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Friday, June 25, 2004

Hmm, now this article below is interesting. Seems as if astronomers are constantly correcting themselves, and it does sort of make one wonder whether our earth might not, even at this very moment, be on the verge of extinction!? The sun has done some strange things in the past, as evidenced by this article:

Astronomy.com | Solar funk

The last paragraph is the clencher:

“We still don’t understand what’s going on in our Sun, how magnetic fields generate the 11-year solar cycle, or what caused the magnetic Maunder minimum,” Marcy said. “In particular, we don’t know how often a Sun-like star falls into a Maunder minimum, or when the next minimum will occur. It could be tomorrow.”

It's stuff like this that makes human existence a mad, mad world, no?

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