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  The Discovery of CMEs Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 15:50 -0600
    Re: The Discovery of CMEs jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-16 00:10 +0000
      Re: The Discovery of CMEs Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 18:31 -0600
        Re: The Discovery of CMEs jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-16 01:40 +0000
          Re: The Discovery of CMEs Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 22:20 -0600
            Re: The Discovery of CMEs jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-16 07:03 +0000
              Re: The Discovery of CMEs Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-24 21:59 -0600
                Re: The Discovery of CMEs jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-25 04:41 +0000
                  Re: The Discovery of CMEs Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-24 23:52 -0600
                    Re: The Discovery of CMEs jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-25 06:58 +0000
                      Re: The Discovery of CMEs Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-25 08:17 -0600
                        Re: The Discovery of CMEs jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-25 19:20 +0000
                Re: The Discovery of CMEs "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-01-24 22:11 -0800
    Re: The Discovery of CMEs "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-01-16 10:02 -0800

#545692 — The Discovery of CMEs

   The Discovery of CMEs
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection#First_traces


> First traces

> The largest recorded geomagnetic perturbation, resulting presumably
> from a CME, coincided with the first-observed solar flare on 1
> September 1859, and is now referred to as the Carrington Event, or
> the solar storm of 1859. The flare and the associated sunspots were
> visible to the naked eye (both as the flare itself appearing on a
> projection of the sun on a screen and as an aggregate brightening of
> the solar disc), and the flare was independently observed by English
> astronomers R. C. Carrington and R. Hodgson. The geomagnetic storm
> was observed with the recording magnetograph at Kew Gardens. The same
> instrument recorded a crochet, an instantaneous perturbation of
> Earth's ionosphere by ionizing soft X-rays. This could not easily be
> understood at the time because it predated the discovery of X-rays by
> Röntgen and the recognition of the ionosphere by Kennelly and
> Heaviside. The storm took down parts of the recently created US
> telegraph network, starting fires and shocking some telegraph
> operators.[8]
>
> Historical records were collected and new observations recorded in
> annual summaries by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific between
> 1953 and 1960.[18]
>
> First clear detections

> The first detection of a CME as such was made on 14 December 1971, by
> R. Tousey (1973) of the Naval Research Laboratory using the seventh
> Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO-7).[19] The discovery image (256 ×
> 256 pixels) was collected on a Secondary Electron Conduction (SEC)
> vidicon tube, transferred to the instrument computer after being
> digitized to 7 bits. Then it was compressed using a simple run-length
> encoding scheme and sent down to the ground at 200 bit/s. A full,
> uncompressed image would take 44 minutes to send down to the ground.
> The telemetry was sent to ground support equipment (GSE) which built
> up the image onto Polaroid print. David Roberts, an electronics
> technician working for NRL who had been responsible for the testing
> of the SEC-vidicon camera, was in charge of day-to-day operations. He
> thought that his camera had failed because certain areas of the image
> were much brighter than normal. But on the next image the bright area
> had moved away from the Sun and he immediately recognized this as
> being unusual and took it to his supervisor, Dr. Guenter
> Brueckner,[20] and then to the solar physics branch head, Dr. Tousey.
> Earlier observations of coronal transients or even phenomena observed
> visually during solar eclipses are now understood as essentially the
> same thing.



