Monday, November 03, 2003

Solar Clusterfuck Signals Birth of Solar Age


Unprecedented Solar Clusterfuck


Sun Pyrotechnics Signals Birth of Solar Age


and/or Death of Earth




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- James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake"


Early Monday, Paal Brekke, deputy project manager of the SOHO spacecraft, was still digesting the significance of the three additional outbursts on top of two back-to-back monster flares Oct. 28 and 29.
"I think the last week will go into the history books as one of the most dramatic periods of solar activity we have seen in modern time," Brekke told SPACE.com.


http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solar_flares_031103.html

Coincidence? Or...destiny?