Effects of solar flares arriving on Earth
August 6, 2011 By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID , AP Science Writer
(AP) -- The impact of a series of eruptions on the sun began arriving at Earth on Friday and could affect some communications for a day or so.
Operators of electrical grids are working to avoid outages, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says some satellite communications and Global Positioning Systems could face problems.
Three solar flares erupted on the sun starting Tuesday, and the strongest electromagnetic shocks were being felt Friday by the ACE spacecraft, a satellite that measures radiation bursts a few minutes before they strike Earth, said Joseph Kunches, a scientist at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colo.
Tom Bogdan, director of the center, said the sun is going from a quiet period into a busier cycle for solar flares and an increase in the number of such blasts is expected over the next three to five years.
Solar flares send out bursts of electromagnetic energy that strike the Earth's magnetic field. The most common impacts for the average person are the glowing auroras around the north and south poles, and the researchers said those could be visible this weekend.
The magnetic blasts, which Bogdan likened to a tsunami in space, can also affect electronic communications and electrical systems. A 1989 solar flare knocked out the electrical systems in Quebec, Canada, but the current solar storm is not expected to be that powerful. On a scale of 1 to 5, he said, it is probably a 2 or 3.
But more significant solar storms are expected in the next few years, he said.
The most powerful known solar storm occurred in 1859, Bogdan said. There were not as many vulnerable electrical items then, but it did knock out telegraph services, even burning down some telegraph stations, he said.
Other serious solar blasts occurred in 1921 and 1940, he noted, and Kunches recalled one on Halloween in 2003.
More information: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
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Power down your satellites man.
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Looks like solar weathermen are as good as the terrestrial variety.
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The history of events that produced Chimategate, now updated (going back to the April 1967 Bilderberg Conference) and renamed - The Bilderberg Sun, Climategate & Economic Crisis - is available at these links:
http://dl.dropbox...oots.doc
or
http://dl.dropbox...oots.pdf
Comments would be appreciated,
With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel
Former NASA Principal
Investigator for Apollo
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How on earth these rich guys convinced, for example, Fidel Castro and all of the cuban scientists (really good ones too FYI) to keep quiet? Or what about all of the countless (former) USRR scientists, or the east-german ones, or the scientists under the dictatorship of other nations that hate americans and the west, PLEASE TELL ME how did these rich western families convince all of these countries and their scientists to keep quiet about "the truth" behind earth's climate and take part on a absurd conspiracy that would keep the western rich men rich(er) and them poorer?
Aug 07, 2011
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We aren't even close to being one nation or group. The kinds of theories that require major suppression of earth changing knowledge require everyone be on board.
I'm more of a fan of "Never attribute to malice where stupidity will suffice.".
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All of the political power of world leaders, Al Gore, the Bilderberg Group, the US NAS, the UN's IPCC, the UK's RS, editors of Science, Nature, PNAS, MNRS, federal research agencies and armies of scientists cannot change the empirical evidence recorded as extra rest mass in every nucleus with two or more neutrons [1].
The sordid background of this scandal is available as pdf files or Word doc.
"The Bilderberg Sun, Climategate & Economic Crisis"
[url]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/[/url] 10640850/20110722_Climategate_ Roots.pdf
"The Sad Tale of Those Who Tried to Control Nature"
[url]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/[/url] 10640850/20110722_Climategate_ Roots.doc
1. "Neutron Repulsion", The APEIRON Journal, in press, 19 pages (2011):
http://arxiv.org/...2.1499v1
Aug 07, 2011
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Haven't you heard the phrase, The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Global warmer scammers like Al Gore are racking in billions of dollars while harming the US and the western world.
Why would China, Cuba, North Korea not support them?
Aug 07, 2011
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World leaders have shadowboxed before TV cameras since the 1971 agreement to employ the Bilderberg model of a homogeneous Sun in equilibrium [1] and anthropologic climate change as the common enemy to unite nations, end the space race, and avoid global nuclear war.
That decision stymied understanding of the Sun, diverted resources to fusion, an imagined solar heat source, instead of neutron repulsion - the real, and often violently unstable energy source of stars, A-bombs, and fission reactors.
