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Originally posted by win 52
If people would have read the article I posted a few days ago, they should have seen this, which makes this thread obsolete for a companion star, but still valid for a meteor shower worthy of watching out for.
It is not hopeless and many will survive with little protection. It seems to be a matter of timing and luck, if you find your self in one of these drop zones.
The sunny disposition of the weather during the coronation (of Charles II) was seen as the fulfillment of a prophecy. In 1630, at the time of Charles' birth, a noonday star or rival sun allegedly had appeared in the sky. [...]
Aurelian Cook in Titus Britannicus explained its import: 'As soon as Born, Heaven took notice of him, and eyed him with a star, appearing in defiance of the Sun at Noonday....'
For Cook, the extra sun announced that Charles ruled by divine right. Moreover, the timing of Charles' entry into London on his birthday was politically calculated to fulfill what had been portended at his birth. Abraham Cowley, poet, diplomat and spy for the court wrote: 'No Star amongst ye all did, I believe, Such Vigorous assistance give, As that which thirty years ago, At Charls his Birth, did in despight of the proud Suns' Meridian Light, His future Glories, this Year foreshow.
I just had to throw this in for good measure. It is a long article and people might not have read all of it.
Please note that Abell is suggesting that some of Jupiter's moons have been captured by Jupiter's gravity.
Now let's time travel back to the future, and see what the latest information tells us about Jupiter's moons:
Jupiter is now given 63 satellites. Forty-seven of those satellites have been discovered since 1999. What if they weren't there before?
What about Saturn. Our 1975 text tells us that Saturn has 10 satellites. In 2007? Well, there are so many that one source declines to give a precise number!
However, counting the named satellites on the Timeline of discovery of solar system planets and their natural satellites gives us a count of 62, with 41 being discovered since 2000 and another ten in the 80's and 90's.
Moving outward, we come to Uranus, given five satellites in 1975, it now has 28, with ten being discovered in the 1980's, six in the 90's, and 7 since 2000.
Neptune had two satellites in 1975, now it has 13.
[edit on 31-5-2010 by win 52]
Originally posted by win 52
widely agreed upon as some of the most significant. They are:
The late Ordovician period (about 438 million years ago) - 100 families extinct - more than half of the bryozoan and brachiopod species extinct.
78 million years later:
The late Devonian (about 360 mya) - 30% of animal families extinct.
106 million years later:
At the end of the Permian period (about 245 mya) - Trilobites go extinct. 50% of all animal families, 95% of all marine species, and many trees die out.
37 million years later:
The late Triassic (208 mya) - 35% of all animal families die out. Most early dinosaur families went extinct, and most synapsids died out (except for the mammals).
143 million years later:
At the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary (about 65 mya) - about half of all life forms died out, including the dinosaurs, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, ammonites, many families of fishes, clams, snails, sponges, sea urchins and many others.
Originally posted by keops
Originally posted by win 52
The solar flares predicted by governments, for 2013 will also wipe out microwave communication devices, so they say. There will be no TV, cell phones or internet and will likely interfere with the electronics of vehicles also.
I say get ready for no communication or travel, for a while.
This is about the only way to wake people up to reality. Remove the distractions.
Dr Paul La Violette said he can't predict when this solar flare will wipe out the power grid ?so where did you get this info from? I agree the next one will be in spring 2013 so what?
True Polar wander (defined as the motion of the entire solid earth with respect to the spin axis in response to changes in mass distribution within the planet in an attempt to maintain rotational equilibrium) has long been considered a process that should compliment plate tectonics.
However, large amounts of TPW have not been observed confidently in the geologic record.
One possible trigger for a major change within the mantle is the disposition of subducted oceanic slabs. It is predicted that the phase change in mantle mineralogy at a depth of around 660 km could affect the buoyancy of subducted slabs, and that in some cases the slabs may get "hung up" in this region, and then break through en masse - abruptly shifting the distribution of mass within the earth.