Sun Watch

Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:55 am » by **Dirtyrabbit**

cognoscenti wrote:@ badger: The astrophysicist is Mike Reed. He's also the one who had the "Eureka" moment that gave him the solution to the famous ratcheted spiral now known famously as the "Pi" formation. The other scientist who is a renowned DNA biochemist, wishes to retain his anonymity, but who goes by the pseudonym Charles Reed. As I have stated many of their previous interpretations, especially those that pertain to astronomical events have proven to be accurate. This is not to state that those events could not be predicted by astronomers using computer simulations of upcoming events but many were esoteric, such as showing the plotted pathways of solar eclipses over an 18 year period as seen on a polar projection of earth. Many others reference the date of Dec 21, 2012. The most obvious of these was the solar system formation of last summer that depicted the planets around the sun in thin orbital rings situated as they will appear on that date.

this one is real

phoenix crop circle = real

many of these new ones being made we have to pay attention there is a story being told.

Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:21 am » by **Robwokup**

I'm a little bit jealous CORNBREAD, maybe I could change my name to BUTTERMILK BISCUIT, or BISCUITS AND GRAVY, maybe GRITS. Nahhh, that can't beat cornbread. Whatcha think about CHICKEN FRIED STEAK, or SWEET TEA, maybe ROADSIDE BBQ, FROG LEGS perhaps. I guess I've been the South for too long. Thanks, that cast iron skillet full of cornbread makes me laugh, and hungry. Please pass the butter!!!

Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:59 am » by **Theblackdouglas**

I heard our suns peak activity was in 2011 not atm , however i did read recently about the huge hole in our ozone r upper atmosphere which nasa discovered in 2007"
nevermind 2 bloody years l8r.
makes u wonder tho , how lucky we are and how lucky we have been" , lets just hope our luck holds out" qouting sam neil from the show universe"

Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:23 am » by **Drextin**

The solar maximum is predicted for 2013.

What really is telling about all of this is that they have always been able to predict solar flares and spots with about a 80% accuracy. The last two years through them off because they could not figure out why it was so sluggish. They worked it out and are not only back to their original predictions but they should be even more accurate since they have figured the precise mechanism behind the solar mim/max.

As for knowing exactly where the planets will align on any given date...........not news. How they will align on dec 21 2012.......even less news. Every dec 21 or about the planets align in the same way. Only difference for 2012 is a galactic alignment but that will not even be as perfect as the galactic alignment we had in 1998.

having your belief is ok with me.............but when you have no understanding of even the basic science involved in the matter it means you have not taken that belief as serious as you claim since you did not care enough to actually look into it deeper than the myths that you hear.

Most of what you attribute to the mayans is false. Which means that you have based so many of your arguments on what you've heard from sites that know nothing about the real mayan calender and what it says.

So if you cannot take your beliefs serious enough to know more than these boilerplate arguments then I sure as hell cannot take you or your beliefs serious enough to not laugh when I read some of them.

Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:37 am » by **Truthsekr76**

IDK if my eyes are playing tricks on me :sunny:

....but the sun actually looks like its getting pretty active in a hurry.Just in the past 24 hours there is alot of new activity.....Does anyone else notice this?

Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:38 am » by **Harlekin**

So today is the day... :nope:

Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:54 am » by **Hesop**

truthsekr76 wrote:IDK if my eyes are playing tricks on me ....but the sun actually looks like its getting pretty active in a hurry.Just in the past 24 hours there is alot of new activity.....Does anyone else notice this?

I haven't. Looks pretty much the same as it did a couple of days ago.

Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:25 am » by **Reinaul**

This has been posted on Yahoo!:

The Sun Has Spots, Finally

After one of the longest sunspot droughts in modern times, solar activity picked up quickly over the weekend.
A new group of sunspots developed, and while not dramatic by historic standards, the spots were the most significant in many months.
"This is the best sunspot I've seen in two years," observer Michael Buxton of Ocean Beach, Calif., said on Spaceweather.com.
Solar activity goes in a roughly 11-year cycle. Sunspots are the visible signs of that activity, and they are the sites from which massive solar storms lift off. The past two years have marked the lowest low in the cycle since 1913, and for a while scientists were wondering if activity would ever pick back up.
During 2009 so far, the sun has been completely free of spots about 77 percent of the time. NASA researchers last month said quiet jet streams inside the sun were responsible, and that activity would soon return to normal.
The new set of spots, named 1024, is kicking up modest solar flares.
Sunspots are cool regions on the sun where magnetic energy builds up. They serve as a cap on material welling up from below. Often, that material is released in spectacular light shows called solar flares and discharges of charged particles known as coronal mass ejections. The ejections can travel as space storms to Earth within a day or so, and major storms can knock out satellites and trip power grids on the surface.
Prior to the low-activity period, astronomers had been predicting that the next peak in solar activity, expected in 2013, might be one of the most active in many decades. That forecast was recently revised, however, and scientists now expect the next peak to be modest.
All this matters because, as laid out in a report earlier this year by the National Academy of Sciences, a major solar storm nowadays could cause up to $2 trillion in initial damages by crippling communications on Earth and fueling chaos among residents and even governments in a scenario that would require four to 10 years for recovery. Such a storm struck in 1859, knocking out telegraph communications and causing those lines to erupt in flames. The world then was not so dependent on electronic communication systems, however.
Gallery: The Wild and Stormy Sun
Video - How Space Storms Wreak Havoc on Earth
Gallery: Solar Storms
Original Story: The Sun Has Spots, Finally
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here is the link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090706/ ... otsfinally

Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:02 pm » by **Cornbread714**

robwokup wrote:I'm a little bit jealous CORNBREAD, maybe I could change my name to BUTTERMILK BISCUIT, or BISCUITS AND GRAVY, maybe GRITS. Nahhh, that can't beat cornbread. Whatcha think about CHICKEN FRIED STEAK, or SWEET TEA, maybe ROADSIDE BBQ, FROG LEGS perhaps. I guess I've been the South for too long. Thanks, that cast iron skillet full of cornbread makes me laugh, and hungry. Please pass the butter!!!

You could maybe try FATBACK, or POTLIQUOR (do any of you know what that really is?), or CATFISH, or HUSHPUPPY (nah, sounds too much like SLUSHPUP - unless you want to be his bitch), or HOECAKE (better for a girl), or CHITLINS, or GARBALL (I like that one).

All those are Southern food related nicknames. I could probably come up with more but I've been away too long...

Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:06 pm » by **Cornbread714**

Well, so far the activity that started on or around the 4th (not the 7th) hasn't grown to become anything that could be called dramatic. In fact, it seems quieter today than yesterday. :sunny:

Meanwhile, this is the sort of thing we'd be looking for: