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Title: "Northern Lights Show Signals Sun Is Waking Up" ( news piece ) Post by: KC2YOI on August 03, 2010, 09:03:37 PM * Yahoo News is pretty silly but this looked neat.
The best part of Yahoo News are the comments, crazy ideas and arguments below the story. http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100803/sc_space/spectacularnorthernlightsshowsignalssuniswakingup The Sun spots are waking the 2012 crowd up also. Title: Re: "Northern Lights Show Signals Sun Is Waking Up" ( news piece ) Post by: Pete, WA2CWA on August 03, 2010, 09:14:32 PM (http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/gif/pmapN.gif) Title: Re: "Northern Lights Show Signals Sun Is Waking Up" ( news piece ) Post by: k4kyv on August 03, 2010, 11:08:36 PM The best part of Yahoo News are the comments, crazy ideas and arguments below the story. Some of those are hilarious. But following an internet news story, I rarely read the comments any more. They always seem to quickly degenerate into lunatic fringe ramblings, flame wars and name-calling, and inevitably turn political even when there was absolutely nothing political in the original story. This is particularly true if people are allowed to comment anonymously. I forget who, but a national newspaper columnist about 15 years ago coined a very à propos phrase for this: road-kill on the information superhighway. Title: Re: "Northern Lights Show Signals Sun Is Waking Up" ( news piece ) Post by: K5UJ on August 03, 2010, 11:54:00 PM I forget who, but a national newspaper columnist about 15 years ago coined a very à propos phrase for this: road-kill on the information superhighway. You mean what is known as the "fringe fever swamps" of the Internet. Title: Re: "Northern Lights Show Signals Sun Is Waking Up" ( news piece ) Post by: Steve - WB3HUZ on August 04, 2010, 10:14:27 AM The funny thing is that newspapers are the fringe now.
Title: Re: "Northern Lights Show Signals Sun Is Waking Up" ( news piece ) Post by: flintstone mop on August 04, 2010, 08:45:15 PM CNN World Report said that we are at solar maximum now. (Did I miss the last cycle?)They were worried that the recent flare would knock out satellites. AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
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