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Sun Is Moving Slower Than Thought
National Geographic News ^ | May 10, 2012 | Andrew Fazekas

Posted on 05/14/2012 3:47:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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To: sagar

I don’t think algore is aware of this.


21 posted on 05/14/2012 4:48:44 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: SunkenCiv

Seems a rather significant calculation error. Was the old speed a SWAG?


22 posted on 05/14/2012 4:49:34 PM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Does that mean we’re all not as old as we though we were?


23 posted on 05/14/2012 5:02:47 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Obviously this is due to Globull warming, or something.


24 posted on 05/14/2012 5:02:52 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (The United States of America, a banana republic since 1913)
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To: TomGuy

Since the entire Solar System is orbiting around the sun, then it also is moving at 52,000 mph.


25 posted on 05/14/2012 5:05:03 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: Wurlitzer

It was derived from the estimates of distances and size of the galaxy, which relies a bit on red-shifting. Halton Arp ping. :’)


26 posted on 05/14/2012 5:05:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Revolting cat!

“It is true, indeed. Days have been getting longer, I’ve noticed, as sun moves slower across the sky.”

I’ve noticed that too. You’d think the media would catch on. It’s gotta be a conspiracy.


27 posted on 05/14/2012 5:07:26 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: SunkenCiv

Milky Way speed trap ahead!


28 posted on 05/14/2012 5:14:47 PM PDT by 6SJ7 (Meh.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Wait’ll we hit a black hole! Then we’ll really speed up:)


29 posted on 05/14/2012 5:21:35 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: SunkenCiv
"The discovery suggests that the protective boundary separating our solar system from the rest of the galaxy is missing a bow shock, a major structural component thought to control the influx of high-energy cosmic rays."

Stop driving SUVs.
Stop using CFCs.
For God's sake we're destroying the Solar System's protective "ozone layer." And one more thing: It's Bush's fault along with the very evil Exxon-Mobile corporation. And fraking might be to blame too.
And we need affirmative population control.
Why isn't OWS protesting this destruction of our Mother Solar System?

30 posted on 05/14/2012 6:27:34 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: SunkenCiv
Sun Is Moving Slower Than Thought


31 posted on 05/14/2012 6:33:41 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ExCTCitizen

Nahhhh, it is all because of a failure in the Infinite Improbability Drive.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.


32 posted on 05/14/2012 7:12:54 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. That should be a convenience store, not a Government Agency.)
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To: sagar
As a result, there is very little active discussion on the alternatives, except by kooks and those with agenda

By kooks do you mean those of us that realize that SUVs weren't around to cause global warming millions of years in the past and therefore this "theory" that man is significantly responsible for global warming (uh wait a minute is it even warming any more?) is a crock? Do you mean us?

33 posted on 05/14/2012 9:17:52 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk

“By kooks do you mean those of us that realize that SUVs weren’t around to cause global warming millions of years in the past and therefore this “theory” that man is significantly responsible for global warming (uh wait a minute is it even warming any more?) is a crock? Do you mean us?”

First, why does it matter what I think? Second, what do you mean by “us”?

If you really care what about I think, here it is: everybody who is emotionally involved in science has their agenda. So, scientists have their reputation and funding at stake, businesses have their PR and regulations at stake, politicians have their financing at stake, grassroots have their ideology at stake, and regular people don’t give a damn about science, except exploding watermelons and footage of highspeed bullets shattering awatermelons.


34 posted on 05/14/2012 10:13:54 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Lazamataz

Thanks. I was wondering whiskey tango horsefeathers we were going. You’d think somebody would have posted a memo.


35 posted on 05/15/2012 8:40:46 AM PDT by Silentgypsy
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To: SunkenCiv

UNEXPECTED!


36 posted on 05/15/2012 8:43:34 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: sagar

Yeah I think I agree with most of what you said in this last post. Thanks for clarifying a bit where you are coming from.


37 posted on 05/15/2012 5:19:27 PM PDT by plain talk
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