<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435</id><updated>2009-12-25T04:56:05.925-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Circle of the Oroborous</title><subtitle type='html'>Freedom-Accept no substitute.It's all about survival...Day to day or natural disasters.
It seems no-one is posting how to do it on the cheap.
Permaculture anyone? Sustainability,
Breaking free of the destructive cycle.
Beginning a new cycle.How do you thrive?
Now raising blood pressure across the prepper community.
There is no alternative to LIBERTY.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default?orderby=updated'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;orderby=updated'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>407</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-5959260395943660200</id><published>2009-12-22T16:43:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-22T16:48:26.306-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Solar Activity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Solstice'/><title type='text'>12-22-2009 1:06 am</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/images2009/22dec09/eit284.jpg?PHPSESSID=ifblod3klj30o5c31svpkmnig7" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.spaceweather.com/images2009/22dec09/eit284.jpg?PHPSESSID=ifblod3klj30o5c31svpkmnig7" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/"&gt;Spaceweather&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;This what I've been talking about.&lt;br /&gt;Solar cycle 24 ramps up and gets way active.&lt;br /&gt;It remains to be seen if this level of activity will continue.&lt;br /&gt;That it did so right after solstice I find amusing.&lt;br /&gt;There are those tha believe as do I that this is a good omen.&lt;br /&gt;Solar cycle 24 while quiet has spots with an activity level&lt;br /&gt;that have to be seen to be believed. I expect lots of CME,&lt;br /&gt;Prominence and flare activity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_RjswBx6ysQ&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_RjswBx6ysQ&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RjswBx6ysQ"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RjswBx6ysQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/q7zdlcHCshc&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/q7zdlcHCshc&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7zdlcHCshc"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7zdlcHCshc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-5959260395943660200?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/5959260395943660200/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=5959260395943660200&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/5959260395943660200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/5959260395943660200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/12/12-22-2009-106-am.html' title='12-22-2009 1:06 am'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-8585168118875310149</id><published>2009-12-21T18:51:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-21T18:54:45.145-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MOTD'/><title type='text'>Shades of Babylon</title><content type='html'>"Except in the United States, where it became a very contentious talking point, the US still holding firmly to the 18th-century idea that power should lie with the will of the people."&lt;br /&gt;Yep, I'll hold on to that out modded notion of individual sovereignty and freedom. One must ask why they need the US so badly. Could it be they want our soil and space to grow the food to feed the future starving masses of europe?&lt;br /&gt;I for one don't need europe. Really, if it were so great why did all those europeons move here?&lt;br /&gt;Climate change is now being felt for real in europe. Cooling, not warming.&lt;br /&gt;It's the first taste of the new normal. &lt;b&gt;Mini-Ice Age&lt;/b&gt;. Welcome to the desert of the real. Don't look to the US to pull your fat from the fire this time. Twice in the last Hundred years was enough. Wave your fists in another direction. You bought in to the show, Now sit back and enjoy. We are not beholden to you, However, You are beholden to us&lt;br /&gt;A bunch of fools educated way beyond their intelligence have climbed a tower and railed at the uncaring&amp;nbsp; sky. Screaming at the top of their lungs, "We are the pinnacle of creation. We are the pinnacle of evolution. Look what we have wrought."&lt;br /&gt;Face it what you have wrought is the seeds of your own destruction. You have sown the wind, Now reap the whirlwind. Your greed and lust for power have brought you to the door step of destruction yet again. You ask me to care. WHY?&lt;br /&gt;The game my friends is not hardly begun in earnest.&lt;br /&gt;When You extrapolate the noises coming out of "DC", Patterns begin to emerge.&lt;br /&gt;My interpretation of those patterns, say be prepared. When I factor in all the the data from the ongoing solar cycles and changing weather patterns. I say be prepared. What will be, will be. Having prepped as well as I can, I'll sleep better. Enjoy the Holidays, Dragon&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-8585168118875310149?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/8585168118875310149/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=8585168118875310149&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/8585168118875310149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/8585168118875310149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/12/shades-of-babylon.html' title='Shades of Babylon'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-2658997094410766323</id><published>2009-12-21T01:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-21T01:53:52.389-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yule'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Solar Activity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Solstice'/><title type='text'>Winter Solstice</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/submissions/pics/s/Simon-Banton-100_2147_1261354530.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://spaceweather.com/submissions/pics/s/Simon-Banton-100_2147_1261354530.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;From over at &lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Simon-Banton-100_2147_1261354530.jpg"&gt;Spaceweather&lt;/a&gt; of course.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;More images linked &lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Pete-Glastonbury-IYA2009StonehengeSunset_1261259166.jpg"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Grant-Privett-P1050403-1-small_1261314656.jpg"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/december-solstice.html"&gt;December 21 is a Solstice Day in 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;The December solstice will occur at 17:47 (or 5.47pm) Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on December 21, 2009. It is also known as the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere and the summer solstice in the southern hemisphere due to the seasonal differences. Its date varies from December 20 to December 23 depending on the year in the Gregorian calendar. &lt;br /&gt;To find the December solstice date in other time zones or other years, please use the &lt;a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/seasons.html"&gt;Seasons Calculator&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/"&gt;http://spaceweather.com/&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Has some more items of interest.&lt;br /&gt;Such as 3 sunspots showing from cycle 24.&lt;br /&gt;They should as active as the others that preceded them.&lt;br /&gt;You might just want to bookmark that site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll sign off with a wish to you and yours to have a happy Yule tide season.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-2658997094410766323?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/2658997094410766323/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=2658997094410766323&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/2658997094410766323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/2658997094410766323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/12/winter-solstice.html' title='Winter Solstice'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-1339801786358295171</id><published>2009-12-18T03:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-18T03:48:08.118-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Astronomy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Things that make ya go Hmmm.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Space Weather Alerts'/><title type='text'>Watching the Skies 2:</title><content type='html'>Curious event in Nebraska. Via SpaceWeather.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Nebraska                Fireball: Dec. 16, 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Readers, if you witnessed or photographed this event,                please &lt;a href="mailto:webmaster@spaceweather.com"&gt;submit a report&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary:&lt;/strong&gt;                The nature of this event is uncertain--indeed, it might be more                than one event. Around 9 pm on Dec. 16th, sky watchers in southeast                Nebraska saw a brilliant fireball streak across the sky. It was                so bright that observers with overcast skies saw it shining through                clouds. Telephones in news stations and police departments rang                with reports of bright lights, loud sounds, and ground shaking.                Minutes earlier, around 8:53 pm CST, the USGS says there was a magnitude                3.5 earthquake in southeastern Nebraska:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img height="300" src="http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2009/17dec09/neic_qhaf_cy.gif.jpg" width="406" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;                Earthquakes in Nebraska are rare, so what are the odds of one happening                within minutes of a meteoritic fireball? This might be a cosmic                coincidence. Or there could be some yet-to-be-explained linkage                between the events. Readers with photos or eyewitness reports are                invited to submit them &lt;a href="mailto:webmaster@spaceweather.com"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eyewitness                Accounts:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; (&lt;a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/glossary/fireballreports_16dec09.htm?PHPSESSID=hnurmunq3kprfirq867gs5psk6"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Links via SpaceWeather. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/glossary/fireballreports_16dec09.htm?PHPSESSID=mdcd9nor9ocpksi6f9s3vjado2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Eyewitness                      Fireball-Quake Reports&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr width="85%" /&gt;                   &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/meteors/gallery_13dec09_page6.htm?PHPSESSID=mdcd9nor9ocpksi6f9s3vjado2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;2009                      Geminid Meteor Gallery&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/images/geminids2009/skymap_north.gif"&gt;sky                      map&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href="http://spaceweatherradio.com/"&gt;meteor radar&lt;/a&gt;]                      [&lt;a href="http://www.imo.net/live/geminids2009/"&gt;Geminid counts&lt;/a&gt;]                      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr width="85%" /&gt;                   &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_01dec09.htm?PHPSESSID=mdcd9nor9ocpksi6f9s3vjado2"&gt;December                      Northern Lights Gallery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[&lt;strong&gt;previous Decembers:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_01dec08_page2.htm?PHPSESSID=mdcd9nor9ocpksi6f9s3vjado2"&gt;2008&lt;/a&gt;,                      &lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_01dec07.htm?PHPSESSID=mdcd9nor9ocpksi6f9s3vjado2"&gt;2007&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_01dec06_page8.htm?PHPSESSID=mdcd9nor9ocpksi6f9s3vjado2"&gt;2006&lt;/a&gt;,                      &lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_01dec05.htm?PHPSESSID=mdcd9nor9ocpksi6f9s3vjado2"&gt;2005&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_24dec01.html?PHPSESSID=mdcd9nor9ocpksi6f9s3vjado2"&gt;2001&lt;/a&gt;,                      &lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_23dec00.html?PHPSESSID=mdcd9nor9ocpksi6f9s3vjado2"&gt;2000&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr width="85%" /&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/glossary/sunspotplotter.htm?PHPSESSID=mdcd9nor9ocpksi6f9s3vjado2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Explore                      the Sunspot Cycle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;To tell ya the truth, I don't know what to make of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-1339801786358295171?