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After a Tense Delay, NASA's GOES-15 Solar X-Ray Imager Sends Back First Pics

Posted June 15, 2010 1:33 PM

From Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now:

After a good deal of hand-wringing and breath-holding, NASA engineers have finally brought the Solar X-Ray Imager (SXI) on the GOES-15 satellite (formerly called GOES-P) online, to return its first detailed images of the sun to Earth.

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Re: After a Tense Delay, NASA's GOES-15 Solar X-Ray Imager Sends Back First Pics

06/16/2010 2:29 AM

There GOES 15 reasons for the global warming theory.

It seems amazing that a few images of the sun in 4D could reveal that it will go wild in 2013.

I grew up in an arid part of an arid country and was painfully aware of the influence and power of the sun and the approximate 11 year cycle of dry / wet years, If I am not mistaken we should (and are in regions) be in a dry spell at the moment and at least up to part of 2014.

I think we all know (and knew for a long time) that something will goes bringing the current favourable situation to an end, and maybe 2013 is correct,

The big loss in crude oil at the Gulf and the damage to the environment will leave US with less energy and food to resist.

Can our science and limited understanding save us from this looming ordeal?

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