Comments on: NASA’s Next Observatory Will Stare at the Sun; Predict Solar Storms http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/02/03/nasas-next-observatory-will-stare-at-the-sun-predict-solar-storms/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Wed, 16 May 2012 19:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: A pothead witth a tinfoil hat http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/02/03/nasas-next-observatory-will-stare-at-the-sun-predict-solar-storms/comment-page-1/#comment-106009 A pothead witth a tinfoil hat Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:57:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=9817#comment-106009 The only thing worse than a churchy thread is one that conceitedly feigns a scientific basis for an unsupported hypothesis. (or, B.S. sucks) So, what about sunspots being the "fire from the skies" in the Mayan countdown calender, culminating in cataclysm in 2012? Those wacky Mayans made sophisticated calculations that lead to an incredibly accurate calender. Maybe they incorperated flare activity in their projections too. I am high :)- The only thing worse than a churchy thread is one that conceitedly feigns a scientific basis for an unsupported hypothesis. (or, B.S. sucks)

So, what about sunspots being the “fire from the skies” in the Mayan countdown calender, culminating in cataclysm in 2012? Those wacky Mayans made sophisticated calculations that lead to an incredibly accurate calender. Maybe they incorperated flare activity in their projections too. I am high :)-

]]> By: Gregg http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/02/03/nasas-next-observatory-will-stare-at-the-sun-predict-solar-storms/comment-page-1/#comment-104670 Gregg Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:59:14 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=9817#comment-104670 I really enjoyed the post, especially the historical reference to the disruption of the telegraph in 1859. We tend to think of communications grid failure as a recent phenomena. Not so. I really enjoyed the post, especially the historical reference to the disruption of the telegraph in 1859. We tend to think of communications grid failure as a recent phenomena. Not so.

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