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/1339801786358295171/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=1339801786358295171&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/1339801786358295171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/1339801786358295171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/12/watching-skies-2.html' title='Watching the Skies 2:'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-4425558525930179498</id><published>2009-12-16T18:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-16T18:20:08.294-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Solar Activity'/><title type='text'>Watching the skies.</title><content type='html'>Some of you readers have a good handle&lt;br /&gt;on where I have been going with this.&lt;br /&gt;The "Big Show" for the next decade is the&lt;br /&gt;one going on above our heads.&lt;br /&gt;Today's Report from &lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/"&gt;Spaceweather.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;may serve to illustrate this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the Space Weather Site:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INCOMING CME: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;                      This morning at 0120 UT, an eruption of magnetic fields around                      sunspot 1035 produced a long-duration &lt;a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/glossary/flareclasses.html?PHPSESSID=hlu9qt1ts3mqlh4hmgd553ldo3"&gt;C4-class&lt;/a&gt;                      solar flare and hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) in the                      general direction of Earth. High-latitude sky watchers should                      &lt;a href="http://spaceweatherphone.com/"&gt;prepare&lt;/a&gt; for auroras                      when the CME arrives on or about Dec. 18th. &lt;strong&gt;STEREO                      movies:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/images2009/16dec09/stereoa_euvi195_flare.gif?PHPSESSID=hlu9qt1ts3mqlh4hmgd553ldo3"&gt;solar                      flare&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/images2009/16dec09/stereoa_cor2_cme.gif?PHPSESSID=hlu9qt1ts3mqlh4hmgd553ldo3"&gt;CME&lt;/a&gt;.                    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BIG NEW SUNSPOT: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;                      New sunspot 1035 is &lt;a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/images2009/15dec09/1035_anim2.gif?PHPSESSID=hlu9qt1ts3mqlh4hmgd553ldo3"&gt;growing                      rapidly&lt;/a&gt; and it is now seven times wider than Earth. This                      makes it an easy target for backyard solar telescopes. Yesterday,                      Rogerio Marcon of Campinas, Brazil, photographed a maelstrom                      of hot plasma and magnetic filaments connecting the sunspot's                      dark cores:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2009/16dec09/Rogerio-Marcon1.jpg?PHPSESSID=hlu9qt1ts3mqlh4hmgd553ldo3"&gt;&lt;img border="1" height="257" src="http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2009/16dec09/Rogerio-Marcon1_strip.jpg" width="360" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;"Solar activity is picking up," he says. &lt;br /&gt;The magnetic polarity of the spot identifies it as a member                      of Solar Cycle 24--the cycle we've been waiting for to end                      the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century. One spot isn't                      enough to end the lull, but sunspot 1035 could herald bigger                      things to come. &lt;a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/xtra/results_solar_telescopes.php?searchTerm=personal%20solar%20telescope"&gt;Stay                      tuned&lt;/a&gt; for updates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reader may wish to follow what is happening up there, if only for curiosities sake. I for one have always consider the acts of Nature or God to require a higher level of interest than those of man by those of the prepper mindset.&lt;br /&gt;Later, Dragon&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-4425558525930179498?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/4425558525930179498/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=4425558525930179498&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/4425558525930179498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/4425558525930179498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/12/watching-skies.html' title='Watching the skies.'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-8549638766578972376</id><published>2009-12-15T16:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-15T16:48:30.949-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A few words.</title><content type='html'>I know I've been quiet lately, but I haven't&lt;br /&gt;been motivated to write for some time.&lt;br /&gt;Looking back over the posts of the past year last night,&lt;br /&gt;I was surprised to see how much I got right or nearly so.&lt;br /&gt;As the yuletide approaches and our days begin to lengthen,&lt;br /&gt;I want to wish each and everyone of you godspeed.&lt;br /&gt;I hope you are all well with a good stack of firewood,&lt;br /&gt;plenty of food and niceties. &lt;br /&gt;I have asked Santa to bring me a deuce this year or a&lt;br /&gt;winning cash five ticket, but so far he hasn't cooperated.&lt;br /&gt;This past year has been sheer and utter Hell.&lt;br /&gt;The Jeep is dead until I get it resurrected this spring.&lt;br /&gt;And the economy has been so bad that I have been living&lt;br /&gt;off the preps I put away. But I have been living and&lt;br /&gt;that is a positive sign. Jobs are way hard to come by and&lt;br /&gt;No-one pays reasonable wages anymore. I'm expecting&lt;br /&gt;further slides early this spring so plan those gardens and&lt;br /&gt;plan well. The Times we prepared for are almost upon us.&lt;br /&gt;Ya'll know the drill, Stay the course and May I see each&lt;br /&gt;and everyone one the other side. Dragon out.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-8549638766578972376?