Sunspots could be seen by the Soho telescope in 2001 (l), but not this year (r)
Posted on 04/21/2009 10:28:59 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
Sunspots could be seen by the Soho telescope in 2001 (l), but not this year (r)
There are no sunspots, very few solar flares - and our nearest star is the quietest it has been for a very long time.
The observations are baffling astronomers, who are due to study new pictures of the Sun, taken from space, at the UK National Astronomy Meeting.
The Sun normally undergoes an 11-year cycle of activity. At its peak, it has a tumultuous boiling atmosphere that spits out flares and planet-sized chunks of super-hot gas. This is followed by a calmer period.
Last year, it was expected that it would have been hotting up after a quiet spell. But instead it hit a 50-year year low in solar wind pressure, a 55-year low in radio emissions, and a 100-year low in sunspot activity...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Exactly.
If they did, they'd know that climate comes and climate goes. Species struggle for survival in the new climate. Some are winners. Some are losers.
The evo-wackos and the eco-wackos stand around wringing their hands over species that might disappear due to the climate changing. Then they preach that that is exactly what their "science" demands.
They don't like it that way. They rebel against the very thought of it.
Save the whales. Save the seals. Save inundated New York City. Save the snail date. Save...save...save...
If they only had some kind of saving God.
There shall be signs in the sun and moon and stars.
Of course, yesterday, the British news was warning of massive solar storms that would destroy all technology.
I only heard part of that report, was it for Saturday and
Sunday or later in the week?
And the redshift is what it is being claimed to be either.
Before the Little Ice Age (1300-1800’s) hit we were in a period called the Medieval Warm Period lasting several hundred years around the turn of the millennium.
During the Medieval Warm Period temperatures were about 0.7-1.0 degrees hotter than during our last century, the 1900’s, with stable summer weather for growing crops, and surprise! people were better fed and more content than in the cooler centuries that followed.
Be careful what you wish for. Cooler weather can bring a lot of misery to Europe and Russia and Alaska and Canada.
With all due respect.... have they figured out some faster-than-light way to know about the imminent arrival of these gamma rays?
Giggle. :-)
Ping!
Revelation 16:8-9:
“The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun,
and the sun was given power to scorch people with fire. They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed
the name of God, who had control over these plagues,
but they refused to repent and glorify him.”
OK, I admit I’m tired, and not feeling very well...
Are you guys mocking me or echoing me?
Very nice shot of M13! You must know your stuff.
Hard to believe how far away some of these things are. 25,000 light years works out to about 25,000 x 5.9 trillion miles (one light year = 5.9 trillion miles). If you could plant yourself within that cluster instantaneously and then look back at Earth, you would actually see the Earth as it appeared during the last ice age. That is, if there was a telescope so powerful. I know, a lot of 'ifs' there.
Here's a website I'm sure you will appreciate:
http://www.photomeeting.de/astromeeting/_index.htm
Sorry, you wouldn't even see good ol’ Sol that long ago!
When the Little Ice Age hit in the early 1300’s, the stable summer weather disappeared and one the most recorded weather phenomenon was spring and summer rain...lots of it. It made the fields too muddy to plant, and it beat down the heads of the grain that did grow into the mud where it couldn’t finish maturing and rotted.
There was a lot of famine very soon after the change occured. It took Europeans a surprisingly long time to adjust to the changed weather, with the Dutch first and the English second diversifying their crops and rotating their crops and doing drainage techiques to recover land made soggy and enclosing land for pasture and raising more animal stock (which also manured the pasture that was later rotated back to crops). They piggy-backed a crop after they harvested what grain grew, generally turnips for feeding their animals during the winter as the traditional fodder crops failed.
Doing these things, the English actually went into a food exporting nation for a while. The French resisted change and hence their revolution, when there was no grain to make the traditional staple of bread.
Source: The Little Ice Age, by Brian Fagan
The sun (and all the other stars) is NOT a nuclear reaction, but instead, an electrical one.
And there is some evidence for that as a theory...
Fred knows more than I....
Will look for some relevant threads....always have trouble digging them up .
My Bad. Sorry.
Hey, I said I was not feeling well!
Let's hope it does it at night.
Why are you apologizing to yourself? Just curious...
The M13 cluster is 25,000 light years away. That means it takes 25,000 years for light to travel from there to here, and vice versa of course. The Sun has been around for close to 5 billion years. That large number I referred to was the *distance* (in miles) to M13.
So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 2011.
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