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A 'mixed up' sunspot just fired off a huge solar flare
Space.com ^
 | May 10, 2022
 | Elizabeth Howell
Posted on 05/10/2022 6:51:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
    AR3006’s polarity is the reverse of what scientists are expecting, which makes the sunspot “interesting and dangerous,” SpaceWeather.com stated. (Sunspot polarity is governed by the current solar cycle.) “If AR3006 flares today, it will be geoeffective. The sunspot is directly facing Earth,” the website added.
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The current solar cycle is a very weak one. Perhaps that’s why this flare exhibits reverse polarity. The last solar cycle was also weak. I believe the last cycle was equatorial and this one is polar.
In predicting that this flare will affect earth I would ask whether earth helped cause this flare.
 
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posted on 
05/10/2022 8:28:49 PM PDT
by 
nagant
 
To: Rebelbase
    “Should I still buy green bananas tomorrow?”
Something I think of all the time...
 
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posted on 
05/10/2022 8:45:36 PM PDT
by 
READINABLUESTATE
(It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.)
 
To: BenLurkin
    A mixed up sunspot? It had a Joe Biden moment?
 
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posted on 
05/10/2022 9:22:09 PM PDT
by 
TigersEye
(Is it time for a general strike yet?)
 
To: BenLurkin
    One solar monitoring satellite is offline right now.
 Ben Davidson from Spaceweathernews.com will have a full report at 6am if not earlier.
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posted on 
05/11/2022 12:56:28 AM PDT
by 
Delta 21
(It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
 
To: READINABLUESTATE; Rebelbase
    You should never buy green bananas.
 
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posted on 
05/11/2022 1:02:57 AM PDT
by 
Delta 21
(It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
 
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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posted on 
05/11/2022 3:46:11 AM PDT
by 
sneakers
(It's not the democraTIC party!  It's the demoCRAT party!   )
 
To: BenLurkin
    Biden should have prevented this.
 
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posted on 
05/11/2022 3:51:24 AM PDT
by 
gitmo
(If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is i)
 
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