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Solar Wind Loses Power, Hits 50-year Low

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http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/23sep_solarwind.htm

Sept. 23, 2008: In a briefing today at NASA headquarters, solar physicists announced that the solar wind is losing power.

"The average pressure of the solar wind has dropped more than 20% since the mid-1990s," says Dave McComas of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. "This is the weakest it's been since we began monitoring solar wind almost 50 years ago."
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Well, if the politicians doesn't decide over global warming lets dim down the Sun a little then.
 
So it is slowing down!

For just about the past year, my SOHO widgets for wind speed and dynamic pressure always read near flat-line - I thought that they had broken. Or that the sights supplying the data feeds had gown down or moved.

I feel better now. :eek:
 
FINALLY: some environmental change we didn't cause, so don't need to feel guilty about.

Now, those pesky solar winds will no longer interfere with my plan to burn a hole through the moon with 50,000 laser levels.

Mwo-hah-hah-haaa!

(Not a Death Ray, or an Ice Beam, that's so Johnny Snow..)
 
I find it really difficult to draw any kind of conclusions from this.

The sun has been burning for how many billions of years? And is expected to continue burning for another how many billions of years?

And here we're worried, and drawing conclusions, about some fluctuations over a period of less than 50 years... That's a tiny tiny blip in the grand scheme of things.
 
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