[quote]"I've been a solar physicist for 30 years, and I've never seen anything quite like this," says Richard Harrison, head of space physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.
He shows me recent footage captured by spacecraft that have their sights trained on our star. The Sun is revealed in exquisite detail, but its face is strangely featureless.
"If you want to go back to see when the Sun was this inactive... you've got to go back about 100 years," he says.
This solar lull is baffling scientists, because right now the Sun should be awash with activity.[/quote]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25743806[/url]
Time to revise what we expect out of solar cycles.
one minute we are told it's waking up
then going to sleep
then hyperactive
now it's asleep
make your damn mind up scientists!
[I][B]It's happening.[/B][/I]
I wonder how winters are going to be like considering we also have the whole global warming issue going on
[QUOTE=mini me;43619170]one minute we are told it's waking up
then going to sleep
then hyperactive
now it's asleep
make your damn mind up scientists![/QUOTE]
No time, we need to go all Sunshine on this bitch and get some nukes going.
calm down, the sun probably just has a hangover from his million year binge with the moon.
Suns a lazy bastard.
[QUOTE=markg06;43619219]No time, we need to go all Sunshine on this bitch and get some nukes going.[/QUOTE]
[b][i]Nuke the sun[/i][/b]
[QUOTE=Sir M;43619276][b][i]Nuke the sun[/i][/b][/QUOTE]
i'd imagine it to be a bit like pissing in a sea of piss.
Wouldn't that suck if when it wakes up again it shoots out a giant EMP blast that the earth pretty much can't miss lmao
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines]No.[/url]
[editline]21st January 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=onebit;43619308]Maybe there's no pattern?[/QUOTE]
Do an image search on "sunspot cycle" and judge for yourself
[QUOTE=mini me;43619170]one minute we are told it's waking up
then going to sleep
then hyperactive
now it's asleep
make your damn mind up scientists![/QUOTE]
It's an autistic sun
[QUOTE=onebit;43619441]Right, that's a pattern, but there might still be a chaotic factor in effect.[/QUOTE]
It's a gigantic ball of burning/exploding gas
I think it's right to say there's a chaotic factor to The Sun
[QUOTE=mini me;43619170]one minute we are told it's waking up
then going to sleep
then hyperactive
now it's asleep
make your damn mind up scientists![/QUOTE]
Or... mabye its the sun that needs to make its mind up?
[QUOTE=Arc Nova;43619499]It's a gigantic ball of burning/exploding gas
I think it's right to say there's a chaotic factor to The Sun[/QUOTE]
Actually its nuclear fusion, not burning.
God saw the problem of global warming, but he didn't wanted to break the free will of the people, so instead he just cooled down the sun a little.
Only possible explanation.
The sun got skin cancer from its own radiation, so it got its spots removed.
Winter is coming?
[QUOTE=Arc Nova;43619499]It's a gigantic ball of burning/exploding gas
I think it's right to say there's a chaotic factor to The Sun[/QUOTE]
Funny thing is, because it's such a gigantic chaotic system, you can build a model and around the probability of events occurring. This news just means that model isn't refined enough. It's like predicting the weather.
This is certainly strange considering the global warming and all.
[QUOTE=spectator1;43620089]This is certainly strange considering the global warming and all.[/QUOTE]
Not really; one event does not really require the other. Global warming (or climate change, however you want to put it) is something that takes place over a very, very long period of time (as in, hundreds to thousands of years, even with our involvement), and it's more to do with the concentration of heat-trapping gasses in our atmosphere than it is the Sun's current output. Solar activity is something that varies day to day, year to year, and decade to decade, and while there is evidence it affects the immediate temperature on our planet, that has been contested and it's certainly not the only factor.
Anyone feel free to correct me if I got something wrong; I admit I'm not particularly well versed in solar activity vs. temperature.
[i]The calm before the storm...[/i]
Eat that climate deniers I told you C02 was gonna screw everything
[QUOTE=spectator1;43620089]This is certainly strange considering the global warming and all.[/QUOTE]
look at venus
I wonder what it being "awake" would look like.
[QUOTE=Golgo 13;43619440]It's an autistic sun[/QUOTE]
Lmoa xdxdd ecks dee epic zinger bro!!
[QUOTE=spectator1;43620089]This is certainly strange considering the global warming and all.[/QUOTE]
How do you have Albert Einstein as your avatar but such a poor grasp on science.
[QUOTE=TorashVD;43619584]God saw the problem of global warming, but he didn't wanted to break the free will of the people, so instead he just cooled down the sun a little.
Only possible explanation.[/QUOTE]
The universe nerfed sun powers a bit.
Sun confirmed for bi-polar disorder.
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;43620174]Not really; one event does not really require the other. Global warming (or climate change, however you want to put it) is something that takes place over a very, very long period of time (as in, hundreds to thousands of years, even with our involvement), and it's more to do with the concentration of heat-trapping gasses in our atmosphere than it is the Sun's current output. Solar activity is something that varies day to day, year to year, and decade to decade, and while there is evidence it affects the immediate temperature on our planet, that has been contested and it's certainly not the only factor.
Anyone feel free to correct me if I got something wrong; I admit I'm not particularly well versed in solar activity vs. temperature.[/QUOTE]
There are different factors to global warming. The Earth naturally goes through cycles that effects whether it is heading toward an ice age or not, such as distance from the Sun, tilt (on the long term, not just seasons), etc. and these cycle over tens thousands of years, and are called Milankovitch cycles. The synchronization of some of the factors making up the Milankovitch Cycles is what on a long time scale is responsible for the different macro changes in Earth's Climate, such as past Ice Ages.
The thing about our current warming cycle is that it is not related to these cycles, but as you said, related to greenhouse gases trapping solar radiation in Earth's Atmosphere.
title reminded me of "raindrops keep falling on my head"
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