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Here’s the link if you wanna look at it. It was about the massive discharge of highly-energized particles that the Sun threw out at the Earth early last week. As a result there were some astonishingly brilliant aurora reported at the northern latitudes.

Well anyway, in my post I wondered aloud if there might be any earthquake activity that would happen as a result, ‘cuz I’ve noticing for the past few years that whenever this planet gets hit by particles from a solar flare that it seems to agitate the inner workins enough to cause pretty good rumblin’ soon afterward.

I wrote that last Monday, August 2nd. Today, August 12th, there have been two earthquakes reported in the past several hours. A 6.0 quake hitting the island nation of Vanuatu and then a short while ago a 6.9 quake striking just over a hundred miles away from Quito in ...

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I may get called a “kook” from some quarters for writing about this. All I can really say in my own defense is that it’s something I’m sincerely curious about and I was told a long time ago that the only wrong question to ask is one that isn’t asked at all…

Slashdot is spreading the news this afternoon about a massive ejection of high-energy particles from the the sun. It’s headed toward Earth and should reach us sometime tomorrow. Among other things it means that we should be enjoying some lovely aurora, if you’re fortunate to live at a high-enough latitude.

Awright well, here’s the thing: I’ve noticed in the past several years that most every time we get hit by a solar flare, that there’s usually a massive earthquake that happens not very long afterward.

Considering that the inside of the Earth is a molten piezoelectric dynamo ...

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10:17 PM EST: In this first act we have learned two things. One is that some people die on this island. The other is that some people don’t stay dead on this island.

10:26 PM EST: Jin knows kung-fu. So far, good episode.

10:40 PM EST: Well, now we know where all that stuff went to when the ladies visited The Staff, right?

10:51 PM EST: This last act epitomizes everything that makes Lost the best show on television right now, and perhaps one of the best ever. So much mixture of joy and grief in just the last two minutes of it… wow.

It was enough to make me momentarily forget about the “five times” thing: holy crap!!

11:01 PM EST: The whole episode, especially the last five minutes, is best summed up by the very last thing said in the episode, by Hurley:

“What?”
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