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Has anyone read anything like this elsewhere?

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201204200075

No. I hope it doesn't explode.

Here comes that whole Mayan doomsday thing.  ;)

Will that affect my asparagus?

There goes my retirement DANG  >:(

It has affected our asparagus. So far I see only one asparagus sprout in the patch.  It's going to be difficult to divide that one sprout for three people.  Hope I don't get the lower tough part.

Fred

We have an ass in a pen out back.  His name is Gandalf the grey.  He says it is just hot, but not hotter than usual.

73DG

That will make it harder to navigate around on the sun having two north poles and two south's, epically at night.  Maybe the solution is to secure federal funding for a second set of GPS satellites in solar orbit so future solar navigators won't have to rely on the suns undependable magnetic poles.

Still won't be able to make popcorn. They are one short.

Will the suns' frequency go up or will its rotation go down? I can't remember how this werks.

klc

I wonder how they detect this, the poles of the Sun. Quite intriguing.

Here's how they do it now. I still wonder how we figured out the sun's magnetic field before we had this fancy cutting-edge stuff.

"They watched the sun in the microwave wavelengths – which are used to observe the area of the sun's atmosphere just above the surface, known as the chromosphere.

.... By mapping the brightness of the microwave radiation throughout the chromosphere, the scientists showed that the intensity at the north pole has already dropped to the threshold that was reached in the last solar maximum cycle, suggesting the onset of solar max there. This is backed by the fact that prominence eruptions are also occurring at high latitudes in the north. Eruption activity in the south half of the sun, however, is only just beginning to increase – the first CME occurred there in early March 2012."

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/04/the-great-switch-suns-magnetic-field-does-a-complete-reverse-every-11-years.html

There have been unusual citings of the Sun lately. Very strange things taking place under the fiery surface and what looks like tornadoes swirling around.
The Sun ( and us ) are going through some energy field in space and there will be more events taking place for the next hundred years.  :o
We'll have to take it a day at a time.

Fred

Sun May Develop 4 Poles?

They may four very lucky Poles.  Any Polish hams here that might benefit from that  development?

Or maybe it will become a 4-pole solar motor.

 ;)- ;)- ;)- ;)-

73DG

Certainly not to detract from the ongoing saga of the Azorian anchovies, but last night when this post first appeared, I forwarded the URL on to a geology professor friend of mine at work. He's done a lot of work in paleomagnetism and such -- researching when in the past the magnetic poles of Earth have flipped, etc.

I stopped by his lab for coffee this morning on the way in and we discussed the story. He opined that the development of two more magnetic poles on the Sun would be "no big deal" and pointed out that Earth currently has 10 magnetic poles. One main dipole which forms the North and South magnetic poles, and four lesser dipoles pretty much equidistant around the globe, each having a "north" and "south" pole.

So, according to him, this won't be the event that fulfills the Mayan calendar.

OK, let's get back to the Azores, which was really more fun anyway  ;D

The question is, are we about to enter a new Maunder Minimum, or aren't we?  We'll know for sure in a few decades, after the next few solar cycles are observed.  Unfortunately, most of us won't still be here to see the results. Kinda like climate change and global warming.