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Well, some would say that 100lbs is 100lbs, but I'd rather be hit by the 100lb hailstone than the 100lb BS Just my personal preference
Better yet, just give me the mile wide asteroid so I never know what hit me.
Oh same here , I sure would want to be remembered as dying in a much more epic way with the 100 lb hailstone. 100lbs of BS just doesn't have much of a way to spin it to anything remotely cool.
She's waking up. Pull out your binoculars tonight to see for yourself......read on. And no, before some of you start, the worlds not "ending', things are changing.
Snippet: Earth is bracing for a cosmic tsunami Tuesday night as tons of plasma from a massive solar flare head directly toward the planet.
Views of aurorae are usually associated with Canada and Alaska, but even skywatchers in the northern U.S. mainland are being told they can look toward the north Tuesday and Wednesday evenings for rippling"curtains" of green and red light.
This type of solar event has both government officials and satellite manufacturers worrying. NASA scientists warned recently that high-energy electric pulses from the sun could cripple our electrical grid for years, causing billions in damages. In fact, the House is so concerned that the Energy and Commerce committee voted unanimously to approve a bill allocating $100 million to protect the energy grid from this rare but potentially devastating occurrence.
The sun's activity usually ebbs and flows on a fairly predictable cycle. Typically, a cycle lasts about 11 years, taking roughly 5.5 years to move from a solar minimum, a period of time when there are few sunspots, to peak at the solar maximum, during which sunspot activity is amplified.
The last solar maximum occurred in 2001. The latest minimum was particularly weak and long- lasting. The most recent solar eruption is one of the first signs that the sun is waking up -- and heading toward another maximum.
She's waking up. Pull out your binoculars tonight to see for yourself......read on. And no, before some of you start, the worlds not "ending', things are changing.
Snippet: Earth is bracing for a cosmic tsunami Tuesday night as tons of plasma from a massive solar flare head directly toward the planet.
Views of aurorae are usually associated with Canada and Alaska, but even skywatchers in the northern U.S. mainland are being told they can look toward the north Tuesday and Wednesday evenings for rippling"curtains" of green and red light.
This type of solar event has both government officials and satellite manufacturers worrying. NASA scientists warned recently that high-energy electric pulses from the sun could cripple our electrical grid for years, causing billions in damages. In fact, the House is so concerned that the Energy and Commerce committee voted unanimously to approve a bill allocating $100 million to protect the energy grid from this rare but potentially devastating occurrence.
The sun's activity usually ebbs and flows on a fairly predictable cycle. Typically, a cycle lasts about 11 years, taking roughly 5.5 years to move from a solar minimum, a period of time when there are few sunspots, to peak at the solar maximum, during which sunspot activity is amplified.
The last solar maximum occurred in 2001. The latest minimum was particularly weak and long- lasting. The most recent solar eruption is one of the first signs that the sun is waking up -- and heading toward another maximum.
Evidently this part escaped you.
"The sun's activity usually ebbs and flows on a fairly predictable cycle. Typically, a cycle lasts about 11 years, taking roughly 5.5 years to move from a solar minimum, a period of time when there are few sunspots, to peak at the solar maximum, during which sunspot activity is amplified.
The last solar maximum occurred in 2001. The latest minimum was particularly weak and long- lasting. The most recent solar eruption is one of the first signs that the sun is waking up -- and heading toward another maximum."
Translation for those hoping and wishing that this means THE END.Nothing is changing.This is a normal,re-occurring event that happens about once a decade.And we are pretty close on schedule.
Not that it cannot cause major damage.It certainly can.In fact,I think the 2 main prospects for ending technological civilizations on earth will either be a solar flare that completely breaks down societies around the world or a virus outbreak that can't be stopped.But that is another thread.
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She's waking up. Pull out your binoculars tonight to see for yourself......read on. And no, before some of you start, the worlds not "ending', things are changing.
Snippet: Earth is bracing for a cosmic tsunami Tuesday night as tons of plasma from a massive solar flare head directly toward the planet.
Views of aurorae are usually associated with Canada and Alaska, but even skywatchers in the northern U.S. mainland are being told they can look toward the north Tuesday and Wednesday evenings for rippling"curtains" of green and red light.
This type of solar event has both government officials and satellite manufacturers worrying. NASA scientists warned recently that high-energy electric pulses from the sun could cripple our electrical grid for years, causing billions in damages. In fact, the House is so concerned that the Energy and Commerce committee voted unanimously to approve a bill allocating $100 million to protect the energy grid from this rare but potentially devastating occurrence.
The sun's activity usually ebbs and flows on a fairly predictable cycle. Typically, a cycle lasts about 11 years, taking roughly 5.5 years to move from a solar minimum, a period of time when there are few sunspots, to peak at the solar maximum, during which sunspot activity is amplified.
The last solar maximum occurred in 2001. The latest minimum was particularly weak and long- lasting. The most recent solar eruption is one of the first signs that the sun is waking up -- and heading toward another maximum.
Houston...we have a problem...the grip of reality, has lost its hold.
I left you a message on the other post, you posted "this same message" on, ah, ah, ahhh...no repeat posting, remember? But do thank you for sharing.....
I left you a message on the other post, you posted "this same message" on, ah, ah, ahhh...no repeat posting, remember? But do thank you for sharing.....
Left you one back there also...take it to heart Betsy...it could save your life.
I left you a message on the other post, you posted "this same message" on, ah, ah, ahhh...no repeat posting, remember? But do thank you for sharing.....
Then kindly limit your "we're all going to die" hysteria to one thread.
And when tomorrow or next week comes and all is it should be, what is going to be your next chicken little routine?
Those of you in the northern states...Get out tonight, and look north.... Four coronal mass ejections, or solar flares, were launched by the sun over the weekend, including as many as two headed toward the Earth.
Those of you in the northern states...Get out tonight, and look north.... Four coronal mass ejections, or solar flares, were launched by the sun over the weekend, including as many as two headed toward the Earth.
Then kindly limit your "we're all going to die" hysteria to one thread.
And when tomorrow or next week comes and all is it should be, what is going to be your next chicken little routine?
"And no, before some of you start, the worlds not "ending', things are changing".
Just be silent and pay attention for one minute...can you do that? Sometimes the "answers" are found in silence......
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Just my personal preference 
ah, ah, ahhh...no repeat posting, remember? But do thank you for sharing.....