Thus, Eisenhower's 1961 warning on elitist science failed to prevent the current economic and social collapse and almost total public ignorance of the violently unstable nature of Earth's heat source.
Gingerich & De Jager, The Bilderberg solar model, Solar Physics 3, 5-25 (1968).
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That is the real danger we face today.
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Reason is not amongst Oliver's skills.
Oh they all joined the conspiracy because they are under the control of Chairman Mao. No wait, I think he died. Well that's another thing that Oliver is incapable of dealing with.
Your new around here aren't you?
Well a bit anyway. Read some of the other threads Oliver has tainted.
You were a tyrant to your children. You see the worst in others because that is what you have in yourself.
Ethelred
Aug 08, 2011
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Long live the UN's Big Brother and its Red Brigade Defenders!
1. The Bilderberg solar model, Solar Physics 3, 5-25 (1968):
(The Corner Stone of Big Brother Al Gore AGW propaganda)
http://adsabs.har....3....5G
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Go back to 'caring' for little vulnerable girls your much better at that it seems than you are spouting your 'Metal Sun' conspiracies!
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No I don't attack all that question AGW. Just the idiots and ideologues that think the AGW evidence is a lie to get grant money. Try a reasoned debate with evidence instead of lying about everyone else. I have never told a lie about you so why do you lie about me. I can't help it if the truth about you is so bloody awful.
Unlike some the other people that are posting stuff about you I checked and double checked. I checked the court records.
The UN has no big brother. It doesn't have the power or the competence. The Red Brigade was Italian and I never defended them. They, like you, were reprehensible. I will no more support them than I will you. You might as well quite lying about because you just make things worse for yourself.
Ethelred
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Well, for starters it is in the 100th smallest nation on the planet (there are only 99 nations -out of 234- with less area). It has 0.4%, that's ~1/237th, the surface area of the U.S. Which is to say it's easy to invest in more expensive infrastructure when you don't have to invest in as much of it. I'm sorry but was this really not obvious to you??
Aug 09, 2011
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We have to see beyond old teaching to understand Oliver's genial and shocked discovery.
http://www.youtub...vk2wDYwc
jsdarkdestruction, Ethelred their falsifier "friends" chameleons and rats have become wild to understand that.
Only neutron star systems and powerful neutron repulsion can explain effects of the solar flares and protuberances!
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The decision was apparently made during Kissingers secret visit to China in 1971 to use Anthropologic Global Climate Change as the common enemy to:
a.) Unite Nations;
b.) End the Cold War, the Space Race; and
c.) The threat of Mutual Nuclear Annihilation.
To negate the Suns obvious control over Earths climate, the model [1] of a homogeneous Sun in hydrostatic equilibrium became official government dogma after 1971.
Precise experimental data from studies of meteorites, the 1969 Apollo Mission to the Moon, the 1995 Galileo probe of Jupiter, and even nuclear rest mass data have been ignored, manipulated or hidden.
1. The Bilderberg Model of the Photosphere and Low Chromosphere
http://adsabs.har...oPh.3.5G
Hang in there!
Oliver K. Manuel
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I don't work for NASA and you continuing lies about that won't change it. I work retail.
Ethelred
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Ethelred
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If the truth hurts that is your problem.
I have dealt with dubious scientific claims many times. Mostly you just ignore what I say. It took DOZENS of post just to get acknowledge that I mentioned the iron stack tests and even then you refused to accept the FACT that NO ONE has EVER seen an non-isolated neutron decay. EVER. Tons of iron, many tons of heavy water NEVER.
Not even your students support you.
Yet you spam and spam and spam. You are Crank Oliver. That is pure Crank behavior.
If you don't like being called a Crank than STOP.
And you personal history does count. You are NOT a reliable source for anything. No one that lived a lie as a predator all their life can be trusted. Since you are a known liar and your science is execrable I see no reason I shouldn't point that out.
Ethelred
Aug 09, 2011
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Yes, it's all a global conspiracy. Yes, we are all sheeple blindly following the blind and 100 yrs from now oliver k manuel will be household name the same as newton and einsteb are today.
LMAO, sorry, i couldnt help myself.
