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Something bright and active on the far side of the sun is about to turn toward Earth
http://beforeitsnews.com ^ | July 26th, 2010 | freepressinternational.com

Posted on 07/26/2010 10:10:08 AM PDT by TaraP

OVER THE HORIZON: Something bright and active on the far side of the sun is about to turn toward Earth. Magnetic loops towering over the eastern limb herald its approach:

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory took this picture during the early hours of July 26th. The bright glow revealed by SDO's extreme ultraviolet camera comes from million-degree plasma trapped by overlying magnetic fields. A sunspot is likely at the bottom of it all.

Or maybe two sunspots... NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft is stationed over the sun's eastern limb, and it sees a pair of active regions approaching single file. The one peeking over the limb now is actually the smaller of the two. Readers with solar telescopes should train their optics here.


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To: American Constitutionalist

If we do get blasted bad enough, being on the dark side will help for a very short while.


41 posted on 07/26/2010 10:34:45 AM PDT by listenhillary (Our president is nucking futs)
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To: listenhillary
You know our frequent survivalist threads will pick up on this.

Freepers won't just make laconic statements like "I'm investing in lead, lots of lead..."

They'll say "Yeah I'm buying lead. A two-foot thick wall of it."

42 posted on 07/26/2010 10:38:00 AM PDT by agere_contra (Obama did more damage to the Gulf economy in one day than Pemex/Ixtoc did in nine months)
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To: listenhillary
Being on the dark side would save us, but could you live in a world without Australia?
43 posted on 07/26/2010 10:39:09 AM PDT by agere_contra (Obama did more damage to the Gulf economy in one day than Pemex/Ixtoc did in nine months)
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To: dead; edcoil
Sorry ,dead, my No. 35 was aimed at edcoil. Shudda took my own advice and adjusted my aim.
44 posted on 07/26/2010 10:40:03 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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To: dfwgator

Seems to be off line...

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/aiahmi/browse/browse.php


45 posted on 07/26/2010 10:40:55 AM PDT by TaraP (He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
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Just marking this thread in case of TEOTWAWKI. Or even TEOTW!

Maybe this means I don’t need to mow the lawn today... I better stay inside and FReep all day instead.


46 posted on 07/26/2010 10:43:08 AM PDT by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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To: dfwgator
July 26th, 2010
47 posted on 07/26/2010 10:45:05 AM PDT by TaraP (He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
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To: TaraP
Let me get this right. The feed from the solar satellite that is specifically monitoring this bright object that is just coming over the edge of the Sun has just gone off line?

Well I don't know why I suddenly have this sudden feeling of stark dread.

48 posted on 07/26/2010 10:45:07 AM PDT by agere_contra (Obama did more damage to the Gulf economy in one day than Pemex/Ixtoc did in nine months)
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To: agere_contra

The speed of light in a vacuum is 299,792,458 meters per second or 186,282 miles per second.


49 posted on 07/26/2010 10:45:13 AM PDT by RightWingConspirator (Impeach Zerobama and his band of Commie Czars)
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To: TaraP

Hmmmm ominous! ;)


50 posted on 07/26/2010 10:47:15 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: agere_contra

I found this....

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/aiahmi/browse/browse.php


51 posted on 07/26/2010 10:48:26 AM PDT by TaraP (He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
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To: All

And to think I watched 2012 yesterday.


52 posted on 07/26/2010 10:48:35 AM PDT by misharu (US Congress = children without adult supervision.)
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To: American Constitutionalist

One of my favorite Twilight Zones (or one of those other shows) was the one with I think Burgess Merideth as a bookish guy in New York. He figures out what is causing the moon to be so blood red that night. Calls his buddy in Toyko and just gets static on the line to confirm it.

Finally works up his courage to ask the librarian for dinner at his place as they wait for dawn.


53 posted on 07/26/2010 10:48:57 AM PDT by 21twelve ( UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES MY ARSE: "..now begin the work of remaking America."-Obama, 1/20/09)
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To: agere_contra
If the 3d cam satellite is just sending us this information, would it be a good guess that the solar flare activity is past the horizon now. ?
54 posted on 07/26/2010 10:53:50 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USAis no civility in)
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To: TaraP

Forget the world ending. The important question for us ham radio geeks is, will this finally open up the twenty-meter band again?

}:-)4


55 posted on 07/26/2010 10:54:37 AM PDT by Moose4 (November 2, 2010--the day that "YES WE CAN" becomes "OH NO YOU DIN'T")
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To: RightWingConspirator
That's correct. I was shrieking dire prophecies about the solar wind, which is estimated to move ~ 7500 times slower than the speed of light.

A gamma-ray shock from e.g. a Super Nova would lethally irradiate us with absolutely no warning (unless we observed the Super Nova 'warming up'.)

But a super-intense particle sleet from our own sun would give us some warning. Enough to get a round of golf in, and then board Air Force One.

Which is a point BTW. People on jet-planes may be able to completely avoid the particle effects of a flare by staying ahead of the earth's rotation. Which means that the only survivors of a world-ending flare would be the Obamas and a crop of sycophantic White House journalists.

The horror!


56 posted on 07/26/2010 10:56:40 AM PDT by agere_contra (Obama did more damage to the Gulf economy in one day than Pemex/Ixtoc did in nine months)
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To: agere_contra
If there was e.g. a solar flare that was going to destroy all life: we’d have ~ 40 hours warning of the oncoming proton shock.

So this nebbish and this biker are discussing the end of the world in a bar.

The nebbish asks the biker, so what would you do if you knew we only had 40 hours of warning that we were going to be destroyed?

The biker says he'd hop on the first thing that moved and screw it to death, what would you do???

The nebbish thinks a moment and says I'd stand perfectly still...

57 posted on 07/26/2010 10:56:55 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 548 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: TaraP

58 posted on 07/26/2010 10:58:51 AM PDT by naturalized
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To: agere_contra

yes, but what fun would that be? They wouldn’t have any little people to boss around!


59 posted on 07/26/2010 10:59:26 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: TaraP; All

The real questions America’s dying to answer: Will Lindsey Lohan get out of jail in time for the after party? And waht’s “Bo the First Dog’s” favorite ice cream?


60 posted on 07/26/2010 11:01:18 AM PDT by conservativeharleyguy (Democrats: Over 60 million fooled daily!)
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