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/8549638766578972376/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=8549638766578972376&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/8549638766578972376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/8549638766578972376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/12/few-words.html' title='A few words.'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-6581123766865255053</id><published>2009-12-07T09:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T09:11:05.036-05:00</updated><title type='text'>No You Won't</title><content type='html'>No You Will Not.&lt;br /&gt;Period.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;                 &lt;span class="UIIntentionalStory_Names" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;name&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000038330084&amp;amp;ref=mf" onclick="ft(&amp;quot;4:9:17:100000038330084::::0::::192398324079&amp;quot;);"&gt;Elder Dragon&lt;/a&gt;                 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="UIStory_Message"&gt;I sure as hell hope this proves untrue.&lt;br /&gt;I remember a quote from and old Gal at a civil War re-enactment some years ago....&lt;br /&gt;We do this not to glorify war. &lt;br /&gt;For there is no glory in war. &lt;br /&gt;But instead to remember those who fought and died, &lt;br /&gt;Their sacrifice which was made to keep us all free.&lt;br /&gt;Not an exact quote, but  something along those lines.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eutimes.net/2009/11/obama-orders-1-million-us-troops-to-prepare-for-civil-war/" rel="bookmark" title="Obama Orders 1 Million US Troops to Prepare for Civil War"&gt;Obama Orders 1 Million US Troops to Prepare for Civil War&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="postmeta"&gt;Posted by       &lt;a href="http://www.eutimes.net/author/admin/" title="Posts by Europe"&gt;Europe&lt;/a&gt;      on       Nov 28, 2009      |       &lt;a href="http://www.eutimes.net/2009/11/obama-orders-1-million-us-troops-to-prepare-for-civil-war/#comments" title="Comment on Obama Orders 1 Million US Troops to Prepare for Civil War"&gt;178 Comments&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- BEGIN ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) --&gt;   &lt;script language="javascript" src="http://widget.odiogo.com/odiogo_js.php?feed_id=378273&amp;amp;platform=wp&amp;amp;version=2.5.7" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;      &lt;!-- END ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) --&gt;   &lt;!-- BEGIN ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) --&gt;   &lt;script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"&gt;  &lt;!--  // ODIOGO_START:do_NOT_remove_this_comment  showOdiogoReadNowButton ("378273", "Obama Orders 1 Million US Troops to Prepare for Civil War", "3984", 290, 55);  // --&gt;  &lt;/script&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:showOdiogoReadNowFrame%20('378273',%20'obama%20orders%201%20million%20us%20troops%20to%20prepare%20for%20civil%20war',%20'3984',%20290,%2055);"&gt;&lt;img alt="Listen to this article. 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Powered by Odiogo.com" width="77" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"&gt;  &lt;!--  showInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame ("378273", "3984", 290, 0);  // ODIOGO_END:do_NOT_remove_this_comment  // --&gt;  &lt;/script&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="0" id="iframe_odiogo_3984" name="iframe_odiogo_3984" scrolling="no" src="http://www.eutimes.net/2009/11/obama-orders-1-million-us-troops-to-prepare-for-civil-war/" width="290"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;   &lt;!-- END ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) --&gt;    Russian Military Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin that US President Barack Obama has issued orders to his Northern Command’s (USNORTHCOM) top leader, US Air Force General Gene Renuart, to “begin immediately” increasing his military forces to 1 million troops by January 30, 2010, in what these reports warn is an expected outbreak of civil war within the United States before the end of winter.&lt;br /&gt;According to these reports, Obama has had over these past weeks “numerous” meetings with his war council about how best to manage the expected implosion of his Nations banking system while at the same time attempting to keep the United States military hegemony over the World in what Russian Military Analysts state is a “last ditch gambit” whose success is “far from certain”. (&lt;a href="http://www.eutimes.net/2009/11/obama-orders-1-million-us-troops-to-prepare-for-civil-war/"&gt;More&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You power mad fools in washington had better not go that route.&lt;br /&gt;Ye'll come to a bad end.&lt;br /&gt;My advice to the reader is to protect and survive.&lt;br /&gt;Let the fools fire the first shot. Allow them to show their true colors.&lt;br /&gt;Then and only then do we &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;allow&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; them to dance the hang mans jig at the end of a hemp necktie.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-6581123766865255053?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/6581123766865255053/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=6581123766865255053&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/6581123766865255053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/6581123766865255053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/12/no-you-wont.html' title='No You Won&apos;t'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-84731815529299254</id><published>2009-12-04T16:46:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-04T17:22:50.190-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Climaquiddick?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ryOGm_ca7B8/SxmLreGO2-I/AAAAAAAAAR4/XI5Ysj9hWvo/s1600-h/gorewrong1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ryOGm_ca7B8/SxmLreGO2-I/AAAAAAAAAR4/XI5Ysj9hWvo/s320/gorewrong1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;I'm no denier when it comes to climate change. I have been saying that the "warming" folks were wrong from the getgo. I'm not against being green. Matter of fact, I'm all for green solutions. We will all be better off if some of the better green ideas catch on. Garden and compost, even take some off your appliances off the grid. Maybe even apply the Hunnert Mile rule to foods you purchase and consume.  