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Space weather expert has ominous forecast
LA Times ^
| May 4, 2012, 7:26 p.m.
| Amina Khan
Posted on 05/05/2012 7:09:10 PM PDT by null and void
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To: null and void
Massive solar storms have happened before and another one is likely to occur soon,zzzz...
To: Errant
Shouldn’t that be Bill Clinton? Though, I guess he’d be pulling her down by her lip.
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posted on
05/05/2012 8:55:35 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: aruanan
It had to hurt when he let go!
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posted on
05/05/2012 8:57:24 PM PDT
by
Errant
To: null and void
We need to send a sacrifice to the sun gods, send Barry on a one way trip to the sun.
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posted on
05/05/2012 9:08:48 PM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
(Liberals need not reply.)
To: null and void
If we get what we got about
10,000 years ago (this is a PDF of the paper), we'll be pretty much truly and completely effed.
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posted on
05/05/2012 9:09:14 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: lightman
Travelling at the speed of light it takes 8 minutes for solar events to reach the earth. Done already.
Coronal mass ejections don't travel at the speed of light, being mass and all.
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posted on
05/05/2012 9:12:57 PM PDT
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aruanan
To: Errant
"A large sunspot group is rotating into view over the sun's northeastern limb."
I wish I had a "limb" like that! ;-)
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posted on
05/05/2012 9:13:32 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
To: Revolting cat!
They laughed at the boy who cried wolf, too!
Especially after all the trouble he caused and the only thing they found were his gnawed on sandals and few scraps of tunic yarked up by a dyspeptic wolf.
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posted on
05/05/2012 9:16:01 PM PDT
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aruanan
To: null and void
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posted on
05/05/2012 9:16:31 PM PDT
by
Hunton Peck
(See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
To: Huskrrrr
“Im selling Sun Block Cream with a special solar flare-up repellent. Just $19.95. But wait, if you act right now...”
Is there any chance I could get a second one for just the S&H charges (only 18.95)?
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posted on
05/05/2012 9:19:07 PM PDT
by
Magic Fingers
(Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
To: null and void
We're doomed!That may be true, but it's not like "we're all going to die!"
To: null and void
Must be all that global warming.
To: gorush
There was a solar storm back in the mid to late 1800s that fused telegraph devices...a similar storm today would do far more damage and its only a matter of time.
The
Carrington Super Flare. It enabled telegraph operators to send messages on telegraph wires with the batteries disconnected.
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posted on
05/05/2012 9:22:18 PM PDT
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aruanan
To: Errant
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posted on
05/05/2012 9:25:52 PM PDT
by
Graewoulf
((Dictator Baby-Doc Barack's obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND U.S. Constitution.))
To: Errant
I have always loved that pic! Thanks!
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posted on
05/05/2012 9:38:43 PM PDT
by
wjcsux
("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
To: null and void
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posted on
05/05/2012 9:54:33 PM PDT
by
4buttons
To: Huskrrrr
"But Wait! I'm not dead yet!"
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posted on
05/05/2012 11:47:06 PM PDT
by
BraveMan
To: Revolting cat!
Looked like my butt the other night after a very bad stomach ache. We posted No-Smoking signs around the neighborhood, just to be sure.
On second thought, it also looks like Nancy Pelosi’s face and Helen Thomas’s face.
Guess they all have something in common.
To: null and void
I feel moved once again to report the apprehensions of the learned doctors of the Academy of Lagado, as reported by Lemuel Gulliver:
Their Apprehensions arise from several Changes they dread in the Celestial Bodies. For Instance; that the Earth by the continual Approaches of the Sun towards it, must in Course of Time be absorbed or swallowed up. That the Face of the Sun will by Degrees be encrusted with its own Effluvia, and give no more Light to the World. That, the Earth very narrowly escaped a Brush from the Tail of the last Comet, which would have infallibly reduced it to Ashes; and that the next, which they have calculated for One and Thirty Years hence, will probably destroy us. For, if in its Perihelion it should approach within a certain Degree of the Sun, (as by their Calculations they have Reason to dread) it will conceive a Degree of Heat ten Thousand Times more intense than that of red hot glowing Iron; and in its Absence from the Sun, carry a blazing Tail Ten Hundred Thousand and Fourteen Miles long; through which if the Earth should pass at the Distance of one Hundred Thousand Miles from the Nucleus or main Body of the Comet, it must in its Passage be set on Fire, and reduced to Ashes. That the Sun daily spending its Rays without any Nutriment to supply them, will at last be wholly consumed and annihilated; which must be attended with the Destruction of this Earth, and of all the Planets that receive their Light from it.
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posted on
05/06/2012 12:45:15 AM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: jjotto
There is a hope however. There was a period of years on FR where a Lincoln was gay story appeared several times a year but thankfully those seem to have fallen out of fashion.These seem to have been replaced by "Obama is straight" stories lately.
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posted on
05/06/2012 1:04:33 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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