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#545732

Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
>   The Discovery of CMEs
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection#First_traces
> 
> 
>> First traces
> 
>> The largest recorded geomagnetic perturbation, resulting presumably
>> from a CME, coincided with the first-observed solar flare on 1
>> September 1859, and is now referred to as the Carrington Event, or
>> the solar storm of 1859. The flare and the associated sunspots were
>> visible to the naked eye (both as the flare itself appearing on a
>> projection of the sun on a screen and as an aggregate brightening of
>> the solar disc), and the flare was independently observed by English
>> astronomers R. C. Carrington and R. Hodgson. The geomagnetic storm
>> was observed with the recording magnetograph at Kew Gardens. The same
>> instrument recorded a crochet, an instantaneous perturbation of
>> Earth's ionosphere by ionizing soft X-rays. This could not easily be
>> understood at the time because it predated the discovery of X-rays by
>> R?ntgen and the recognition of the ionosphere by Kennelly and
>> Heaviside. The storm took down parts of the recently created US
>> telegraph network, starting fires and shocking some telegraph
>> operators.[8]
>>
>> Historical records were collected and new observations recorded in
>> annual summaries by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific between
>> 1953 and 1960.[18]
>>
>> First clear detections
> 
>> The first detection of a CME as such was made on 14 December 1971, by
>> R. Tousey (1973) of the Naval Research Laboratory using the seventh
>> Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO-7).[19] The discovery image (256 ?
>> 256 pixels) was collected on a Secondary Electron Conduction (SEC)
>> vidicon tube, transferred to the instrument computer after being
>> digitized to 7 bits. Then it was compressed using a simple run-length
>> encoding scheme and sent down to the ground at 200 bit/s. A full,
>> uncompressed image would take 44 minutes to send down to the ground.
>> The telemetry was sent to ground support equipment (GSE) which built
>> up the image onto Polaroid print. David Roberts, an electronics
>> technician working for NRL who had been responsible for the testing
>> of the SEC-vidicon camera, was in charge of day-to-day operations. He
>> thought that his camera had failed because certain areas of the image
>> were much brighter than normal. But on the next image the bright area
>> had moved away from the Sun and he immediately recognized this as
>> being unusual and took it to his supervisor, Dr. Guenter
>> Brueckner,[20] and then to the solar physics branch head, Dr. Tousey.
>> Earlier observations of coronal transients or even phenomena observed
>> visually during solar eclipses are now understood as essentially the
>> same thing.
 
Didn't know the details as indicated by my comments on your other
cut and paste spam on the subject of CME's, so you had to go and look
it up then cut and paste the results so you wouldn't look so ignorant,
right, cut and paste spamming shit head?
 
 

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#545741

On 1/15/16 6:10 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:

> Didn't know the details as indicated by my comments on your other
> cut and paste spam on the subject of CME's, so you had to go and look
> it up then cut and paste the results so you wouldn't look so ignorant,
> right, cut and paste spamming shit head?
>



   Now, now, jimp, there you go again, you're outta control, your
   language is inappropriate, and your absolute contempt and total
   disgust are addressed in these Anger Management classes. You, jimp,
   need these services:
 > http://yellowpages.com/rancho-cucamonga-ca/anger-management-classes



   The Discovery of CMEs
 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection#First_traces

 > First traces

 > The largest recorded geomagnetic perturbation, resulting presumably
 > from a CME, coincided with the first-observed solar flare on 1
 > September 1859, and is now referred to as the Carrington Event, or
 > the solar storm of 1859. The flare and the associated sunspots were
 > visible to the naked eye (both as the flare itself appearing on a
 > projection of the sun on a screen and as an aggregate brightening of
 > the solar disc), and the flare was independently observed by English
 > astronomers R. C. Carrington and R. Hodgson. The geomagnetic storm
 > was observed with the recording magnetograph at Kew Gardens. The same
 > instrument recorded a crochet, an instantaneous perturbation of
 > Earth's ionosphere by ionizing soft X-rays. This could not easily be
 > understood at the time because it predated the discovery of X-rays by
 > Röntgen and the recognition of the ionosphere by Kennelly and
 > Heaviside. The storm took down parts of the recently created US
 > telegraph network, starting fires and shocking some telegraph
 > operators.[8]
 >
 > Historical records were collected and new observations recorded in
 > annual summaries by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific between
 > 1953 and 1960.[18]
 >
 > First clear detections

