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An Ultra-Powerful Flare Erupted From Our Nearest Neighbor Star
popularmechanics ^ | Apr 10, 2018 | By John Wenz

Posted on 04/10/2018 3:24:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun, recently burst forth with one of the most powerful flares ever seen for a star its size. The small red dwarf is generally invisible to the human eye, but this flare may have lit it up bright enough for some naked eye observers to see the event—at least under the right conditions, according to Alison Youngblood, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

According to the team's findings, the star brightened by a factor of 68 during the "superflare," unleashing 316,227,766,000 petajoules (316,227 petawatts) of energy.

Proxima Centauri is just 4.2 light years away, but it's a member of the smallest class of normal stars called red dwarfs, which only emit faint visible light. As such, it sits at magnitude 11—whereas the human eye can see magnitudes up to 6 or 7. (A low magnitude number indicates a high brightness, and some solar system objects are bright enough to dip into negative numbers on the scale.) The flare event placed the star at magnitude 6.8, which would have been as bright as a dim star on a clear, very dark night.

When the flare originally took place two years ago it was detected by the Evryscope, a nightly sky survey telescope that connects 24 consumer-grade camera lenses to look for transient events and transiting planets. The flare was 10 times more powerful than any ever witnessed from Proxima Centauri, which is already known for its quite volatile nature.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: acesat; alphacentauric; apod; astronomy; catastrophism; proximacentauri; proximacentaurib; reddwarf; science; xplanets
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To: Moonman62
How would the oxygen get there?

The same way it got here.

Without oxygen or ozone, the flare UV rays would gradually photolyze an unprotected steam atmosphere, ocean water, ice, or water vapor into H2 and O2. The H2 will eventually escape into space, thus gradually enriching the atmosphere with oxygen.

21 posted on 04/10/2018 7:27:38 PM PDT by Spirochete (GOP: Gutless Old Party)
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To: BenLurkin; Tzaphon; Daffynition
I have no idea.

Watt?

22 posted on 04/10/2018 7:36:24 PM PDT by Ezekiel ( All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Ezekiel

That is excellent!


23 posted on 04/10/2018 7:44:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Spirochete

The oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere came from photosynthesis.


24 posted on 04/10/2018 8:58:25 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Ezekiel

Laff riot!

That make-up on Carson is fantastic.


25 posted on 04/11/2018 6:03:04 AM PDT by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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To: Ezekiel
432 = 9

Sonic Geometry : The Language of Frequency and Form

Sonic Geometry 2 : Communicating with the Universe in 432hz

Very good!

26 posted on 04/11/2018 10:04:20 PM PDT by Tzaphon (EL CHIIM)
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To: Tzaphon
Excellent. Check the "Factor 9" chart at 12:55 in the first video.

Specifically A♭. Read as Ab (אב).

207... 414... 828

Ohr... ohr ein sof... Tzafnat Paaneach

1440 minutes in a day:

1-4-40 (אדם)

432 + 9 = 441 (אמת)

"Adam is also in mispar katan gematria nine, for he alone from the entire universe was graced with the seal of truth from his Creator."

http://www.betemunah.org/nine.html

God’s seal (in Creation) is truth (in Hebrew, emet, spelled out by the final letters of the three last words in the account of Creation: bara elokim la’asot,” ” …God created ‘to do’”). The last letter or seal of the word emet, “truth,” itself – the seal of God’s seal – is the letter tav, simple faith, the conclusion and culmination of all twenty-two forces – letters – active in Creation.

>>>

FORM

A dalet joined to a nun.
A stamp or seal.

http://www.inner.org/hebleter/tav.htm

dalet + nun, 54...

Gen 49

16. Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel:
17. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that bites the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward:
18. I have waited for your salvation, O Lord:

The sons of Dan: Chushim (חשים, משיח, חמיש)

18. But God led the people around, through the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea; and the people of Israel went up armed (וחמשים) out of the land of Egypt:

540 (דן) = 54 (דלת נון) = harmonic 5th

The last letter or seal of the word emet, “truth,” itself – the seal of God’s seal – is the letter tav, simple faith, the conclusion and culmination of all twenty-two forces – letters – active in Creation.

Dan, the gatherer of all the camps:

That Moshiach's festival is celebrated specifically on the last day of Pesach is not merely because Moshiach will redeem us from the last exile. Being last has a significance beyond mere numerical order, for that which is last performs a unique function. When the Jews journeyed in the desert after leaving Egypt, they marched in a specific order, divided into four camps. The last to march was the camp of Dan, which is described by Torah as "ma'asaf l'chol hamachanos" - "gatherer of all the camps." Rashi explains this as meaning that "The tribe of Dan...would journey last, and whoever would lose anything, it would be restored to him.

http://shiratdevorah.blogspot.com/2018/04/moshiach.html

Don't get me started!!

27 posted on 04/12/2018 7:06:16 AM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Tzaphon; Phinneous
There's a lot of fun in there when you connect the concepts with Hebrew.

Like the harmony in the chords, comprised of three keys.

Key (the type on a keyboard): קליד

144, x 3... 432

The keys manifest the voice (קול) of the hand (יד), which IS the world of action (use of the hand), and also speech (what is typed on a keyboard). Same key.

The word derives from κλείς which is from κλείω.

And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

He's even got the seed shape worked in to the picture. The hand, the action, the three lines... all the ideas already summed up over here:

Here is Seed for You

The Talmud informs us that the hei also represents teshuvah—repentance. To appreciate how the form of the letter hei embodies the concept of teshuvah...