Where's the bad in that? Won't You or I be better off?&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;If You are just now waking up to the fact that you are being lied to. Good Morning! But, don't be throwing the green baby out with the rubbish. And don't allow those fools to make Carbon laws or taxes.&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;I got todays title from a post &lt;a href="http://rightc0ast.livejournal.com/169543.html"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="entryinfo"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://rightc0ast.livejournal.com/profile"&gt;&lt;img alt="[info]" class="ContextualPopup" height="17" src="http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif" style="border: 0pt none; padding-right: 1px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="17" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://rightc0ast.livejournal.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;rightc0ast&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;         &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="entryinfo"&gt;12/3/09 04:42 pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="entrylinks"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;                                          &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="subject"&gt;A different kind of Internet post&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Kidding. it's just rare to see people say they were dead wrong, I know that. I was wrong. Believe me, I'm probably less likely to write that than most of you. Always feeling I am correct is a huge character flaw, but things have changed, and I was dead wrong.&lt;br /&gt;For years, I had enough sense, and that's what I saw it as ... "sense", to lean toward the side of the scientific community in regard to AGW (climate change). Let me preface by saying I'm not a "denier", and I sure as hell wasn't skeptical. If anything I was pissed libertarians spent so much time siding with "cranks". That's the problem here ... and a lot of people aren't getting that not only is a failure to adequately address the problems hurting their cause ... if they keep it up, they'll drag down the wider field of "science". (&lt;a href="http://rightc0ast.livejournal.com/169543.html"&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-84731815529299254?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://rightc0ast.livejournal.com/169543.html' title='Climaquiddick?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/84731815529299254/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=84731815529299254&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/84731815529299254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/84731815529299254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/12/climaquiddick.html' title='Climaquiddick?'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ryOGm_ca7B8/SxmLreGO2-I/AAAAAAAAAR4/XI5Ysj9hWvo/s72-c/gorewrong1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-9044054430740350947</id><published>2009-12-04T01:52:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-04T01:57:35.904-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Solar Activity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Climate Change'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>This new minimum is indeed looking like the Dalton minimum.&lt;br /&gt;Almost but not quite a carbon copy right down to Vulcanism and earth quakes.&lt;br /&gt;I'll even go out on a limb here and predict a NEO or Asteroid type impact event tween now and 2016. The type I'm predicting is a rogue event with time of discovery to impact at or near minutes maybe hours... This is in fact a no brainer as we are moving through a thicker debris field. This may in fact have to do some with a Jovian effect as ole Jupe is heading to its midwinter orbital position.&lt;br /&gt;As far as impact events go. I expect them to be minimal events not ELE's.&lt;br /&gt;We get peppered all the time by the small stuff as any star gazer can tell you. But, We are overdue for some of the bigger stuff. Think Flagstaff kinda impacts. That particular impact was small and the result of Plasma as the rock detonated quite high in the air. It also came straight in towards the ground at a near vertical angle as it's symmetrical impact crater suggests. The type of event I'm suggesting is survivable as long as you are not in the near or immediate vicinity.&lt;br /&gt;I'm also expecting at least a partial grid malfunction due to increased Solar events. Also between now and 2016. The current events have been few and far between, but when they do occur, they are Way Active. We do live in interesting times. &lt;a href="mailto:theelderdragon@gmail.com"&gt;Dragon&lt;/a&gt; out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;Deep Solar Minimum Continues: Solar Minima is historically associated with cooler temps world wide. Ref: Dalton, Maunder, and Sporer minimums. The current minimum is sometimes referred to as the (Sic), Gore minimum. Well the current minimum is now starting to look very much like the Dalton. Hey Al, In case ya didn't get the memo, That means cooling. Way cooling. The Big Show from now till 2016 is in the Sky. Particular interesting is the periods between the autumnal equinox and the spring equinoxes. We should witness several new meteor events as we move into a winter orbit that also coincides with a particularly interesting close approach of jupiter making it's winter run. Jupiter orbits our sun once about every 15 years. Sunspot cycles also occur at or near the same 15 year cycle.&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/"&gt;Space Weather&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Sunspot number: &lt;br /&gt;0&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What&lt;br /&gt;is the sunspot number?&lt;br /&gt;Updated 02 Dec 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spotless Days&lt;br /&gt;Current Stretch: 10 days&lt;br /&gt;2009 total: 253 days (75%)&lt;br /&gt;Since 2004: 764 days&lt;br /&gt;Typical Solar Min: 485 days&lt;br /&gt;explanation | more&lt;br /&gt;info&lt;br /&gt;Updated 02 Dec 2009"&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-9044054430740350947?