The sun god is angry; Sun's activity 'plummets'

[afleitch]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25743806

' "I've been a solar physicist for 30 years, and I've never seen anything quite like this," says Richard Harrison, head of space physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.

He shows me recent footage captured by spacecraft that have their sights trained on our star. The Sun is revealed in exquisite detail, but its face is strangely featureless.

"If you want to go back to see when the Sun was this inactive... you've got to go back about 100 years," he says.

This solar lull is baffling scientists, because right now the Sun should be awash with activity. '

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Didn't the Sun also experience a lull in activity through most of the 1700s?

[MaxQue]

Too bad it's the the British tabloid whichis going through a lull.

From what I remember (but astronomy isn't my area of expertise), variation is pretty normal, so, there is nothing worrying there (except if it's the quiet before the storm).

[Ban my account ffs!]

Too bad it's the the British tabloid whichis going through a lull.

From what I remember (but astronomy isn't my area of expertise), variation is pretty normal, so, there is nothing worrying there (except if it's the quiet before the storm).

This is like the most stereotypical example of the typical French attitude towards the British I've ever seen.

"wat de f**k you so warried for?  We are all going to hell anyway... huuuh huuuh huuuh"

[Joe Republic]

Hmm, better get these guys on the job:

[MaxQue]

Too bad it's the the British tabloid whichis going through a lull.

From what I remember (but astronomy isn't my area of expertise), variation is pretty normal, so, there is nothing worrying there (except if it's the quiet before the storm).

This is like the most stereotypical example of the typical French attitude towards the British I've ever seen.

"wat de f**k you so warried for?  We are all going to hell anyway... huuuh huuuh huuuh"

So, I take it than you endorse wiretapping phones to write news and sell paper? You endorse them having no respect for private life?

[Joe Republic]

... That was arguably the worst strawman I've ever seen.

[afleitch]

Since when was the BBC a tabloid?

[Ban my account ffs!]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25743806

' "I've been a solar physicist for 30 years, and I've never seen anything quite like this," says Richard Harrison, head of space physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.

He shows me recent footage captured by spacecraft that have their sights trained on our star. The Sun is revealed in exquisite detail, but its face is strangely featureless.

"If you want to go back to see when the Sun was this inactive... you've got to go back about 100 years," he says.

This solar lull is baffling scientists, because right now the Sun should be awash with activity. '

For a profession that is often so sure about itself, scientists sure seem to be "baffled" a lot with these types of things.