Message-ID: <3DAC6C37.6040403@kc.rr.com> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 09:23:24 -0500 From: zscoundrel <zscoundrel@kc.rr.com> Subject: Re: Earth is coming to an end?
Yeah, I guess they are relaxing the entry requirements for Journalists.
It used to be they wanted a high school diploma and at least a
bachelors degree in English or Arts and Sciences.
Now I guess you can become and reporter or a columnist with note from
Barney.
My daddy always told me that things were usually only worth what you
paid for 'em - or less. This is especially true of the internet.
Brian Densmore wrote:
> Ummm... it's called a solar flare. Quite normal considering the sun's
> energy output has been increasing and decreasing in 22 year cycles
> within another cycle of 110 years. Heat will only cause it to "burn"
> more fuel thus shrinking in size as the atomic weights increase as a
> result of fusion thereby generating larger gravitational pull and
> greater heat. Funny I thought this was October and not April. hmmm. have
> to check that atomic clock, may need some more radium isotope!
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Mark Hutchings [mailto:mark@desynergy.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 1:47 PM
>>To: kclug@kclug.org
>>Subject: OT: Earth is coming to an end?
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>>http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20020918/103236120009.html
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>>The Sun is overheating and will soon blow up . . . taking
>>Earth and the rest of
>>the solar system with it, scientists warn.
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>>The alert was issued after an international satellite
>>photographed a massive
>>explosion on the surface of the Sun that sent a plume of fire
>>30 times longer
>>than the diameter of Earth blasting into space.
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