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Deadly stars: Our sun could also be superflare star
Science Daily ^ | 3/24/16 | Christoffer Karoff, et al

Posted on 03/28/2016 9:41:02 AM PDT by JimSEA

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The Sun is capable of producing monstrous eruptions that can break down radio communication and power supplies here on Earth. The largest observed eruption took place in September 1859, where gigantic amounts of hot plasma from our neighboring star struck the Earth.

Well, I guess there are worse things than Trump or Hillary.

1 posted on 03/28/2016 9:41:02 AM PDT by JimSEA
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Doesn’t matter. Corporate carbon emissions are causing global climate change, and that is a much bigger threat to us than anything that the Sun or ISIS can throw at us. Because Science!


2 posted on 03/28/2016 9:43:20 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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Could I roast some marshmallows?


3 posted on 03/28/2016 9:43:40 AM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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Ping.


4 posted on 03/28/2016 9:44:35 AM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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Thanks ConservativeMind. Recent, related:

What is a superflare? Researchers explain 'devastating consequences' of an eruption from the Sun


5 posted on 03/28/2016 9:53:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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Of course, corporate carbon emissions are culpable. It’s those dirty corporations again, just ask Bernie! What the really smart people know we need to do is adopt an efficient and just system like the Stalinist system in North Korea. That will save the earth because everyone will be eating tree bark and no one (except members of the ruling class) will be driving their SUV to a restaurant.


6 posted on 03/28/2016 10:04:06 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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Couple that with our declining magnetic field due to the poles reversing and we are basically screwed. But the sun is going to sleep soon too.
7 posted on 03/28/2016 10:12:27 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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Coming, soon, to a Great Tribulation near you!

Revelation 16
8 Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.

Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 1196). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.


8 posted on 03/28/2016 10:16:07 AM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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A superflare would damage the ozone layer. EPA would never permit this.


9 posted on 03/28/2016 10:54:33 AM PDT by sphinx
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If it would end this weeks, Did not, Did too, Did not, Did Too.., I am all for it.
10 posted on 03/28/2016 10:58:35 AM PDT by hadaclueonce (This time it is serious.)
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Holocene megafauna extinction event


11 posted on 03/28/2016 11:10:29 AM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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Well I guess that’ll put rest to the global warming/climate change debate.


12 posted on 03/28/2016 11:30:38 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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There didn’t seem to be as many species dying off in inter glacial periods as there were at the start of this current warm period. Your hypothesis seems very plausible. Now you can get a government grant. The problem would be that you aren’t blaming humans and either their blood lust in hunting rather than adopting civilized vegan diets or the massive pollution caused by their use of fire.


13 posted on 03/28/2016 11:41:27 AM PDT by JimSEA
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14 posted on 03/28/2016 12:30:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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15 posted on 03/28/2016 5:37:34 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ('Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those who feel' - Horace Walpole)
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There was a somewhat similar short story in the English Lit. assigned in high school. As I recall, its major character was a statistician who notice a correlation between the increasing number of sun spots and weird behavior in public. One day hundreds of people threw off their clothes in a blizzard, another day thousands of fish, wales and dolphins beached themselves. As time went on more sun spots and more bizarre behavior accelerated. Finally, he went out his door and the sun was one big sun spot surrounded by a bright corona. Then Bang everything abruptly ended as the supernova reached earth.


16 posted on 03/28/2016 6:12:34 PM PDT by JimSEA
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“Couple that with our declining magnetic field due to the poles reversing”

Actually, the magnetic pole took a sharp right and is headed over Canada towards Russia again.


17 posted on 03/28/2016 7:00:25 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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Frank Gaffney, @SecureFreedom , @frankgaffney , about threats to the electric grid.
https://soundcloud.com/jacki-daily/jacki-talks-with-frank-gaffney


18 posted on 03/31/2016 4:13:29 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for)
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Oh, you said superFLARE.

19 posted on 03/31/2016 4:15:14 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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Actually, the magnetic pole took a sharp right and is headed over Canada towards Russia again.

"Another win for Mother Russia!"


20 posted on 03/31/2016 4:19:16 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Rubio: All the slipperiness of Bill Clinton, with none of the smarts.)
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