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/9044054430740350947/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=9044054430740350947&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/9044054430740350947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/9044054430740350947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/12/this-new-minimum-is-indeed-looking-like.html' title=''/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-6354216030835364412</id><published>2009-12-03T00:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-03T00:14:10.988-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Solar Activity'/><title type='text'>It's Official.</title><content type='html'>&lt;h3 class="GenericStory_Message" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;VIA Space Weather...&lt;br /&gt;SOLAR MINIMUM:  &lt;br /&gt;The sun is in the pits of a very deep solar minimum. Many &lt;br /&gt;researchers thought the sunspot cycle had hit bottom in 2008 &lt;br /&gt;when the sun was blank 73% of the time. Not so. 2009 is on &lt;br /&gt;the verge of going even l&lt;span class="text_exposed_hide"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="text_exposed_show"&gt;ower. So far this year, the sun has &lt;br /&gt;been blank 75% of the time, and only a serious outbreak of &lt;br /&gt;sunspots over the next few weeks will prevent 2009 from becoming &lt;br /&gt;the quietest year in a century. Solar minimum continues.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-6354216030835364412?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/6354216030835364412/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=6354216030835364412&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/6354216030835364412'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/6354216030835364412'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/12/its-official.html' title='It&apos;s Official.'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-7696146078981115071</id><published>2009-11-30T15:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T15:09:54.210-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Climate Change'/><title type='text'>The Climate is Falling, The Climate is Falling</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ryOGm_ca7B8/SxQmPISoE-I/AAAAAAAAARw/XyIPfbbz9oY/s1600/Elder1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ryOGm_ca7B8/SxQmPISoE-I/AAAAAAAAARw/XyIPfbbz9oY/s320/Elder1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;                 &lt;span class="UIIntentionalStory_Names" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;name&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000038330084&amp;amp;ref=mf" onclick="ft(&amp;quot;4:9:17:100000038330084::::0::::181867372503&amp;quot;);"&gt;Elder Dragon&lt;/a&gt;                 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="UIStory_Message"&gt;I have questioned the "Climate Change" view for many years.&lt;br /&gt;All this warming nonsense in the face of a "Mini-Ice age" is preposterous.&lt;br /&gt;Counting Carbon on a planet with Carbon based life, Now where could that lead? A modern version of Auschwitz, Baden-Baden, Treblinka, Or Dachau perhaps. You had best be informed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;attach&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Media UIStoryAttachment_MediaSingle" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;media&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;div class="UIMediaItem"&gt;&lt;div class="share_media"&gt;&lt;div class="swfvideo"&gt;&lt;div class="extra"&gt;&lt;div class="video_extra" id="so_181867372503_4b14253590a9d0eb9bbe4_holder"&gt;&lt;a class="video_extra_anchor" href="" onclick="so_181867372503_4b14253590a9d0eb9bbe4.write('so_181867372503_4b14253590a9d0eb9bbe4_holder');share_play_video('181867372503', 'so_181867372503_4b14253590a9d0eb9bbe4');CSS.addClass($(&amp;quot;div_story_855790043_181867372503&amp;quot;), &amp;quot;UIStory_Open&amp;quot;);;return false;" title="Click to play video"&gt;&lt;div class="video_thumb"&gt;&lt;span class="thumb"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=df2430508ea83ff55f522e7932a8b5a4&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FAwkR3uuZMIM%2F2.jpg&amp;amp;w=90&amp;amp;h=90" width="90" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="play"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=df2430508ea83ff55f522e7932a8b5a4&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FAwkR3uuZMIM%2F2.jpg&amp;amp;w=90&amp;amp;h=90" width="90" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="decoy" src="http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=df2430508ea83ff55f522e7932a8b5a4&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FAwkR3uuZMIM%2F2.jpg&amp;amp;w=90&amp;amp;h=90" width="90" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Info"&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.youtube.com%252Fwatch%253Fv%253DAwkR3uuZMIM&amp;amp;h=c7c860ebe93c68fe3fea33836e41442e&amp;amp;ref=mf" onclick="ft(&amp;quot;4:9:17:100000038330084::::0::::181867372503&amp;quot;);" target="_blank"&gt;Al Gore confronted on Climategate in Chicago&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Caption"&gt;www.youtube.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Copy"&gt;We Are Change Chicago confronts Al Gore at a Borders book signing on Climategate, carbon taxes, and the New World Order. Click the link for more info on the confrontation: &lt;a href="http://www.wearechangechicago.com/algore.html" onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), &amp;quot;c7c860ebe93c68fe3fea33836e41442e&amp;quot;, event)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.wearechangechicago.com/algore.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-7696146078981115071?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/7696146078981115071/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=7696146078981115071&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/7696146078981115071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/7696146078981115071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/11/climate-is-falling-climate-is-falling.html' title='The Climate is Falling, The Climate is Falling'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ryOGm_ca7B8/SxQmPISoE-I/AAAAAAAAARw/XyIPfbbz9oY/s72-c/Elder1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-1385652641276184561</id><published>2009-11-22T08:44:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-22T09:03:05.959-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fraud'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Climate Change'/><title type='text'>Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'? - BlackListed News</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://blacklistednews.com/news-6406-0-11-11--.html"&gt;Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'? - BlackListed News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/"&gt;Alleged CRU Emails - Searchable&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-1385652641276184561?