 > The first detection of a CME as such was made on 14 December 1971, by
 > R. Tousey (1973) of the Naval Research Laboratory using the seventh
 > Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO-7).[19] The discovery image (256 ×
 > 256 pixels) was collected on a Secondary Electron Conduction (SEC)
 > vidicon tube, transferred to the instrument computer after being
 > digitized to 7 bits. Then it was compressed using a simple run-length
 > encoding scheme and sent down to the ground at 200 bit/s. A full,
 > uncompressed image would take 44 minutes to send down to the ground.
 > The telemetry was sent to ground support equipment (GSE) which built
 > up the image onto Polaroid print. David Roberts, an electronics
 > technician working for NRL who had been responsible for the testing
 > of the SEC-vidicon camera, was in charge of day-to-day operations. He
 > thought that his camera had failed because certain areas of the image
 > were much brighter than normal. But on the next image the bright area
 > had moved away from the Sun and he immediately recognized this as
 > being unusual and took it to his supervisor, Dr. Guenter
 > Brueckner,[20] and then to the solar physics branch head, Dr. Tousey.
 > Earlier observations of coronal transients or even phenomena observed
 > visually during solar eclipses are now understood as essentially the
 > same thing.


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#545766

Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/15/16 6:10 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> 
>> Didn't know the details as indicated by my comments on your other
>> cut and paste spam on the subject of CME's, so you had to go and look
>> it up then cut and paste the results so you wouldn't look so ignorant,
>> right, cut and paste spamming shit head?
>>
> 
> 
> 
>   Now, now, jimp, there you go again, you're outta control, your

Fuck off and die, cut and paste, spamming shit head.



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#545792

On 1/15/16 7:40 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> Fuck off and die, cut and paste, spamming shit head.




   Now, now, jimp, there you go again, you're outta control, your
   language is inappropriate, and your absolute contempt and total
   disgust are addressed in these Anger Management classes. You, jimp,
   need these services:
 > http://yellowpages.com/rancho-cucamonga-ca/anger-management-classes



   The Discovery of CMEs
 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection#First_traces

 > First traces

 > The largest recorded geomagnetic perturbation, resulting presumably
 > from a CME, coincided with the first-observed solar flare on 1
 > September 1859, and is now referred to as the Carrington Event, or
 > the solar storm of 1859. The flare and the associated sunspots were
 > visible to the naked eye (both as the flare itself appearing on a
 > projection of the sun on a screen and as an aggregate brightening of
 > the solar disc), and the flare was independently observed by English
 > astronomers R. C. Carrington and R. Hodgson. The geomagnetic storm
 > was observed with the recording magnetograph at Kew Gardens. The same
 > instrument recorded a crochet, an instantaneous perturbation of
 > Earth's ionosphere by ionizing soft X-rays. This could not easily be
 > understood at the time because it predated the discovery of X-rays by
 > Röntgen and the recognition of the ionosphere by Kennelly and
 > Heaviside. The storm took down parts of the recently created US
 > telegraph network, starting fires and shocking some telegraph
 > operators.[8]
 >
 > Historical records were collected and new observations recorded in
 > annual summaries by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific between
 > 1953 and 1960.[18]
 >
 > First clear detections

 > The first detection of a CME as such was made on 14 December 1971, by
 > R. Tousey (1973) of the Naval Research Laboratory using the seventh
 > Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO-7).[19] The discovery image (256 ×
 > 256 pixels) was collected on a Secondary Electron Conduction (SEC)
 > vidicon tube, transferred to the instrument computer after being
 > digitized to 7 bits. Then it was compressed using a simple run-length
 > encoding scheme and sent down to the ground at 200 bit/s. A full,
 > uncompressed image would take 44 minutes to send down to the ground.
 > The telemetry was sent to ground support equipment (GSE) which built
 > up the image onto Polaroid print. David Roberts, an electronics
 > technician working for NRL who had been responsible for the testing
 > of the SEC-vidicon camera, was in charge of day-to-day operations. He
 > thought that his camera had failed because certain areas of the image
 > were much brighter than normal. But on the next image the bright area
 > had moved away from the Sun and he immediately recognized this as
 > being unusual and took it to his supervisor, Dr. Guenter
 > Brueckner,[20] and then to the solar physics branch head, Dr. Tousey.
 > Earlier observations of coronal transients or even phenomena observed
 > visually during solar eclipses are now understood as essentially the
 > same thing.



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#545816

Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/15/16 7:40 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> Fuck off and die, cut and paste, spamming shit head.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   Now, now, jimp, there you go again, you're outta control, your

Fuck off and die, cut and paste, spamming shit head.

You continuing to live is inappropriate.



