Could the latest decline coincide with the decreased period of solar activity as of late? Can we get someone to tell us if over the past 50 years has solar activity been decreasing or increasing?

Originally posted by InterestedObserver
Could the latest decline coincide with the decreased period of solar activity as of late?

I don't know. It is a very strange relationship between the sun and the heliosphere. I know something is definitely changing, and we see it in the very quiet sun spot activity being reported during a supposed solar maximum activity period.

As for equating it to the end times, that is what it says in the Bible. I am quoting in the correct context.

Another fascinating passage concerning the end times in the Bible is where it says knowledge will greatly increase and the "chariots" (cars) will jostle (drive) back and forth.

The prophet was seeing cars, but could only compare it to what he currently knew to be similar...thus the chariot description.

I emailed the science section of their info website for more details. I'll post here when they send me information back.

Although this may seem scary, the fact of the matter is the Sun is in a new solar cycle [24] and is not producing very many sunspots. The activity of the sun, may be related to this defensive shield, and the electromagnetic relationship could be directly linked to the suns activity.

No panic button for me yet.

Does this prove global warming?

if it truly meant that mankind could die out, would that drive us more toward space colonization or genetic manipulation?

just some sci-fi questions i'm throwing out there as possible solutions. governments may run in circles but when scientists get together with a common goal, things get accomplished...especially if they are all the same level of crazy hehe



that is odd about the sun but really before we know more about it there's really no way to know one way or another if this is the end of times or whatever. i mean it may just be part of a natural cycle and will correct itself naturally.

then again if it is the end of time and all that there's still no reason to get into a panic because it will all be over soon anyway. then maybe people would learn all at once, right at the end, just how much we all take for granted and how it could have been better and then we'll have learned our lessons before blinking out of existence

Originally posted by TH3ON3

Well I hate to say I told you so, but...

I knew this would happen because it states this as a fact in the writings of the Bible. It states the sun will scorch men in the end days!

So it must have many concerned for NASA to be planning on launching a mission to study the anomaly.

It's easy for me to be prophetic when someone already stated it thousands of years ago.

Time to get off your soapbox mate, nothing to see here. As the very last line in the article states (which you must have skipped over in your excitement):

“It is likely that there are natural variations in solar wind pressure and over time it will either stabilise or start going back up.”

Quite simply put, although the data seems alarming at first glance the scientists (and myself) believe it is simply part of a natural cycle that fluctuates over a given period of time. Because we have only really been studying the Sun closely for about 50-odd years this is the first time we have detected it yes, but that does not mean it is the first time it has occurred.



[edit on 20/10/2008 by Kryties]