BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 18 Dec 08 - 07:20 AM

Magnetic-Shield Cracks Found; Big Solar Storms Expected
Victoria Jaggard in San Francisco
National Geographic News
December 17, 2008
An unexpected, thick layer of solar particles inside Earth's magnetic field suggests there are huge breaches in our planet's solar defenses, scientists said.

These breaches indicate that during the next period of high solar activity, due to start in 2012, Earth will experience some of the worst solar storms seen in decades.


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Solar winds—charged particles from the sun—help create auroras, the brightly colored lights that sometimes appear above the Earth's poles.

But the winds also trigger storms that can interfere with satellites' power sources, endanger spacewalkers, and even knock out power grids on Earth.

"The sequence we're expecting … is just right to put particles in and energize them to create the biggest geomagnetic storms, the brightest auroras, the biggest disturbances in Earth's radiation belts," said David Sibeck, a space-weather expert at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

"So if all of this is true, it should be that we're in for a tough time in the next 11 years."

(Into the Breach

Data from NASA's THEMIS satellite showed that a 4,000-mile-thick (6,437-kilometer-thick) layer of solar particles has gathered and is rapidly growing within the outermost part of the magnetosphere, a protective bubble created by Earth's magnetic field.

Normally the magnetosphere blocks most of the solar wind, flowing outward from the sun at about a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) an hour.

"The solar wind is constantly changing, and the Earth's magnetic field is buffeted like a wind sock in gale-force winds, fluttering back and forth in response to the solar wind," Sibeck said this week during a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: Will Fly
Date: 18 Dec 08 - 05:15 AM

Paul - many thanks for pointing out that the sky is falling. I've taken to wearing hats for quite a long time now, and I recommend everyone else to do the same.

When it rains heavily over here, by the way, I wear a ten-galleon hat and just sail through it. (Gets coat).

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 18 Dec 08 - 05:04 AM

Jaysus .38 calibre rain in Florida, we can only manage .22 and 12 gauge here in the UK

eric

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: Paul Burke
Date: 18 Dec 08 - 03:32 AM

Gallia est omnis the visa in parties trees, according to my mate Julius Felix.

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: Gurney
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 11:35 PM

I didn't know Paul Burke is a Gaullish name? I thought they all ended in ..ix.

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: Cats
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 02:28 PM

Chicken Licken - I have read your story and told it many, many times. It was part of my childhood. Glad you got to see the King.

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 01:47 PM

What hours do magnetic Poles work for their shift?

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 01:06 PM

Maybe the magnetic pole shift is to blame.

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 12:55 PM

Spike Milligan obviously never lived in FLorida, where the raindrops are the size of .38 bullets.


A

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 12:42 PM

Many thanks. 'T warn't nuffin. If I could get paid for pouring out doggerel, I'd be able to retire.


A

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 11:45 AM

There are holes in the sky
where the rain comes in
But the holes are small,
that's why rain's thin.


Spike Milligan.

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: MMario
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 11:33 AM

Amos,MOM and all of us over at MOAB are *so* proud!

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 11:31 AM

Will the sky get a hole poked in it when it gets down as low as Mt. Everest?

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: olddude
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 11:28 AM

Well that just does it
now I can forget about climbing Mt. Everest tomorrow

I would just float away ... messed up my plans good
Gee Thanks Paul !!

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 11:26 AM

yes, thanks, Amos. How you get the rhythm and rhyme to go into place, I'll never know.

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 11:06 AM

brilliant Amos

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 10:54 AM

That last verse causes me to fear for Shane's future, Amos.

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 10:50 AM

There's Predators that fly alone
Without an onboard guide
And satellites that cross the sky
Above the oceans wide.
There's Boeings full of trippers, too,
Their phonecams by their side,
And it seems to me we've reached the age
of Eyeballs in the Sky!

Yippeee kiyayyyy! Meee, oh, myyyyy!
High-tech eyeballs in the skyyyyy!!

No more Lothario goes out
Under cover of the night
For infrared from Google Earth
Brings every move to sight!
No more to lonely beaches trek
For bits of extra nookie.
The Internet will seek you out
And nail you with your cookie!

Yippeee kiyayyyy! Meee, oh, myyyyy!
High-tech eyeballs in the skyyyyy!!

The days of reckless speed are gone
To spycams up on poles,
Which photograph the license plates
And then round up the souls!
And those who pee on walls at night
When beer has made them high,
Will also soon become extinct
From Eyeballs in the Sky!

Yippeee kiyayyyy! Meee, oh, myyyyy!
High-tech eyeballs in the skyyyyy!!

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 08:21 AM

We must go tell BB King!

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 08:20 AM

Sounds like a song: Eyeballs In The Sky.


Yippie yi Ohhhhh
Yippie yi yaaaaay
Eyeballs-s-s in the sky.

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 06:32 AM

Looks like DougR has finally been vindicated.... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 06:29 AM

Watch out for the Eyeballs in the Sky

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,Chicken Licken.
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 06:01 AM

Guess you never read my story then did you??

Subject: RE: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 04:14 AM

That must be why I get out of breath climbing stairs!

Subject: BS: THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!
From: Paul Burke
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 04:02 AM

According to Science Daily,
Observations made by NASA instruments onboard an Air Force satellite have shown that the boundary between the Earth's upper atmosphere and space has moved to extraordinarily low altitudes..

I suppose the upside is that those of us who always wanted to take a space walk can just buy a ladder.