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Title: THE SUN HAS GONE COMPLETELY BLANK
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on June 04, 2016, 2344 UTC
Overview:
The sun has gone completely blank.  There are currently no visible sunspots – a sure sign of an approaching solar minimum - and this is the first spotless day on the sun since 2014.  In fact, there has been only one spotless day on the sun since 2011 – until today that is.  The current solar cycle is the 24th since 1755 when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. Solar cycle number 24 is the weakest solar cycle in more than a century with the fewest sunspots since cycle 14 peaked in February 1906. 

Full article: http://www.vencoreweather.com/blog/2016/6/4/300-pm-the-sun-has-gone-completely-blank
Title: Re: THE SUN HAS GONE COMPLETELY BLANK
Post by: Pigmeat on June 05, 2016, 0231 UTC
Must be the result of that hole Al shot through it.
Title: Re: THE SUN HAS GONE COMPLETELY BLANK
Post by: Fansome on June 05, 2016, 0544 UTC
My GF, who, of course, is just  a girl, keeps telling me that I am "pink". I don't really understand what that means, but I assume that it is complimentary.

Regardless, perhaps the sun has moved into a "pink" phase. This is probably a good thing.
Title: Re: THE SUN HAS GONE COMPLETELY BLANK
Post by: Pigmeat on June 05, 2016, 0703 UTC
It probably has to do with your rosy complexion. Girls are weird like that.

Did I ever tell you about my old friend Norm Appleton? He had his image swiped by a fella by the name of Stang a few decades ago. Stang used it for years to promote some weirdo Hippy UFO dope cult. Stang's face sure was pink when he left court with that cease and desist order. Schtick stealing of the worst kind. You haven't been doing any schtick stealing lately have you? That'll turn you pinker than Little Richards Bentley.
Title: Re: THE SUN HAS GONE COMPLETELY BLANK
Post by: skeezix on June 06, 2016, 0129 UTC
In the TV series "Defiance", the aliens referred to humans like that.

Sounds like your GF is an alien and slipped up referring to you.

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Title: Re: THE SUN HAS GONE COMPLETELY BLANK
Post by: Pigmeat on June 06, 2016, 0202 UTC
That explains him making the point of "a real girl". Before this Al's girlfriends were mostly inflatable or stuffed. This one is probably an alien-penguin-human clone sent to keep an eye on him.

BTW, did you know Chuck Norris has a partially penguin-alien genome. The alien genes make him calm and analytical while the penguin genes make him a deadly fighting machine.

Al better be careful.
Title: Re: THE SUN HAS GONE COMPLETELY BLANK
Post by: Chanter on June 06, 2016, 1047 UTC
What's this 'just a girl' rubbish, now?  :) 
Title: Re: THE SUN HAS GONE COMPLETELY BLANK
Post by: SHORTY on June 07, 2016, 0133 UTC
Is it safe to take off my foil hat?
Title: Re: THE SUN HAS GONE COMPLETELY BLANK
Post by: John Poet on June 07, 2016, 0226 UTC
You're ALL about as friggin Off-Topic as you can get!!

MUF isn't even making it to 5 MHz tonight in Michigan....

Title: Re: THE SUN HAS GONE COMPLETELY BLANK
Post by: MDK2 on June 07, 2016, 0247 UTC
Foil hats are off topic? But it's summer, and I need to know what the current foil stylings are. Can't let another faux pax happen again, like that time I stole some of the gold leaf foil that covers the Colorado state capitol dome here in town and fashioned a baseball cap, only to find that it was fedora season. My mustache also wasn't as curly as some of the others. You bet I went home alone that night.

Anyway, I think the sun looks better without spots. It's emerging from adolescence at last.
Title: Re: THE SUN HAS GONE COMPLETELY BLANK
Post by: Pigmeat on June 07, 2016, 0320 UTC
It's the zinc oxide Al coats his projectiles in.
Title: Re: THE SUN HAS GONE COMPLETELY BLANK
Post by: Kage on June 07, 2016, 2122 UTC
What's going on in this thread? Where am I?
Title: Re: THE SUN HAS GONE COMPLETELY BLANK
Post by: John Poet on June 07, 2016, 2301 UTC
What's this 'just a girl' rubbish, now?  :) 


And they still wonder why they couldn't get a prom date...

Title: Re: THE SUN HAS GONE COMPLETELY BLANK
Post by: Pigmeat on June 09, 2016, 0617 UTC
Hey! I had a prom date. I just wish I hadn't. She threw up all over my car. It smelled like cheap tequila for weeks after that. Any of my male friends would have had the decency to roll down the window to hurl out of the car.

Mother's didn't teach their daughters proper underage drinking etiquette in those days as they do now. Plus, all new cars now have electronic windows to make such events a thing of the past. Projectile vomiting girlfriends are factored in to the design process these days.
Title: Re: THE SUN HAS GONE COMPLETELY BLANK
Post by: Skipmuck on June 09, 2016, 2333 UTC
:)THERE'S A LITTLE BLACK SPOT ON THE SUN TODAY 8)
Title: Re: THE SUN HAS GONE COMPLETELY BLANK
Post by: ka1iic on June 11, 2016, 1816 UTC
THERE'S A LITTLE BLACK SPOT ON THE SUN TODAY
Everything burn go rip and tear 
End times coming via Brother Stair
Time for a change in underwear

I'll burn to a crisp but I don't care
going to Hell because I swear
But I'll go with a great big pair
Suns gonna burn off all my hair...

etc etc etc

Sorry guys... I'm in one of those moods...  All Hail Bob... prepare for X-day!!!



 


Title: Re: THE SUN HAS GONE COMPLETELY BLANK
Post by: MDK2 on June 24, 2016, 1421 UTC
And now it's zero again.
Title: Re: THE SUN HAS GONE COMPLETELY BLANK
Post by: Pigmeat on June 29, 2016, 1125 UTC
There is some speculation that the Sun has entered a new phase in it's life cycle, with sunspots becoming a relative thing of past in it's future.
Title: Re: THE SUN HAS GONE COMPLETELY BLANK
Post by: MDK2 on June 29, 2016, 1359 UTC
There is some speculation that the Sun has entered a new phase in it's life cycle, with sunspots becoming a relative thing of past in it's future.

I read that. The sun is entering middle age. I told ya it was finally growing out of adolescence.