...read over here:

Firstly, the word “teshuva” doesn’t mean “repentance”, it literally means “return” In Kabbalah tradition, the word TeShuVaH, is read as “ToShuV H” – return of the letter “heh”. It is talking about the return of the last letter heh of the proper Divine name, Tetragammaton (Havayah).

http://www.quantumtorah.com/the-fifth-force-epilog/

http://www.quantumtorah.com/the-fifth-force/

Re the Tetragrammaton:

Thus, except for a small number of Kabbalists and Karaite Jews, no one claims to know with absolute certainty just how it was pronounced — the only generally accepted fact is that the last Heh in YHWH is silent. In the end, it is impossible to state definitively how it was pronounced.

http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php/Tetragrammaton

Mysteries of the universe! Action means to do, the root of the name Esav. The scale 'default' is the one with no sharps or flats (the one which does not deviate to the right or left to any black key), the key of C (see).

Case in point, toss

קליד translate English

into google and the "translation" is "C". See? D'oh RE MI...

Dumb puns for the win, because that's right out of the Sound of Music, the song meant to teach the notes of the major (Ionian) scale (סולם רביב) to the kids. First one out the gate, on the key of C: "do".

It pays to follow along where this stuff goes on its own because the result always ends up at something so basic a 5YO could understand it.

סולם רביב

Major scale - a great ladder, a grand staircase - 350 (11 out of the 12), which first shows up in Creation, Gen 1.10:

וירא אלהים כי טוב

KEY tov, haha.

Genesis 1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

C what I mean? Back to basics. In Isaac is Abraham's seed called. Isaac - laughter, so there.

Probably a big clue in that to what the sound of the return of the final hei is all about. It's in the movie, about the resurrection of the dead:

"Do-Re-Mi" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. Within the story, it is used by Maria to teach the notes of the major musical scale to the Von Trapp children who learn to sing for the first time, even though their father disallowed frivolity after their mother's death.

Rachel died in 2208, which was 3570 years ago, or 714 x 5 (hei).

קליד

186 + 74 + 20 + 434 = 714

A minimal laugh sound consists of an explosion of air within speech or freestanding. Freestanding laughs include a number of short, rhythmic syllables, each containing the voiceless, glottal fricative h, preceding and/or following either an open-mouthed vowel or a nasal.

the only generally accepted fact is that the last Heh in YHWH is silent. In the end, it is impossible to state definitively how it was pronounced. <<<

Wouldn't that just burn people up though, if the high priest on Yom Kippur - Yom Kippur! - was in the Holy of Holies, laughing.

Well, what can you do..

28 posted on 04/12/2018 9:25:48 AM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Jeremiah Jr; Phinneous
It's worth pointing out after all that, that my original post was to a Johnny Carson skit that ran with the "Who's on First" gag.

Watt? Who wouldn't laugh?

Everything comes around full circle, sometimes way sooner that people might expect.

A laughing high priest? It sure would go a long way in explaining why nobody knew what was being said in there. Nobody but nobody would have been the slightest bit amused.

(Ducking...)

29 posted on 04/12/2018 9:49:09 AM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: BenLurkin
Proxima Centauri is just 4.2 light years away

When the flare originally took place two years ago it was detected by the Evryscope

Maybe the politically correct editors at Popular Mechanics could learn how to edit - flare travelled at twice the speed of light? lol

30 posted on 04/12/2018 10:05:14 AM PDT by eldoradude (Keep calm...we'll get to the carrion part later.)
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To: Ezekiel

This was said in there once: (see halfway down, Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha)

https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.7a?lang=bi


31 posted on 04/12/2018 11:42:40 AM PDT by Phinneous (Moshiach Now!)
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To: BenLurkin
Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun, recently burst forth with one of the most powerful flares ever seen for a star its size.

That's gonna take a lot of Preparation H

32 posted on 04/12/2018 11:57:19 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen)
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To: Phinneous
When you know the notes to sing,
You can sing most any thing.

How singing will help to bring the geula

An excerpt of a recent shiur given by Rav Eliezer Berland, shlita, on Shabbat Shira

Everything is done by way of Eliyahu HaNavi. Everything in the world, Eliyahu does them, he leads them. And techiyat hameitim (the revival of the dead) will also be done by way of Eliyahu… This will be by the hand of Eliyahu, Eliyahu will announce techiyat hameitim, Eliyahu HaNavi will fetch Moshiach Ben David – everything is Eliyahu HaNavi.

Because Eliyahu [who was Pinchas] killed Zimri, he went to kill Zimri, and he wasn’t afraid of Zimri. He picked Zimri up, to a height of 10 metres, he was many tens of metres tall.

https://ravberland.com/complete-redemption-going-come-singing/

Joseph is alive and living in Mizraim,
and has two sons, Menassah and Ephraim.

~ Serach, daughter of "Happy" (a shir)

And on that happy news, the spirit of Jacob came back from the dead.

ישמח ---> משיח

33 posted on 04/12/2018 1:46:46 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Ezekiel
I wonder what this sounds like???

3-D Star Tetrahedron

Key of David?

How it was pronounced?

Nehemia Gordon found it!

1,000 Manuscripts with Yehovah

Ironically I've got a Nusach Sefard Shabbos Yom Tov Siddur with the correct vowel points!

34 posted on 04/15/2018 5:59:28 PM PDT by Tzaphon (EL CHIIM)
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35 posted on 06/05/2021 6:54:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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36 posted on 06/05/2021 6:57:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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37 posted on 06/05/2021 7:01:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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