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://blacklistednews.com/news-6406-0-11-11--.html' title='Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of &apos;Anthropogenic Global Warming&apos;? - BlackListed News'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/1385652641276184561/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=1385652641276184561&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/1385652641276184561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/1385652641276184561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/11/climategate-final-nail-in-coffin-of.html' title='Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of &apos;Anthropogenic Global Warming&apos;? - BlackListed News'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-2749579988467100785</id><published>2009-11-21T12:48:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-21T12:48:54.457-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Impact Simulation'/><title type='text'>This Would Suck.</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vZiZU42sn6w&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vZiZU42sn6w&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-2749579988467100785?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/2749579988467100785/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=2749579988467100785&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/2749579988467100785'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/2749579988467100785'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/11/this-would-suck.html' title='This Would Suck.'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-4481051903535507231</id><published>2009-11-20T10:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-20T10:20:31.988-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Solar Activity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Space Weather Alerts'/><title type='text'>Sky Show</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;attach&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Media UIStoryAttachment_MediaSingle" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;media&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;div class="UIMediaItem"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%253A%252F%252Fspaceweather.com%252F&amp;amp;h=4c657b3e2356e04efd2b4684b83a20a8&amp;amp;ref=mf" onclick="ft(&amp;quot;4:9:17:100000038330084::::0::::106353249979&amp;quot;);" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;div class="UIMediaItem_Wrapper"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="UIMediaItem_Wrapper"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="UIMediaItem_Wrapper"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=324fca6e28a642b06540e2a625e3a5fa&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fspaceweather.com%2Fimages%2Fswflash_sightings_icon.gif&amp;amp;w=130&amp;amp;h=130" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%253A%252F%252Fspaceweather.com%252F&amp;amp;h=4c657b3e2356e04efd2b4684b83a20a8&amp;amp;ref=mf" onclick="ft(&amp;quot;4:9:17:100000038330084::::0::::106353249979&amp;quot;);" target="_blank"&gt;SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Caption"&gt;Source: spaceweather.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Copy"&gt;ASTEROID FLYBY: Newly-discovered asteroid 2009 WJ6 is flying past Earth today only 110,000 miles away--about half the distance to the Moon. At the time of closest approach (1100 UT on Nov. 20th) the 14-meter-wide ... space rock will glide through the northern constellation                      Draco glowing like a 16th magnitude star. [&lt;a href="http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2009%20WJ6;orb=1"&gt;3D                      orbit&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href="http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi?find_body=1&amp;amp;body_group=sb&amp;amp;sstr=2009%20WJ6"&gt;ephemeris&lt;/a&gt;]                    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Copy"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Copy"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Copy"&gt;&lt;span class="dailySunTitleText"&gt;Daily Sun: 20 Nov. 09&lt;/span&gt;              &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td&gt;&lt;img height="7" src="http://www.spaceweather.com/images/spacer.gif" width="10" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/images2009/20nov09/midi512_blank.gif?PHPSESSID=q3g72n99gpe1mn3b6018hmsfr2"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="163" src="http://www.spaceweather.com/images2009/20nov09/midi163.gif" width="163" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td&gt;&lt;img height="7" src="http://www.spaceweather.com/images/spacer.gif" width="10" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="dailySunCaptionText"&gt; Sunspots 1032 and 1033 are members              of new Solar Cycle 24. Credit: SOHO/MDI&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;              &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td&gt;&lt;img height="14" src="http://www.spaceweather.com/images/spacer.gif" width="10" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;img height="8" src="http://www.spaceweather.com/images/red_gradient_band.jpg" width="163" /&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td&gt;&lt;img height="14" src="http://www.spaceweather.com/images/spacer.gif" width="10" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;   &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="solarWindText"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sunspot number: &lt;span style="color: #006699;"&gt; 30 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="solarWindExplanationText"&gt;&lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/glossary/sunspotnumber.html"&gt;What is the sunspot number?