new solar flare.....

[Tancred]

Heh heh, disaster scares! I remember the 'acid rain' scare thirteen years ago... everyone frantically buying asbestos umbrellas... ah, madness.

I get the feeling this solar flare activity is just the Sun being unusually seasonal and getting into the spirit of fireworks night. With any luck we can hope for sunsnow near christmas, too!

[Ziroc]

Originally posted by Tancred: Heh heh, disaster scares! I remember the 'acid rain' scare thirteen years ago... everyone frantically buying asbestos umbrellas... ah, madness. I get the feeling this solar flare activity is just the Sun being unusually seasonal and getting into the spirit of fireworks night. With any luck we can hope for sunsnow near christmas, too!

This isn't a 'scare'.. Its not normal, just like it's not normal for the huge ice shelves to be melting at a record rate that has never happened in the history of the planet.. I'm not saying I'm all scared or worried crazy about these things, but if we ignore them--like global warming, our kids, kids will have to deal with our ignorance. It's a fact.

[Tancred]

That's true... acid rain's an ecological menace, and has scarred the ecosystems of northernmost Europe, among other places. But even here near London, I remember folks thinking at the time that rain would suddenly melt the flesh off your bones in minutes. Aiee. Similarly, the first thing many people I told about the solar flare activity thought was 'is it going to kill us?!? we're all gonna die!'.

The solar flares are scares alright! The fact that the dangers have a factual basis doesn't make them any LESS scary. Quite the reverse, in fact.

[ 11-06-2003, 12:04 PM: Message edited by: Tancred ]

[Stormymystic]

my main concern is that sooner or later, the sun is going to basicly explode, it may take years for it to happen, but I think that the way the sun is, one day, it will become a black hole, or some other bad thing


P.S.
We are all going to die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...and that is true...and you know it, everyone dies sometime [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

[Zuvio]

Originally posted by Stormymystic: my main concern is that sooner or later, the sun is going to basicly explode, it may take years for it to happen, but I think that the way the sun is, one day, it will become a black hole, or some other bad thing P.S. We are all going to die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...and that is true...and you know it, everyone dies sometime [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

Aaaawwww, Stormy!! I truly believed I was the sole exception!!

[Ziroc]

Originally posted by Tancred: That's true... acid rain's an ecological menace, and has scarred the ecosystems of northernmost Europe, among other places. But even here near London, I remember folks thinking at the time that rain would suddenly melt the flesh off your bones in minutes. Aiee. Similarly, the first thing many people I told about the solar flare activity thought was 'is it going to kill us?!? we're all gonna die!'. The solar flares are scares alright! The fact that the dangers have a factual basis doesn't make them any LESS scary. Quite the reverse, in fact.

Did ja know that people in planes on route from New York to London or viceversa while the solar flare was hitting the earth, all those people got what is equivalent to 8 chest X-Rays.

WOW. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Zuvio]

Originally posted by Ziroc: quote: Originally posted by Tancred: That's true... acid rain's an ecological menace, and has scarred the ecosystems of northernmost Europe, among other places. But even here near London, I remember folks thinking at the time that rain would suddenly melt the flesh off your bones in minutes. Aiee. Similarly, the first thing many people I told about the solar flare activity thought was 'is it going to kill us?!? we're all gonna die!'. The solar flares are scares alright! The fact that the dangers have a factual basis doesn't make them any LESS scary. Quite the reverse, in fact.

Did ja know that people in planes on route from New York to London or viceversa while the solar flare was hitting the earth, all those people got what is equivalent to 8 chest X-Rays.

WOW. [img]smile.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
So instead of having the Fantastic Four, we now have the Fantasic Four Bataljons? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[spydar]

going back to the original topic.....that was really cool! however, how can we really know what they sound like since there is no sound in space (being a vacuumn and all) Star Wars has lied to me!!!!!