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The calm before the solar storm?
NASA warns ´something unexpected
is happening to the Sun´
Daily Mail [UK], by Mark Prigg
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 3/8/2013 10:51:16 PM
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| ´Something unexpected´ is happening on the Sun, Nasa has warned. This year was supposed to be the year of ´solar maximum,´ the peak of the 11-year sunspot cycle. But as this image reveals, solar activity is relatively low. ´Sunspot numbers are well below their values from 2011, and strong solar flares have been infrequent,´ the space agency says.[Snip] It observed just a few small sunspots on an otherwise clean face, which is usually riddled with many spots during peak solar activity. Experts have been baffled by the apparent lack of activity--with many wondering if NASA simply got it wrong.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Topic Thunder, 3/8/2013 11:08:14 PM (No. 9216015)
It´s "The Sunquester"!
Those evil, stinking, rotten Republicans have forced Obama to cut back funding to the sun!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Mr. Hanky, 3/8/2013 11:16:59 PM (No. 9216024)
Those idiots can´t keep their stories straight....this is the hottest year in 4000 years!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
KTWO, 3/8/2013 11:18:46 PM (No. 9216026)
A real Nothingburger article.
The Sun is rather quiet now and that wasn´t expected. So NASA tells us it will change someday.
We learn the Sun may do X next year. Or maybe it won´t. The experts are almost sure.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1, 3/8/2013 11:21:06 PM (No. 9216027)
Solar Cooling?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
oldbuffalo, 3/8/2013 11:25:09 PM (No. 9216033)
#4, now THAT would be a problem.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
plex, 3/8/2013 11:41:38 PM (No. 9216041)
It has happened before. The Maunder Minimum is likely the cause of the "Little Ice Age". If the people who actually study the sun and climate are right, we are headed into a new ice age. Global warming? Not a chance.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
leonardo, 3/9/2013 12:15:32 AM (No. 9216055)
IF a Little Ice Age is indeed approaching (like the wrong predictions in the 1970s) then what are the odds that the planet will need every scrap of fossil fuels and prepared foods that be gotten. Of course those who opposed nat gas, coal, and oil development and use should get to do without them.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mitzi, 3/9/2013 12:23:48 AM (No. 9216059)
NASA should send someone up there to check on things. It shouldn´t be too bad if they go at night when the sun isn´t lit. /s
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stonepony, 3/9/2013 12:36:44 AM (No. 9216061)
# 8
Maybe we could send zero, I think that is one of the 51 states he has not visited
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
annie xango, 3/9/2013 12:53:14 AM (No. 9216070)
Nah #9 that´s one of the 57 states he hasn´t visited...!!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
veritas, 3/9/2013 12:58:30 AM (No. 9216073)
Uhhh... Oh! It´s just ol´ Sol doing outreach to Muslims under NASA´s guidance.
#1: "Sunquester." Ouch. Nice, I like it. No homework for you this weekend.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
iamtinman, 3/9/2013 2:48:36 AM (No. 9216097)
NASA wrong? Tell me it isn´t so! This means they could possibly be wrong about other things like uh,
global warming/cooling/climate change or whatever they decide to call it this year.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 3/9/2013 4:38:34 AM (No. 9216120)
That projection was probably made by the illegal hiring of Chinese nationals and giving them security clearances....
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
franq, 3/9/2013 6:42:37 AM (No. 9216177)
Something wicked this way comes...Rush played a montage yesterday. It was made in 1995 and strung together all the fear mongers of the day. Nothing´s changed.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
suziesuburbanite, 3/9/2013 8:32:16 AM (No. 9216341)
Maybe the lack of sunspots is caused by global warming because no one will accept the other way around.
s/o
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mominNoCA, 3/9/2013 8:43:07 AM (No. 9216357)
Humans did it! Quick, call Joe Kennedy Jr.! He´s an expert on how global warming causes tsunamis, so he can also explain to us sheeple how we´re messing up the sun! Let´s freeze in the dark to save the sun; it´s for the children!
Sheesh.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
surfhut, 3/9/2013 9:22:54 AM (No. 9216460)
The comments on this thread are why I love this place so much. Thanks to Lucianne and all LDotters.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
TOOTALL, 3/9/2013 9:57:19 AM (No. 9216545)
I hope it doesn´t capsize!!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 3/9/2013 10:29:03 AM (No. 9216597)
Don´tcha just love the UK Onion?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Seething Citizen, 3/9/2013 10:47:02 AM (No. 9216627)
What does this have to do with NASA´s new priority, muslim outreach?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
dvc, 3/9/2013 11:25:51 AM (No. 9216678)
And keep in mind that there is **NO connection** between anything happening on the sun and anything happen with the climate on earth.
/end sarcasm
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
harper, 3/9/2013 11:40:42 AM (No. 9216719)
It´s only a matter of time before a CNN Birkenstock Bubblehead blames it on global warming.
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