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Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/13/2010 8:36:03 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Dec. 13, 2010: On August 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. Filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds of hot gas billowed into space. Astronomers knew they had witnessed something big.
It was so big, it may have shattered old ideas about solar activity.
"The August 1st event really opened our eyes," says Karel Schrijver of Lockheed Martin’s Solar and Astrophysics Lab in Palo Alto, CA. "We see that solar storms can be global events, playing out on scales we scarcely imagined before."
For the past three months, Schrijver has been working with fellow Lockheed-Martin solar physicist Alan Title to understand what happened during the "Great Eruption." They had plenty of data: The event was recorded in unprecedented detail by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and twin STEREO spacecraft. With several colleagues present to offer commentary, they outlined their findings at a press conference today at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.
Explosions on the sun are not localized or isolated events, they announced. Instead, solar activity is interconnected by magnetism over breathtaking distances. Solar flares, tsunamis, coronal mass ejections--they can go off all at once, hundreds of thousands of miles apart, in a dizzyingly-complex concert of mayhem.
(Excerpt) Read more at science.nasa.gov ...
Just Awesome Video ...got to go back to the Astronomy Magazine that had a great article on the Sun.
H/T to the Drudge Report.
Artist's view of the twin STEREO spacecraft studying the sun (image credit: NASA, JHU/APL)
My stomach was just like that last week with a virus and the prep medicine for a colonoscopy. In fact, my internal pictures look similar.
Have to blame it on “bad gas”.
Bump for later
In other words, we have NO IDEA the power of the sun and therefore it's influence on the weather cycles of it's planets. But we DO KNOW your SUV and COW FARTS are killing the earth.
You should find my old colon prep thread
Just did mine in Oct.
I loved the fasting/go lyte cleansing.
However I normally fast once a week.
Try Pinapple flavor next time.
My GI doc uses propenal now so you wake up so refreshed like the best sleep in the world and energetic.
You’ll get use to it in time. It is a must have health prevention test IMO.
I have known more people to stubborn or put it off and end up with intestinal cancer in their later years.
If your tush gets sore from the go lyte use some hydrocortisone and aloe rear wipes.
Right about that time - well, two months after that time - I noticed my plants and landscape all around were out of sorts.
hmm
And this morning on the news peanut farmers dug their peanuts up to find shells, but no nuts.
LMAO! Only on FR can a thread about solar eruptions turn into a discussion about colonoscopy’s. God I love this place!
Depending on your Docs order the quantity prescribed to drink differs.
But I love fasting with tomato juice once a week has the same cleansing effect.
I also love pickle juice/lemon juice too.
So pinapple go lyte was not so bad for my taste.
It does have that gag effect after downing so much so fast.
hey better to gag it down every 5yrs and have the exam/polyp removed than the alternative.
It is rather amazing....
http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2010/12/13/globaldisruption.mov
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Thanks.
to GLobal 2010: Remind me about the pineapple flavor in about 2-3 years. Mine tasted like lemon/coconut or maybe I was just thirsty. Worked well.
They discontinued the pill version because it caused liver damage. That worked like a dream. If we could harness the power of the enema, we would never have to work again, except maybe one day a year.
WARNING: The man next to me had a very advanced polyp that was getting ready to explode. If so, it would have created colon cancer and kill him. He hadn’t had a colonoscopy for about 8 years. Big mistake and one that can kill.
FR readers: after you reach about 55, get the first one and check with your doctors as to how often they want you to have a follow up one (2-3 or 3-5). It is worth it.
To the FR who mentioned how we can link from a solar eruption to a colonoscopy in one threat: EASY. I compare this solar eruption to my 3:00 AM middle of the monsoon eruption of amoebic dysentary I suffered in the middle of the Guatemalan jungle (Tikal) in 1966.
I thought the end of the world was occurring in my stomach. NEVER DRINK WATER OFF THE JUNGLE FLOOR NO MATTER HOW FRESH IT WAS. It is loaded with Montazuma’s Revenger par excellence and is the basis of the Mexican Four-Step Routine.
The sun has nothing on what I suffered that night. More like a fart to an atomic explosion.
Ain’t FR a great site?
I'm not sure what this means other than something different is happening on our sun. 
WOW!!!
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