GIANT SUNSPOT seen with naked eye : There\'s a big dark spot in the middle of the sun. David J Kriegler saw it last night at sunset over Gul...

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GIANT SUNSPOT: There\'s a big dark spot in the middle of the sun. David J Kriegler saw it last night at sunset over Gulf Shores, Alabama:


This is AR3190, one of the largest sunspots of surging Solar Cycle 25. \"It\'s almost five times the diameter of Earth, and could be seen through the thick humid atmosphere over the Gulf of Mexico,\" says Kriegler.

The scale of AR3190 makes it an easy target for amateur astronomers. You don\'t even need a solar telescope. Eclipse glasses work, too. You might have some old ones left over from 2017; if not, here\'s where you can get a new pair.

Caution: Sunset photos like Kriegler\'s are possible, but be careful. Even when the sun is dimmed by low clouds or haze, looking directly through the camera can damage your eyes. Always use the LCD screen for viewfinding.

https://spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=191725

https://spaceweather.com/

 

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a a <manta103g@gmail.com> wrote in news:7f6f1ecb-a0aa-41ac-8097-
22e2b37b6844n@googlegroups.com:

There\'s a big dark spot in the middle of the...

Oh no! Get as far away from Jupiter as you can!

My God! It\'s lost its chemical stain!

Open the door, Hal...

I can\'t do that, Dave.

 

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On Tuesday, 24 January 2023 at 07:49:30 UTC+1, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:

a a <mant...@gmail.com> wrote in news:7f6f1ecb-a0aa-41ac-8097-
22e2b3...@googlegroups.com:

There\'s a big dark spot in the middle of the...


Oh no! Get as far away from Jupiter as you can!

My God! It\'s lost its chemical stain!

Open the door, Hal...

I can\'t do that, Dave.
Knowing (Nicolas Cage - movie)

\"The next day, Abby colors in the sun on the engraving, which gives John a revelation. He rushes to the MIT observatory and learns that a major solar flare with the potential to destroy all life will strike the Earth on the last date indicated by the message. As Diana and Abby prepare to take refuge in nearby caves, John goes to the school and finds the door on which Lucinda engraved the final numbers and identifies them as coordinates of a place where he believes they may find salvation from the solar flare. The skeptical and hysterical Diana loads Caleb and Abby into her car and flees for the caves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowing_(film)


At a gas station, the whispering beings steal Diana\'s car with Caleb and Abby inside. Diana pursues them at speed in a stolen SUV, but is killed in a collision with a semi-truck on the date her mother predicted. The beings take Caleb and Abby to Lucinda\'s mobile home, where John encounters them shortly thereafter. The beings, acting as extraterrestrial angels, are leading children to safety on interstellar arks. John is told he cannot go with them because he never heard the whispering, so he convinces Caleb to leave with Abby and two pet rabbits they found, and both are transported away by the beings. The ark, along with many other arks, leave Earth. The following morning, John decides to be with his family when the flare strikes and drives through a chaotic Boston to his parents\' house, where he reconciles with his estranged father. The solar flare then strikes, destroying all life on Earth. Meanwhile, the ark, along with others, deposits Caleb and Abby in another world resembling an earthly paradise and departs. The two run through a field towards a large white mysterious tree (implied to be the tree of life).
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZbXA4lyCtqpDsx0EM64fq91rPAAvtfr6

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnLAPEsXwAALJNW?format=jpg&name=small


https://www.bing.com/search?q=Knowing+Nicolas+Cage&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=knowing+nicolas+cage&sc=7-20&

 

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On Tuesday, 24 January 2023 at 12:32:28 UTC+1, a a wrote:

On Tuesday, 24 January 2023 at 07:49:30 UTC+1, DecadentLinux...@decadence..org wrote:
a a <mant...@gmail.com> wrote in news:7f6f1ecb-a0aa-41ac-8097-
22e2b3...@googlegroups.com:

There\'s a big dark spot in the middle of the...


Oh no! Get as far away from Jupiter as you can!

My God! It\'s lost its chemical stain!

Open the door, Hal...

