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To: justme346
" Solar Weather: McCanney says, "We're seeing the Sun at an excited level never before seen. There was a solar maximum in the year 2000 that would be the expected time for the Sun to reach the maximum of activity on its 11-year solar cycle, and after that it would be expected to diminish in energy over that 11-year span of time. We should be well on the way in the year 2003 to the solar minimum, but instead, the Sun is at an explosive state never before seen in the history of our solar system. My theoretical work shows how, in fact, the Sun is interacting with some large object that we have not seen yet -- NASA probably has seen it, but it is not telling us -- causing the dramatic solar flares that we're seeing."

Sorry, but this is simpy wrong. My wife is, among other things, an amateur astronomer and aurora watcher. There is no question that the sun is less active now than it was three years ago. Therefore this assertation is woven from whole cloth, I.E. there is nothing to it.

9 posted on 05/17/2003 11:12:20 AM PDT by Billy_bob_bob ("He who will not reason is a bigot;He who cannot is a fool;He who dares not is a slave." W. Drummond)
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To: Billy_bob_bob
Sorry, but this is simpy wrong. My wife is, among other things, an amateur astronomer and aurora watcher. There is no question that the sun is less active now than it was three years ago. Therefore this assertation is woven from whole cloth, I.E. there is nothing to it.

Yep, Solar activity has clearly declined over the last year or two, right on schedule; very easily checkable.

Never ceases to amaze me when people purporting to be Christians flat out LIE......pretty common among Creationidiots ("There are NO transitional fossils") and also among apocalyptic kookjobs...though usually they fabricate a claim about earthquakes and volcanic eruptions increasing (in reality, earthquake activity has remained remarkably steady as long as we've been able to record it accurately, and if anything has been BELOW average for several years now, and the number of LARGE volcanic eruptions has CLEARLY been well below average for a very long time...really since Pinatubo).

16 posted on 05/17/2003 11:16:22 AM PDT by John H K
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