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Scientists Issue Unprecedented Forecast of Next Sunspot Cycle
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| March 6, 2006
Posted on 03/06/2006 3:34:07 PM PST by Esther Ruth
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To: Esther Ruth
The team has verified the information by using the relatively new technique of helioseismology, based in part on observations from NASA instruments. This technique tracks sound waves reverberating inside the Sun to reveal details about the interior, much as a doctor might use ultrasound to see inside a patient. Question I have is, how many sunspot cycles have been observed with this new fangled stuff. If they haven't seen even one yet, I'd wait and see.
To: Database
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posted on
03/06/2006 11:41:09 PM PST
by
geopyg
(Ever Vigilant, Never Fearful)
To: geopyg
Time to buy more gold! Had an old-timer friend that swore on the Solar-Gold cycle!?
I see someone is even selling software to do it:
"The program then analyzes the parameters you set up, and identifies the geocosmic correlates that most stand out, given those parameters. One can then go to the Galactic Trader functions to see when those signatures come up again."
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posted on
03/06/2006 11:47:38 PM PST
by
geopyg
(Ever Vigilant, Never Fearful)
To: united1000
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posted on
03/07/2006 3:23:44 AM PST
by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
To: The Red Zone
Oh yikes, idunno, there are a lot of great links that you could spend millions of hours on at that web site linked at top of this article. Look at this one that is from the bottom of article. Lots there.
http://www.hao.ucar.edu/
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posted on
03/07/2006 4:42:36 AM PST
by
Esther Ruth
(I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee - Genesis 12:3)
To: Esther Ruth
The cancer of Darwinism has metastasized to all of Science. Two days ago I was castigated for saying -- in mockery of the fantasical mindset Darwinism requires -- that the grains of sand along a beach will surely
evolve into great castles. Today, here's a report that says that firey grains of plasma are also part and parcel of teh Holy Church of Darwinism, and adhere to the Dogma of Evolution. Vis:
The NCAR computer model, known as the Predictive Flux-transport Dynamo Model, draws on research indicating that the evolution of sunspots is caused by a current of plasma, or electrified gas, that circulates between the Sun's equator and its poles over a period of 17 to 22 years.
Were it not except to bow like true believers before the the altar of Darwinism, the term "evolution" might have been "development". All praise Holy Darwin and his Works! JMHO.
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posted on
03/07/2006 5:18:53 AM PST
by
bvw
To: Database
Did he play... Kenneth ?
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posted on
03/07/2006 5:31:54 AM PST
by
johnny7
(“Iuventus stultorum magister”)
To: united1000
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posted on
03/07/2006 10:23:49 AM PST
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xcamel
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To: xcamel
Awesome photos, way COOL! Great shots! I had to drive out of town a bit to get away from the lights, and still didn't get to decent dark sky; but the aurora was so brilliant I saw it just fine anyway. It had been quite a few years between views of seeing the aurora in this area like that. Although when I was a kid I was in Ohio, the lat was about the same. I bet you get to see them in your blue state more often though. lol
To: xcamel
[Very nice pictures of the
Aurora deleted.]
As Bruce Cockburn put it:
Sunday night and it's half-past nine(x3)
I'm leaving one more town behind
The mirrors are showing the day's last glow(x3)
As we're spit out into the jigsaw flow
Ahead where there should be the thickness of night (x3)
Stars are pinned on a shimmering curtain of light
The sky full of rippling cliffs and chasms(x3)
That shine like signs on the road to heaven
I've been cut by the beauty of jagged mountains(x3)
and cut by the Love that flows like a fountain--from God
so I carry these scars so precious and rare(x3)
and tonight I feel like I'm made of air
Cheers!
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posted on
03/07/2006 5:43:23 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
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To: united1000
I was very proud that the BBC used a few of them on "The Sky Tonight" series. (my 15 milliseconds of fame)
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03/07/2006 5:45:45 PM PST
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xcamel
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To: Esther Ruth; The Red Zone
The proof of the pudding is in the predictions. For that one has to wait.
The sunspot cycle does seem to have more regularity than earth weather, but HOW much more is the crucial question. Would seem to me that an almost unimaginably hot ball of gases and plasma like the sun would be more like weather, in terms of chaos, than it is like billiards.
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