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#547880

On 1/16/16 1:03 AM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> Fuck off and die, cut and paste, spamming shit head.




   Now, now, jimp, there you go again, you're outta control, your
   language is inappropriate, and your absolute contempt and total
   disgust are addressed in these Anger Management classes. You, jimp,
   need these services:
 > http://yellowpages.com/rancho-cucamonga-ca/anger-management-classes



   The Discovery of CMEs
 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection#First_traces

 > First traces

 > The largest recorded geomagnetic perturbation, resulting presumably
 > from a CME, coincided with the first-observed solar flare on 1
 > September 1859, and is now referred to as the Carrington Event, or
 > the solar storm of 1859. The flare and the associated sunspots were
 > visible to the naked eye (both as the flare itself appearing on a
 > projection of the sun on a screen and as an aggregate brightening of
 > the solar disc), and the flare was independently observed by English
 > astronomers R. C. Carrington and R. Hodgson. The geomagnetic storm
 > was observed with the recording magnetograph at Kew Gardens. The same
 > instrument recorded a crochet, an instantaneous perturbation of
 > Earth's ionosphere by ionizing soft X-rays. This could not easily be
 > understood at the time because it predated the discovery of X-rays by
 > Röntgen and the recognition of the ionosphere by Kennelly and
 > Heaviside. The storm took down parts of the recently created US
 > telegraph network, starting fires and shocking some telegraph
 > operators.[8]
 >
 > Historical records were collected and new observations recorded in
 > annual summaries by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific between
 > 1953 and 1960.[18]
 >
 > First clear detections

 > The first detection of a CME as such was made on 14 December 1971, by
 > R. Tousey (1973) of the Naval Research Laboratory using the seventh
 > Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO-7).[19] The discovery image (256 ×
 > 256 pixels) was collected on a Secondary Electron Conduction (SEC)
 > vidicon tube, transferred to the instrument computer after being
 > digitized to 7 bits. Then it was compressed using a simple run-length
 > encoding scheme and sent down to the ground at 200 bit/s. A full,
 > uncompressed image would take 44 minutes to send down to the ground.
 > The telemetry was sent to ground support equipment (GSE) which built
 > up the image onto Polaroid print. David Roberts, an electronics
 > technician working for NRL who had been responsible for the testing
 > of the SEC-vidicon camera, was in charge of day-to-day operations. He
 > thought that his camera had failed because certain areas of the image
 > were much brighter than normal. But on the next image the bright area
 > had moved away from the Sun and he immediately recognized this as
 > being unusual and took it to his supervisor, Dr. Guenter
 > Brueckner,[20] and then to the solar physics branch head, Dr. Tousey.
 > Earlier observations of coronal transients or even phenomena observed
 > visually during solar eclipses are now understood as essentially the
 > same thing.



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#547894

Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/16/16 1:03 AM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> Fuck off and die, cut and paste, spamming shit head.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   Now, now, jimp, there you go again, you're outta control, your

Fuck off and die, cut and paste, copyright violating, shit head.


-- 
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#547925

On 1/24/16 10:41 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> Fuck off and die, cut and paste, copyright violating, shit head.



   Now, now, jimp, there you go again, you're outta control, your
   language is inappropriate, and your absolute contempt and total
   disgust are addressed in these Anger Management classes. You, jimp,
   need these services:
 > http://yellowpages.com/rancho-cucamonga-ca/anger-management-classes



   The Discovery of CMEs
 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection#First_traces

 > First traces

 > The largest recorded geomagnetic perturbation, resulting presumably
 > from a CME, coincided with the first-observed solar flare on 1
 > September 1859, and is now referred to as the Carrington Event, or
 > the solar storm of 1859. The flare and the associated sunspots were
 > visible to the naked eye (both as the flare itself appearing on a
 > projection of the sun on a screen and as an aggregate brightening of
 > the solar disc), and the flare was independently observed by English
 > astronomers R. C. Carrington and R. Hodgson. The geomagnetic storm
 > was observed with the recording magnetograph at Kew Gardens. The same
 > instrument recorded a crochet, an instantaneous perturbation of
 > Earth's ionosphere by ionizing soft X-rays. This could not easily be
 > understood at the time because it predated the discovery of X-rays by
 > Röntgen and the recognition of the ionosphere by Kennelly and
 > Heaviside. The storm took down parts of the recently created US
 > telegraph network, starting fires and shocking some telegraph
 > operators.[8]
 >
 > Historical records were collected and new observations recorded in
 > annual summaries by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific between
 > 1953 and 1960.[18]
 >
 > First clear detections

