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Monster Sunspot Threatens to Unleash Powerful Solar Flares
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| 5/8/12
| Mike Wall
Posted on 05/08/2012 10:44:06 AM PDT by Kartographer
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To: andy58-in-nh
1476 is a big group, but there are not many others, across the face of the sun. Seems like this cycle is still pretty thin for sunspots overall.
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posted on
05/08/2012 12:38:28 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: lonevoice
Get ready for a lot of Earth songs.
To: GraceG
Someone's been peeking in my garage window again?
:-) 
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posted on
05/08/2012 1:16:29 PM PDT
by
lonevoice
(Klepto Baracka Marxo, impeach we much.)
To: Kartographer
Everyone is urged to look up the Carrington Event of 1859. Just for a laugh.
Back then, all we had were telegraphs. There is no telling what would happen from such a powerful solar storm today, with all our smart phones, onboard vehicle computers, satellites, the Internet and a rickety power grid.
Intellectual curiosity ... no prepper stuff today. Just sayin’ ...
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posted on
05/08/2012 1:32:14 PM PDT
by
DNME
(A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright. — Robert Heinlein)
To: Kartographer
Every household should have stored 1 gallon water per person per day for a minimum of two weeks.
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posted on
05/10/2012 7:41:33 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: andy58-in-nh
Dumb question...is this the end of the current “Maunder Minimum”?
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05/10/2012 7:43:32 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Kartographer
To: Drill Thrawl
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posted on
05/10/2012 7:48:02 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: BenLurkin
From what I’ve seen, the present sunspot cycle has been particularly short-lived and weak, and may presage an extended period of solar quiescence (i.e. - a “minimum” period, which may have already begun).
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05/10/2012 7:59:12 AM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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