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Posted by 'mju:zik on Nov-04-2003 06:58:

Why does the sun keep farting?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031103/photos_sc/mdf398419

isnt it supposed to pass gas every decade or whatever??

its been like 10 times in the last week

is it about to shit itself? kinda scared here

Posted by PhloTron on Nov-04-2003 08:05:

maybe we should shoot the worlds supply of pepto at it and see what happens?

Posted by gOOD-tRiP on Nov-04-2003 17:00:

kindve reminds me of last weeks Smallville episode

Posted by zarathustra on Nov-04-2003 22:11:

Damn, imagine what kind of havoc this wreaks on that SOHO satellite.

Posted by jp on Nov-04-2003 22:15:

The sun is just a bit stressed. We should send a probe full of Prozac�

Posted by djshan on Nov-04-2003 22:25:

quote:
Originally posted by jp
The sun is just a bit stressed. We should send a probe full of Prozac�

hehehehe ur sig

Posted by Lumps on Nov-04-2003 22:31:

This makes for awesome northern lights.

Posted by vmc on Nov-04-2003 22:35:

The Sun farts because it ate too much beans and greasy meat

Posted by jp on Nov-04-2003 22:36:

quote:
Originally posted by vmc
The Sun farts because it ate too much beans and greasy meat

The sun isn't Polish!

Posted by vmc on Nov-04-2003 22:38:

quote:
Originally posted by jp
The sun isn't Polish!

send it some weedski

Posted by Trance-Canada on Nov-04-2003 23:11:

*cough supernova cough*

Posted by nrjizer on Nov-04-2003 23:32:

Actually, its not the amount of solar flares thats abnormal. This is the typical amount for the peak of its 11 year cycle. Its the strength of them, we keep getting big ones. While this is certainly a historic event, I wouldn't start preaching the end of the world any time soon. Hell, a hundred years ago you'd never even realize them, save maybe for some extra Auroras further south.

Besides, for all we know this could be the typical pattern, and we're coming out of an abnormally dry solar flare cycle. We can examine the irydium (sp??) content in polar glaciers to get an idea of the suns activity from the last 1000 years (and this hasnt happened yet), but thats still 0.0000002% of the sun's lifetime that we can examine.

Posted by zarathustra on Nov-05-2003 02:10:

quote:
Originally posted by nrjizer
Actually, its not the amount of solar flares thats abnormal. This is the typical amount for the peak of its 11 year cycle. Its the strength of them, we keep getting big ones. While this is certainly a historic event, I wouldn't start preaching the end of the world any time soon. Hell, a hundred years ago you'd never even realize them, save maybe for some extra Auroras further south.

Besides, for all we know this could be the typical pattern, and we're coming out of an abnormally dry solar flare cycle. We can examine the irydium (sp??) content in polar glaciers to get an idea of the suns activity from the last 1000 years (and this hasnt happened yet), but thats still 0.0000002% of the sun's lifetime that we can examine.

iridium

Posted by TeKnoHe@d2025 on Nov-05-2003 02:28:

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Originally posted by nrjizer
Hell, a hundred years ago you'd never even realize them, save maybe for some extra Auroras further south.

We wouldn't have realized because they were not known back then. Had then been known the yes we would have realized. It wasn't until very recently that they have started to cause minor problems for us humans.