The Sun That Did Not Roar

[ChrisSmolinski]

This is the height of the 11-year solar cycle, the so-called solar maximum. The face of the Sun should be pockmarked with sunspots, and cataclysmic explosions of X-rays and particles should be whizzing off every which way.

Instead, the Sun has been tranquil, almost spotless.  As W. Dean Pesnell, the project scientist for NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, dryly noted, “We’re not having much of a solar maximum.” 

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Cycle 14 in the early 1900s was similarly quiet. (The Cubs won the 1908 World Series, about a year after the maximum of that solar cycle.)

Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/science/space/the-sun-that-did-not-roar.html?_r=0

[cmradio]

Maybe the sun had stocks in Blackberry

Peace!

[jFarley]

Cycle 14 in the early 1900s was similarly quiet. (The Cubs won the 1908 World Series, about a year after the maximum of that solar cycle.)

Thank you for providing a firm scientific explanation for the Lovable Losers' Pathetic Playoff Performance.  I never did believe that old Billy Goat story.

[skeezix]

Perhaps like the Cubs, this explains why the MN Twins are doing so poorly right now.