Posted on 06/19/2009 10:12:13 PM PDT by neverdem
are they trying to say the sun affects the weather? this blasphemy cannot stand!
It also effects the wind patterns, so there goes all of those clean energy wind farms.
Must be global warming crap, huh?
Thanks for the pic!
What IS the sun? I mean, WHY is it a ball of gas? How did that come about? Is there a solid center? How can a ball of gas retain a ball shape? How did the sun start?
Does anyone in the scientific community know the answers to these questions?
I thought it was made of green cheese, but I’m becoming less certain all the time.
This is at least the third high profile prediction in the last year that Cycle 24 is imminent.
Whoops, never mind.
The little black dot in the NW quadrant is a blown pixel, not a sunspot.
The Sun is going out. Maybe it will explode. I say, “Let’s panic!” ;-)
The sun and stars began as clumps of hydrogen gas (which in turn was generated in the creation event) whose own gravity squeezed them together tightly enough to start nuclear fusion processes that turn the hydrogen into helium and release lots of energy. If this keeps up long enough the hydrogen is depleted and the helium starts getting squeezed together into heavier elements — it will be an extremely long time before the sun starts doing this, if it ever does. A symmetric globe is what you get when there is no other significant force affecting the star. Stars that spin rapidly enough become squatty ellipse shapes.
Hey, thank you. That’s very interesting material.
You’re right, we should have a Senate resolution denouncing the Sun.
Thanks for the feedback. What does EIT image mean?
The SOHO EIT is able to image the solar transition region and inner corona in four, selected bandpasses in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV):
Fe IX/X, 171 Å
Fe XII, 195 Å
Fe XV, 284 Å
He II, 304 Å
Using either full-disk or subfield images, the EIT can image active regions, filaments and prominences, coronal holes, coronal "bright points," polar plumes, and a variety of other solar features. The instrument was designed to be used in conjunction with other SOHO instruments, particularly the LASCO visible-light coronagraphs and the SUMER and CDS imaging spectrographs, as well as with ground-based instruments.
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Basically you are looking at narrow bands of very energetic electromagnetic radiation (light) emitted from the sun. Much more energetic then what our eyes can see. Regular UV burns the skin. They are looking at even more energetic UV light.
may be
cannot at this point definitively say
inferred from this
might be
There is a lot more to learn
Translation:
We don’t have a freakin’ clue but we need to come up with something so the government keeps sending us bushels of money.
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