I can\'t do that, Dave.
Knowing (Nicolas Cage - movie)


\"The next day, Abby colors in the sun on the engraving, which gives John a revelation. He rushes to the MIT observatory and learns that a major solar flare with the potential to destroy all life will strike the Earth on the last date indicated by the message. As Diana and Abby prepare to take refuge in nearby caves, John goes to the school and finds the door on which Lucinda engraved the final numbers and identifies them as coordinates of a place where he believes they may find salvation from the solar flare. The skeptical and hysterical Diana loads Caleb and Abby into her car and flees for the caves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowing_(film)


At a gas station, the whispering beings steal Diana\'s car with Caleb and Abby inside. Diana pursues them at speed in a stolen SUV, but is killed in a collision with a semi-truck on the date her mother predicted. The beings take Caleb and Abby to Lucinda\'s mobile home, where John encounters them shortly thereafter. The beings, acting as extraterrestrial angels, are leading children to safety on interstellar arks. John is told he cannot go with them because he never heard the whispering, so he convinces Caleb to leave with Abby and two pet rabbits they found, and both are transported away by the beings. The ark, along with many other arks, leave Earth. The following morning, John decides to be with his family when the flare strikes and drives through a chaotic Boston to his parents\' house, where he reconciles with his estranged father. The solar flare then strikes, destroying all life on Earth. Meanwhile, the ark, along with others, deposits Caleb and Abby in another world resembling an earthly paradise and departs. The two run through a field towards a large white mysterious tree (implied to be the tree of life).
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZbXA4lyCtqpDsx0EM64fq91rPAAvtfr6

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnLAPEsXwAALJNW?format=jpg&name=small


https://www.bing.com/search?q=Knowing+Nicolas+Cage&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=knowing+nicolas+cage&sc=7-20&

\"Production
Camberwell High School, a public secondary school in Victoria, was used as the filming location for William Dawes Elementary

In 2001, novelist Ryne Douglas Pearson approached producers Todd Black and Jason Blumenthal with his idea for a film, where a time capsule from the 1950s is opened revealing fulfilled prophecies, of which the last one ended with \'EE\' – \"everyone else\". The producers liked the concept and bought his script.[5] The project was set up at Columbia Pictures. Both Rod Lurie and Richard Kelly were attached as directors, but the film eventually went into turnaround. The project was picked up by the production company Escape Artists, and the script was rewritten by Stiles White and Juliet Snowden. Director Alex Proyas was attached to direct the project in February 2005.[6] Proyas said the aspect that attracted him the most was the \"very different script\" and the notion of people seeing the future and \"how it shape their lives\".[5] Summit Entertainment took on the responsibility to fully finance and distribute the film. Proyas and Stuart Hazeldine rewrote the draft for production,[7] which began on March 25, 2008 in Melbourne, Australia..[8] The director hoped to emulate The Exorcist in melding \"realism with a fantastical premise\".[9]

The film is set primarily in the town of Lexington with some scenes set in the nearby cities of Cambridge and Boston. However, it was shot in Australia, where director Proyas resides.[5] Locations included the Geelong Ring Road; the Melbourne Museum; \"Cooinda\", a residence in Mount Macedon which was the location for all of the \"home and garden\" scenes; and Collins Street.[2] Filming also took place at Camberwell High School, which was converted into the fictional William Dawes Elementary, located in 1959 Lexington.[10][11] Interior shots took place at the Australian Synchrotron to represent an observatory.[12][13] Filming also took place at the Haystack Observatory in Westford, Massachusetts.[14] In addition to practical locations, filming also took place at the Melbourne Central City Studios in Docklands.[15] The plane crash, which was mostly shown in one take in the film, was done in a nearly-finished freeway outside Melbourne, the Geelong Ring Road, mixing practical effects and pieces of a plane with computer-generated elements. The scenographic rain led to the usage of a new gel for the flames so the fire would not be put out, and semi-permanent make-up to make them last the long shooting hours.[5] The solar flare destruction sequence is set in New York City, showing notable landmarks such as the Metlife Building, Times Square and the Empire State Building being obliterated as the flare spreads across the Earth\'s surface, destroying everything in its path.[16]

