September 15, 2010
Sunspot activity isn't really getting better. It's more active than last year, but still a minimum.
According to the article, the minimum has been for 26 months, normal ones are about 16 months.
Some scientists are measuring magnetic activity in the sunspots. That's been going down steadily.
Now, they're predicting that by 2016 there wouldn't be enough magnetism to sustain sunspots. That seems almost like reverse-global warmmongers. Looking at a trend and assuming it'll continue that way and then WE ALL DIE!!!!!!, except this time from the coming ice age, not from bursting into flames.
At least they note that there's no proof the trend will continue in a straight line graph, but...
There is precedent for the Sun shutting down, the "Little Ice Age" a few hundred years ago, and, of course, the Earth's climate has gone up and down for as long as there's been an Earth.
I have to admit, I'm rooting for the global warmmongers because I really hate the cold, I just prefer my science to have a basis in fact and not endlessly subject to "correction" when you get caught.
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Posted by: the botnet at September 15, 2010 09:41 PM (pvpGl)
Posted by: Mitchell at September 15, 2010 10:43 PM (TWB//)
In my graduate courses in engineering they let me sneak in a couple stellar structure and evolution classes to satisfy electives. Yeah. Stare at the Sun long enough and you just go blind. Ask Newton.
Posted by: tangonine at September 15, 2010 11:56 PM (C8Pcc)
Posted by: Metalsguru at September 16, 2010 04:50 AM (wTZk3)
Naked ladies more of please.
Posted by: MikeD at September 16, 2010 09:34 AM (FkL60)
Posted by: Goober at September 16, 2010 01:21 PM (QNRoi)
Posted by: doubleplusundead at September 16, 2010 01:28 PM (S1+SK)
You know DPUD, I've been pretty tolerant of you, but no fucking more.
You don't have to shovel heat.
You don't have to scrape it off your windshield.
The A/C in your car comes on in about a minute, it takes 20+ minutes for the heat to work well enough to warm the car up.
And, most importantly, women don't bundle up when it's hot.
Exactly the opposite, as a matter of fact.
Posted by: Veeshir at September 16, 2010 01:58 PM (aFnZ8)
"The observation you mention … I once made upon my self with ye hazzard of my eyes. The manner was this. I looked a very little while upon ye sun in a looking-glass wth my right eye & then turned my eyes into a dark corner of my chamber & winked to observe the impression made & the circles of colours wch encompassed it & how they decayed by degrees & at last vanished. This I repeated a second & a third time. At the third time when the phantasm of light & colours about it were almost vanished, intending my phansy upon them to see their last appearance I found to my amazemt that they began to return & by little & little to become as lively & vivid as when I had newly looked upon ye sun. But when I ceased to intende my phansy upon them they vanished again. After this I found that as often as I went into ye dark & intended my mind upon them as when a man looks earnestly to see any thing wch is difficult to be seen, I could make ye phantasm return wthout looking any more upon the sun. And the oftener I made it return, the more easily I could make it return again. And at length by repeating this wthout looking any more upon the sun I made such an impression on my eye that if I looked upon ye clouds or a book or any bright object I saw upon it a round bright spot of light like ye sun. And, which is still stranger, though I looked upon ye sun wth my right eye only & not with my left, yet my phansy began to make ye impression upon my left eye as well as upon my right. For if I shut my right eye & looked upon a book or the clouds with my left eye I could see ye spectrum of the sun almost as plain as with my right eye, if I did but intend my phansy a little while upon it. For at first if I shut my right eye & looked wth my left, ye spectrum of ye Sun did not appear till I intended my phansy upon it; but by repeating this, appeared every time more easily. And now in a few hours time I had brought my eys to such a pass that I could look upon no bright object with either eye but I saw ye sun before me, so that I durst neither write nor read but to recover ye use of my eyes shut myself up in my chamber made dark for three days together & used all means to divert my imagination from ye Sun. For if I thought upon him I presently saw his picture though I was in ye dark. But by keeping in ye dark & imploying my mind about other things I began in three or four days to have some use of my eyes again & by forbearing a few days longer to look upon bright objects recovered them pretty well, thô not so well but that for some months after the spectrum of the sun began to return as often as I began to meditate upon ye phænomenon, even tho I lay in bed at midnight wth my curtains drawn. But now I have been very well for many years, tho I am apt to think that if I durst venture my eyes I could still make ye phantasm return by the power of my fansy."
Fuck off.
Posted by: tangonine at September 16, 2010 10:26 PM (C8Pcc)
Posted by: tangonine at September 16, 2010 10:33 PM (C8Pcc)
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