Sunspot 1302: It's big. It's bad. And it's coming our way
Sunspot 1302 has already produced two X-flares (X1.4 on Sept. 22nd and X1.9 on Sept. 24th). Each of the dark cores in this image from SDO is larger than Earth, and the entire active region stretches more than 100,000 km from end to end. The sunspot's magnetic field is currently crackling with sub-X-class flares that could grow into larger eruptions as the sunspot continues to turn toward Earth. Credit: NASA/SDO/HMI
(PhysOrg.com) -- Behemoth sunspot 1302 unleashed another strong flare on Saturday morning--an X1.9-category blast at 5:40 am EDT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash.
The movie (below) also shows a shadowy shock wave racing away from the blast site. This is a sign that the blast produced a coronal mass ejection (CME) that could deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field on Sept. 26.
Since the X1.9-flare, active region (AR) 1302 has unleashed M8.6 and M7.4 flares on Sept. 24 and an M8.8 flare early on Sept. 25. None of the blasts have been squarely Earth-directed, but this could change as the sunspot turns toward our planet in the days ahead. AR1302 is growing and shows no immediate signs of quieting down.
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You can literally see the Repulsive Neutrons in this clip, you have to squint like you do watching Japanese videos with the grainy areas.
For sometime I though Japanese women were the victims of IRRuminati Repulsive Neutron experiments that made areas of their bodies look like that in reality, but my studies of "Extreamly Dense Ætherwobbly Theory" has cleared that up, just like the ointment my shaman gave me clear up my rash, why he had to rub it on?
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Director of 3 Australian mining companies:
Ivanhoe, CBH Resources and Kefi Minerals.
Appointed chairperson of the board for TNT Mines Limited in 2010.
He is also listed as a director of Australia-based coal gas company Ormil Energy.[9]
In 2008 and 2009, according to a columnist in The Age, Plimer earned over A$400,000 from these interests, and he has mining shares and options worth hundreds of thousands of Australian dollars
has stated that El Niño is caused by earthquakes
Has claimed Pacific island nations are seeing changes in relative sea level not because of global warming but quite commonly due to other factors, such as "vibration consolidating the coral island sands", extraction of water, and extraction of sand for road and air strip making.
http://en.wikiped...n_Plimer
His opinions show no sigh of conflict of interest, and he isn't an Illuminati stooge
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Some of his research was in sunspots, though, RIP.
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Don't start eating people to survive, seriously, human meat tastes like shit and is probably more toxic than eating garbage. =P
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Are you suggesting, for example, Al Gore, a career populist politician, has no vested interests and has assessments that carry more weight?
You can bet they all line up for a turn in the money shower but the scientist should have more clout than a politician in this particular matter.
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Ian Pilmer, not Al Gore, had the ability to interpret experimental data, like these [1-10]:
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It is easy to blame politicians for deceiving the public, an art that many politicians have mastered, but . . . .
The sad demise of space and solar science in the West rests squarely on the shoulders of leaders of the US's National Academy of Sciences and the UK's Philosophical Society.
These leaders of science and their armies of talented scientists have the training needed to understand that experimental observations [1-10] above, and neutron repulsion in nuclear rest mass data [11], falsify the claim that Earth's heat source is the stable H-fusion reactor that the Bilderberg group concluded in April of 1967 [12].
11. "Neutron Repulsion", The APEIRON Journal, in press (2011)
http://arxiv.org/...2.1499v1
12. "The Bilderberg Sun", Solar Physics 3, 5-25 (1968)
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