Aug 09, 2011
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That is how propaganda worked. Intense personal attacks show that government scientists are getting worried, now that the economy is about to collapse.
Hopefully I will be better able to communicate the entangled history of Climategate with the space program, oscillating solar neutrinos, and the model of a homogeneous, H-filled Sun [1] in the fifth video summary of research on "Scientific Genesis"
a. Science vs. Propaganda
b. Origin of the Solar System
c. The Iron Sun
d. Neutron Repulsion
e. Global Warming
The 5th video should be completed on Thursday.
1. "The Bilderberg Sun, Climategate & Economic Crisis"
http://dl.dropbox...oots.pdf
With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel
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Nonsense. People rake you over the coals because you did great evil and that evil does not make bad science into perfection.
Which you have gone to great length to turn into utter rubbish with that ridiculous claim that Mao was involved.
I suppose you think that millions of dollars, yen and many other forms of money were spent solely to make false accusations against you. Rubbish again. NO ONE GIVES A DAMN about your idiot ideas except that you keep spamming the site. Physicists IGNORE you, most don't even know your pigheaded bad science even exists. You have NO evidence to support you and they have lots.>>
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Involved a supernova and anyone competent knows that. But no competent think OUR Sun was that supernova.
Which is based on idea of the Sun coming from a Supernova since there is simply no evidence for the ludicrous claim.
Which again has no evidence to support. Even the students that did the work for that table that supports the Pauli Exclusion Principle do not support you. Though you did once lie about that when you pretended their work in class constituted support. That was silly even by your standards.>>
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Does Alex know about your conviction?
Multiply posted to deal with Oliver's crossposted spam.
Ethelred
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Dumbass I don't work for them. I work retail.
It is axiomatic that Me-Too's need their Big Dog.
http://redwing.hu...etoo.htm
Unfortunately for Kio the Me-Too Oliver is NOT a Big Dog. He is:
http://redwing.hu...anus.htm
Sorry but none really fit me. I am too willing to go to battle to be a Kung Fu Master but otherwise it fits.
http://redwing.hu...ster.htm
To Oliver saying so. There is no other reason for you saying that. Oliver has no evidence to support his claim and it is exceedingly ludicrous.
The guy that wrote the letter about a pulsar being in the Sun has not said one word since.>>
Aug 10, 2011
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Even Oliver doesn't make that claim. He thinks it is from churning by the larger planets. Which I tend to agree with EXCEPT that it is not a bleeding pulsar that is being churned. Just the Sun which is almost entirely helium and hydrogen.
Which is completely stupid. Oliver thinks that Neutron Decay is a Perpetual Motion machine and that the Universe is eternal. Of course Oliver won't even try tell us how we could have a black sky if that were true.
How about you answer that?
I suppose he will just froth at the mouth some more instead of dealing with a relevant question.
Ethelred
Aug 10, 2011
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Truth is Victorious!
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"How about you answer that?
I suppose he will just froth at the mouth some more instead of dealing with a relevant question."
The answer is to pretend nothing was asked and to froth at the mouth.
I am not fat, please quite mistaking me for Oliver.
I am not rich. The false models are Oliver's.
You mean the places Oliver was published are false? He was published you know. Not often of course.
That is insane. There is nothing to fear from Oliver UNLESS you have the misfortune to related and underage.
The nothing part is right. I have nearly no money. Oliver gets a pension. From the sort of people you are ranting about.>
Aug 10, 2011
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That children can be abused with just a slap on the wrist?
No. Just plain no. Sir Frederick Hoyle didn't get a Nobel and he deserved one. Oliver deserves jail time. Please notice that despite all of Oliver's rants about being attacked he has never claimed wasn't guilty.
No I have questions. Questions Oliver can't answer.
Instead of answering my question you frothed at the mouth. So I will ask TWO questions this time. Surely you can answer them as you must know everything there is to know about what Oliver's ideas require.
Why is the sky black when Oliver claims the Universe is eternal and does not expand. This is impossible according to any rational physics yet known. What is the reason for the black sky?
What do you use to clean the spittle off your monitor?
Ethelred
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Probably wasn't by foresight. Everything is easier to put underground when you live in the mountains.