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Active Sun Fires Off 3rd Huge Solar Flare in 3 Days (Video)
space.com ^ | October 28, 2013 11:16am ET | Tariq Malik, Managing Editor |

Posted on 10/29/2013 7:59:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The huge solar storm occurred late Sunday at 10:03 p.m. EDT (0203 Oct. 28 GMT). It registered as an X-class solar flare — the most powerful type of flare the sun has — and followed two back-to-back X-flares that erupted from the sun on Friday (Oct. 25). NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a video of the new X-class solar flare as it happened.

This latest solar flare erupted from an active sunspot region called AR1875 and triggered a strong radio blackout when it occurred, officials with the NOAA-run Space Weather Prediction Group explained in a status update. The flare also coincided with a massive explosion of super-hot solar plasma — called a coronal mass ejection, or CME — which should reach Earth by Oct. 30 and could trigger minor geomagnetic storms in the planet's magnetic field, they added

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1 posted on 10/29/2013 7:59:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I’m guessing that if we ca see it’s profile it ain’t aimed at us?


2 posted on 10/29/2013 8:04:40 AM PDT by raybbr (I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
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To: raybbr

Not this time.


3 posted on 10/29/2013 8:07:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statemAfter two drive killing INent of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Question: If the sun emits a huge (X-Type) solar flare and there’s nobody around to hear it, it is still man-made global warming?


4 posted on 10/29/2013 8:12:58 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ("It is not the color of his skin, ... it is the blackness that fills his soul")
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To: BenLurkin

And how will this affect ‘global warming’?

Is the IPCC even discussing this type of activity?


5 posted on 10/29/2013 8:13:06 AM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: BenLurkin

Solar Climate Change!


6 posted on 10/29/2013 8:13:13 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: BenLurkin

So THAT explains my extra hot flashes this week! *SMIRK*

(No, seriously. My ‘theory’ here is as sound as Global Warming...)


7 posted on 10/29/2013 8:15:35 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: BenLurkin

I think the sun might be reacting eltrically to the approach of comet Ison. More evidence supporting Electric Universe theorists. Until the approach of Ison this solar max has largely been a dud.


8 posted on 10/29/2013 8:22:06 AM PDT by pgkdan
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To: eCSMaster

Yes.


9 posted on 10/29/2013 8:24:19 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: pgkdan
I think the sun might be reacting eltrically to the approach of comet Ison. More evidence supporting Electric Universe theorists. Until the approach of Ison this solar max has largely been a dud.

If that is true, I wonder what will happen at closest approach to the sun.
10 posted on 10/29/2013 8:30:09 AM PDT by ZX12R (Never forget the heroes of Benghazi, who were abandoned to their deaths by Obama)
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To: ZX12R

It is not. Electric universe is hokum. Goreball warming has more credibility.


11 posted on 10/29/2013 8:41:01 AM PDT by Crazieman (Are you naive enough to think VOTING will fix this entrenched system?)
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To: BenLurkin

“Knowing” is half the battle won.


12 posted on 10/29/2013 8:47:35 AM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: Crazieman

The dirty snowball theory of comets is hokum.


13 posted on 10/29/2013 2:09:28 PM PDT by pgkdan
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To: Crazieman
It is not. Electric universe is hokum.

Zat so??? Support your statement or retract it. Junk science from the Scientific Community™ will not be entertained. Let's start with "dark" energy and "dark" matter. Follow some of these to add to your vast research archives:

Dark energy, etc

Picked this one out of the crowd, but it's typical:

Some of the implications of Plasma Cosmology

It's ELECTRIC!!!

14 posted on 10/29/2013 3:06:45 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake (2C7:14 If my people..shall humble themselves and pray..I will hear from heaven..and heal their land.)
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