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From the beginnings of history and literature, human beings have also invoked the sun. In rejecting peace offers from Darius before the battle of Gaugamela, Alexander the Great explained, "Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters." And in 1911, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, speaking of his nation, declared, "No one can dispute with us the place in the sun that...
...first sunspots of a cycle break out around 35 degrees latitude -- then slowly progresses toward the equator. The brightening, he suspects, marks the beginning of still another cycle, long before the current one has expired. With that much overlap, he says, "our feeling is that the ((dynamo)) model cannot be correct...
These sound waves, or seismic waves, cannot travel in space because there is no air or other medium to carry them. So when the waves reach the surface of the sun from below, they bounce back into the interior, where the greater heat bends them toward the surface again. The result, says astronomer Robert Noyes of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is a "sun ringing like a bell, but not one that is being struck by a clapper. Rather, it is vibrating somewhat like a bell suspended in a sandstorm, continuously struck by tiny grains of sand...
While scientists cannot monitor these waves directly, they can see the effects on the solar surface. "On reaching the surface," explains Juri Toomre, an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado, "the waves cause the gases there to move up and down" -- oscillations that astronomers can measure. To date, they have discovered millions of different oscillations, up- and-down motions with cycles ranging from 2 1/2 to 13 minutes. Some are caused by seismic waves confined to a zigzag path near the surface, others by waves that plunge as far as four-fifths the distance to the solar center before being...
...your left-turn signal on at all times. Then there are people who feel it's important to buy the largest possible car, the kind you can land aircraft on top of with no problem, and they drive them incredibly slowly. At the same time, there are people who cannot imagine going less than 70 m.p.h., including in their driveways. Then the politics here is amazing. I mean, we have rallies here for the right to sacrifice chickens...