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

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"I'd like to buy a techno song."

kindve reminds me of last weeks Smallville episode

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"Saying you understand trance by listening to commercial crap is like saying you understand hip hop by listening to 'Who let the dogs out'" - unknown

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

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

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

hehehehe ur sig

This makes for awesome northern lights.

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

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

The sun isn't Polish!

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Originally posted by jp The sun isn't Polish!

send it some weedski

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*cough supernova cough*

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.

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