Proyas used a Red One 4K digital camera. He sought to capture a gritty and realistic look to the film, and his approach involved a continuous two-minute scene in which Cage\'s character sees a plane crash and attempts to rescue passengers. The scene was an arduous task, taking two days to set up and two days to shoot. Proyas explained the goal, \"I did that specifically to not let the artifice of visual effects and all the cuts and stuff we can do, get in the way of the emotion of the scene.\"[17]

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 10:32:28 PM UTC+11, a a wrote:

On Tuesday, 24 January 2023 at 07:49:30 UTC+1, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
a a <mant...@gmail.com> wrote in news:7f6f1ecb-a0aa-41ac-8097- 22e2b3...@googlegroups.com:

<snipped lots of detail about a film that nobody sane would bother watching. posted to a group that is interested in electronic design, rather than crummy films>

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 11:10:47 PM UTC+11, a a wrote:

On Tuesday, 24 January 2023 at 12:32:28 UTC+1, a a wrote:
On Tuesday, 24 January 2023 at 07:49:30 UTC+1, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
a a <mant...@gmail.com> wrote in news:7f6f1ecb-a0aa-41ac-8097- 22e2b3...@googlegroups.com:

<snipped even more detail about a crummy film that isn\'t remotely interesting to this group>

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

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ask
#SydneyZoo to never post the same twice

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15:18 (6 hours ago)
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On Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 10:32:28 PM UTC+11, a a wrote:

On Tuesday, 24 January 2023 at 07:49:30 UTC+1, DecadentLinux...@decadence..org wrote:
a a <mant...@gmail.com> wrote in news:7f6f1ecb-a0aa-41ac-8097- 22e2b3...@googlegroups.com:

---<snipped lots of detail about a film that nobody sane would bother watching. posted to a group that is interested in electronic design, rather than crummy films>

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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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bill....@ieee.org
15:20 (6 hours ago)
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On Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 11:10:47 PM UTC+11, a a wrote:

On Tuesday, 24 January 2023 at 12:32:28 UTC+1, a a wrote:
On Tuesday, 24 January 2023 at 07:49:30 UTC+1, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
a a <mant...@gmail.com> wrote in news:7f6f1ecb-a0aa-41ac-8097- 22e2b3....@googlegroups.com:

---<snipped even more detail about a crummy film that isn\'t remotely interesting to this group>

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 6:53:59 AM UTC+11, a a wrote:

ask
#SydneyZoo to never post the same twice

<snip>

A a had just posted much the same response twice - they weren\'t remotely identical, but the content was equally off the wall - and I was merely highlighting his inanity.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

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On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 03:49:48 UTC+1, bill....@ieee.org wrote:
ask @ieee.or and @SydneyZOO not to follow my threads with spam

 

[Lamont Cranston]

On Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 10:50:13 AM UTC-6, a a wrote:

On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 03:49:48 UTC+1, bill....@ieee.org wrote:
ask @ieee.or and @SydneyZOO not to follow my threads with spam

Wait, I thought your posts were spam!

Mikek

 

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Coronal Mass Ejections on the Sun are more about electronics.design than you think
Read about space weather one day.

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Thursday, January 26, 2023 at 3:50:13 AM UTC+11, a a wrote:

On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 03:49:48 UTC+1, bill....@ieee.org wrote:
ask @ieee.or and @SydneyZOO not to follow my threads with spam

A a\'s thread are all spam. He is promoting his own interests rather than offering anything that might be interesting to sci.electronics.design.

The fact that his post don\'t start threads is the give-away. He does get follow-up posts pointing out that he is posting nonsense, but that doesn\'t make his posts any kind of contribution to the group.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Thursday, January 26, 2023 at 9:36:00 AM UTC+11, a a wrote:

Coronal Mass Ejections on the Sun are more about electronics.design than you think
Read about space weather one day.

The magnetic storms on the surface of the sun might be seen as having something to do with electronics, but not the kind of electronics that anybody here designs.
A a is a demented idiot, of the kind that walks along the street shooting nonsense at other people.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney