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“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. ZYOUR RECENT COMMENTS
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- 19 April 2005: Benedict XVI elected
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- Wherein Fr. Z rants about the Church as “field hospital”. Brutal horror, heroic wonder.
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- “O my God, make them like a wheel; * and as stubble before the wind.” Consolation from a Psalm.
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Tag Archives: aurora borealis
8 November: Election Day, Solar Plasma Cloud To Strike Earth
At SpaceWeather:
SUN HURLS PLASMA CLOUD TOWARD EARTH: Yesterday, Nov. 5th, a magnetic filament on the sun became unstable and erupted. The blast opened a fiery canyon in the sun’s atmosphere and hurled a CME toward Earth. According to NOAA models, … Continue reading
“Admire the beauty but fear the beast.”
What’s your nightmare?
From APOD:
Explanation: Admire the beauty but fear the beast. The beauty is the aurora overhead, here taking the form of great green spiral, seen between picturesque clouds with the bright Moon to the side and stars in the … Continue reading
Rads on a Plane! Holes in the Sun! Flares!
Not for Rad Trads, unless you are also frequent flyers…
From Spaceweather…
RADS ON A PLANE: Regular readers know that Spaceweather.com and the students of Earth to Sky Calculus regularly fly balloons to the stratosphere to measure cosmic rays. For the past … Continue reading
Aurora Alert!
But wait! There’s more… from my email…
GEOMAGNETIC STORM: A stream of solar wind hit Earth’s magnetic field on Sept. 11th, sparking one of the strongest geomagnetic storms of the year and auroras in multiple US states. This continues a trend … Continue reading
AURORA ALERT! Events of terrible beauty, presaging we know not what.
Since Sunday a series of Earth-directed CME’s have created Aurora Borealis visible as far South in these USA as, I hear, Arkansas! I know I will go out to look.
Tonight, get out there if you have good viewing conditions, and look … Continue reading
20 March: Total Eclipse of the Sun AND Aurora Borealis
From SpaceWeather:
ARCTIC ECLIPSE: On March 20th, the first day of northern spring, Arctic sky watchers could witness something rare and wonderful: Northern Lights during a total eclipse of the sun. Earth’s magnetic field is reverberating from a CME strike on … Continue reading
CME IMPACT, SEVERE GEOMAGNETIC STORM
A headline that makes my blood run cold, even as one can marvel at the sights in the heavens.
From SpaceWeather:
CME IMPACT, SEVERE GEOMAGNETIC STORM: Arriving earlier than expected, a CME [Coronal Mass Ejection] hit Earth’s magnetic field on March 17th at … Continue reading
VIDEO Aurora: just… wow
I have been watching the news a lot over the last couple days. Given my mood, I can imagine also yours.
Here’s something very cool as a change of pace.
Real time – not time-lapse – video of aurora borealis.
Meanwhile, as I … Continue reading
Events of terrible beauty
One of these days, there will be another Carrington Event.
There will be a huge coronal mass ejection from your planet’s yellow star that strikes your planet square on. The result will be a vast electromagnetic pulse which fries almost all … Continue reading
Murder mystery space time continuum ham baseball fire fighter movie
Last night I watched a movie I hadn’t seen in years. I had a couple of good actors and used plot devices that I am into.
The movie: Frequency (2000)
Starring: Denis Quaid and James Caviezel
Device: Aurora Borealis and Ham Radio
Oh yes, … Continue reading