 > The first detection of a CME as such was made on 14 December 1971, by
 > R. Tousey (1973) of the Naval Research Laboratory using the seventh
 > Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO-7).[19] The discovery image (256 ×
 > 256 pixels) was collected on a Secondary Electron Conduction (SEC)
 > vidicon tube, transferred to the instrument computer after being
 > digitized to 7 bits. Then it was compressed using a simple run-length
 > encoding scheme and sent down to the ground at 200 bit/s. A full,
 > uncompressed image would take 44 minutes to send down to the ground.
 > The telemetry was sent to ground support equipment (GSE) which built
 > up the image onto Polaroid print. David Roberts, an electronics
 > technician working for NRL who had been responsible for the testing
 > of the SEC-vidicon camera, was in charge of day-to-day operations. He
 > thought that his camera had failed because certain areas of the image
 > were much brighter than normal. But on the next image the bright area
 > had moved away from the Sun and he immediately recognized this as
 > being unusual and took it to his supervisor, Dr. Guenter
 > Brueckner,[20] and then to the solar physics branch head, Dr. Tousey.
 > Earlier observations of coronal transients or even phenomena observed
 > visually during solar eclipses are now understood as essentially the
 > same thing.

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#547950

Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/24/16 10:41 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> Fuck off and die, cut and paste, copyright violating, shit head.
> 
> 
> 
>   Now, now, jimp, there you go again, you're outta control, your

Fuck off and die, cut and paste, copyright violating, shit head.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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#547990

On 1/25/16 12:58 AM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> Fuck off and die, cut and paste, copyright violating, shit head.



   Now, now, jimp, there you go again, you're outta control, your
   language is inappropriate, and your absolute contempt and total
   disgust are addressed in these Anger Management classes. You, jimp,
   need these services:
 > http://yellowpages.com/rancho-cucamonga-ca/anger-management-classes



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#548060

Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/25/16 12:58 AM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> Fuck off and die, cut and paste, copyright violating, shit head.
> 
> 
> 
>   Now, now, jimp, there you go again, you're outta control, your

Get your copyright violations under control, cut and paste, copyright
violating, shit head.


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Jim Pennino

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#547930

"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jim Pennino  jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> Sam, Fuck off and die, cut and paste, spamming shit head.
>
Sam Wormley wrote:
>   Now, now, jimp, there you go again, you're outta control, your
>   language is inappropriate, and your absolute contempt and total
>   disgust are addressed in these Anger Management classes. You, jimp,
>   need these services:
> > http://yellowpages.com/rancho-cucamonga-ca/anger-management-classes
>
hanson wrote:
Well Sam, if Pennino's posts do irritate you, then obviously
your advice above is useless. BUT you can do yourself what
you have preached. When your ex-protégé, Full Swine Glazier,
complained about me reposting Glazier's own Glazierola
you told him to ignore me.  It seemed to have worked for a
short while, until Swine Glazier's urge to be "loved by all"
overwhelmed him. -- Pity. -- Do better Sam...... ahahaha...
>
"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@gmail.com> pa/osted:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection#First_traces
> > .... solar flare on 1September 1859that predated the discovery of X-rays 
> > & took down parts of the recently created US
> > telegraph network, starting fires and shocking some telegraph
> > operators.
> > CME as such was made on 14 December 1971 when observations
> >  of coronal transients or even phenomena observed  visually during solar 
> > eclipses are now understood as essentially the same thing.
>
hanson wrote:
That's all old hat and is aired every year 3-4 times on News at 11
and the History/H2/Discovery/PBS channel in  interesting 1 hr long
shows.
>
The last one was about the CME which hit the earth in 2014, but
which was missed by the astro community which then cried that it
had stripped part of the earth's magnetic field and along with it the
upper earth's atmosphere... all of which was after the fact:.. FUD!
to frighten the folks.. especially that loss of atmosphere... ahahahaha..
>
It is of course  understandable that the CC-Clowns did NOT use
that CME event to explain their advertised record GW Temps of
2015.., because the CME was not a result of anthropic activities...
Bastards... fugg'em!.. CC advocates are lying Kacksackers
(different and worse then cocksucking enviros))
>
Botton-line, Sam. Scientists of any discipline must produce NEWS.
And good News is no News. And no News cuts funding. Pity
>
However all this information and FUD mastering is as ancient
as are Human communications...  .. But real Danger??
>
Sometimes yes, sure, but on the global, geological time scale
it is NOT.
>
If these natural dangers were of a magnitude that endangers
human existence, we  would not have been able to multiply from
a few 10-100K Afros into the almost 10 Billion Schmuck-faces
that populate the globe now , pole to pole to pole, since the
passage of the last few million years or so....  So, ... so, ...
>
Sam you can stay ON the fat one there in row two for a long
time before a CME effect forces you get you off her.
== Caveat: Mid you though. All good things come to an end ==
>
<http://tinyurl.com/CC-AG-warmed-Wormley>,  ahahahahanson 

