make up yer damn mind already.
You Parisians would be amusing if you weren't so sad. The two party system is one of the greatest evils ever pushed upon mankind.
So the democrats have total control now, so why am I constantly hearing shrill screaming from "the left" about the evil republicans stopping the magical quarter billion person national health care and *never* hearing about the same type of "evil" democrats who are the *real people stopping it*.
If the democrats wanted it they could just vote for it. How does the average "left" wing supporters head not implode from the cognitive dissonance on display at the moment?
Anyway isn't attributing deficits to the President disengenous given the fact that it's the congress that manages the money...
I suspect they will.
Nice reversal! +2 bonus points!