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#545853

On Friday, January 15, 2016 at 1:50:25 PM UTC-8, Sam Wormley wrote:
> The Discovery of CMEs
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection#First_traces
> 
> 
> > First traces
> 
> > The largest recorded geomagnetic perturbation, resulting presumably
> > from a CME, coincided with the first-observed solar flare on 1
> > September 1859, and is now referred to as the Carrington Event, or
> > the solar storm of 1859. The flare and the associated sunspots were
> > visible to the naked eye (both as the flare itself appearing on a
> > projection of the sun on a screen and as an aggregate brightening of
> > the solar disc), and the flare was independently observed by English
> > astronomers R. C. Carrington and R. Hodgson. The geomagnetic storm
> > was observed with the recording magnetograph at Kew Gardens. The same
> > instrument recorded a crochet, an instantaneous perturbation of
> > Earth's ionosphere by ionizing soft X-rays. This could not easily be
> > understood at the time because it predated the discovery of X-rays by
> > Röntgen and the recognition of the ionosphere by Kennelly and
> > Heaviside. The storm took down parts of the recently created US
> > telegraph network, starting fires and shocking some telegraph
> > operators.[8]
> >
> > Historical records were collected and new observations recorded in
> > annual summaries by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific between
> > 1953 and 1960.[18]
> >
> > First clear detections
> 
> > The first detection of a CME as such was made on 14 December 1971, by
> > R. Tousey (1973) of the Naval Research Laboratory using the seventh
> > Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO-7).[19] The discovery image (256 ×
> > 256 pixels) was collected on a Secondary Electron Conduction (SEC)
> > vidicon tube, transferred to the instrument computer after being
> > digitized to 7 bits. Then it was compressed using a simple run-length
> > encoding scheme and sent down to the ground at 200 bit/s. A full,
> > uncompressed image would take 44 minutes to send down to the ground.
> > The telemetry was sent to ground support equipment (GSE) which built
> > up the image onto Polaroid print. David Roberts, an electronics
> > technician working for NRL who had been responsible for the testing
> > of the SEC-vidicon camera, was in charge of day-to-day operations. He
> > thought that his camera had failed because certain areas of the image
> > were much brighter than normal. But on the next image the bright area
> > had moved away from the Sun and he immediately recognized this as
> > being unusual and took it to his supervisor, Dr. Guenter
> > Brueckner,[20] and then to the solar physics branch head, Dr. Tousey.
> > Earlier observations of coronal transients or even phenomena observed
> > visually during solar eclipses are now understood as essentially the
> > same thing.
> 
> 
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Sun's surface is rippling with EM.These electons are streaking along Sun's high energy photons.Fact is from time to time we see great eruptions taking place.They have been studied for many years.A bad EM Sun eruption can show up on our computer screens as well as radio and TV  TreBert

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