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="solarWindUpdatedText"&gt;Updated 19 Nov 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="solarWindText"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Spotless Days&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Current Stretch: 0 days&lt;br /&gt;2009 total: 243 days (76%)&lt;br /&gt;Since 2004: 754 days&lt;br /&gt;Typical Solar Min: 485 days&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="solarWindExplanationText"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/glossary/spotlessdays.htm?PHPSESSID=q3g72n99gpe1mn3b6018hmsfr2"&gt;explanation&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/01apr_deepsolarminimum.htm"&gt;more info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="solarWindUpdatedText"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-4481051903535507231?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/4481051903535507231/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=4481051903535507231&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/4481051903535507231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/4481051903535507231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/11/sky-show.html' title='Sky Show'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-8438788196797882597</id><published>2009-11-18T18:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-18T18:04:17.366-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Space Weather Alerts'/><title type='text'>Great Balls of Fire.</title><content type='html'>Now, maybe some of Ya'll will start believing me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;attach&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Media UIStoryAttachment_MediaSingle" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;media&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;div class="UIMediaItem"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%253A%252F%252Fspaceweather.com%252F&amp;amp;h=76241e9fdebbae6361864732b824a558&amp;amp;ref=mf" onclick="ft(&amp;quot;4:9:17:100000038330084::::0::::184334736359&amp;quot;);" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;div class="UIMediaItem_Wrapper"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=84ae6923b4ca19fc54bd704f39a7a63c&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fspaceweather.com%2Fimages%2Falerts_temp_icon.gif&amp;amp;w=130&amp;amp;h=130" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%253A%252F%252Fspaceweather.com%252F&amp;amp;h=76241e9fdebbae6361864732b824a558&amp;amp;ref=mf" onclick="ft(&amp;quot;4:9:17:100000038330084::::0::::184334736359&amp;quot;);" target="_blank"&gt;SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Caption"&gt;Source: spaceweather.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Copy"&gt;GREAT FIREBALL: A remarkable midnight fireball that "turned night into day" over parts of the western United States last night was not a Leonid. Infrasound measurements suggest a sporadic asteroid not associated with the Leonid debris stream. ...The space rock exploded in the atmosphere with                      an energy equivalent to 0.5 - 1 kilotons of TNT. Approximately                      6 hours later, observers in Utah and Colorado witnessed a                      &lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Jeff-Kendrick-IMAG0051_1258558329.jpg"&gt;twisting&lt;/a&gt;                      &lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=scott-stringham-_MG_2242-2_1258567737.jpg"&gt;iridescent-blue&lt;/a&gt;                      &lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Lisa-Cain-Noctilucent-clouds-006_1258553166_fl.jpg"&gt;cloud&lt;/a&gt;                      in the dawn sky. Debris from the fireball should have dissipated                      by that time, but the cloud remains unexplained; we cannot                      yet rule out a connection to the fireball event. Stay tuned                      for further analysis. &lt;strong&gt;videos:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&amp;amp;sid=8714738"&gt;#1&lt;/a&gt;,                      &lt;a href="http://www.ktvb.com/news/Witnesses-see-meteor-light-up-the-night-sky-70358772.html"&gt;#2&lt;/a&gt;,                      &lt;a href="http://www.heliotown.com/Utah_Fireball_Ashcraft.html"&gt;#3&lt;/a&gt;.                    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-8438788196797882597?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/8438788196797882597/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=8438788196797882597&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/8438788196797882597'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/8438788196797882597'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/11/great-balls-of-fire.html' title='Great Balls of Fire.'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-5401583681190138617</id><published>2009-11-11T00:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-11T00:20:04.520-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Police State'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='HealthCare'/><title type='text'>Updates.</title><content type='html'>Due to some jackwad spamming Cialis in comments. I've had to make it so that anonymous users cannot comment. If it continues I'll enable comment moderation.&lt;br /&gt;In other areas, I've finally got the jeep back home and accessed the flood damage to it. Right now it's a toss up between bringing it back up to snuff or parting it out. It's worth more as parts than what I paid for it.&lt;br /&gt;Another factor is, that I may have a line on a 6x6 multi-fuel which would make the Jeep expendable.&lt;br /&gt;In other news, I'm exercising my right of choice to opt out of the whole health care deal. Yes, I do know that there is no opt out clause. But, to try to send me to jail for not having insurance is unconstitutional.&lt;br /&gt;I Refuse...I Resist.... Period....End of subject....&lt;br /&gt;I see the symptoms of collapse are accelerating all around. I hope you have noticed and not got caught up in the latest bread and circuses.&lt;br /&gt;The economy is shit and work that pays is hard to find.&lt;br /&gt;I just did a roof job so cheap that I could not afford to hire any labor.&amp;nbsp; Just so I had cig money as the Pa dot gov just raised the tax another dollar a pack.&lt;br /&gt;I tell you straight up that the US deserves the next 6 years of hell...Oh! It's karma come home to roost in spades.&lt;br /&gt;Some predictions before I split. Expect some bigger quakes closer to home towards spring. That and I'll go out on a limb and forecast at least one significant meteor impact in the near future. Any time now.&lt;br /&gt;The last coffin nails are being driven in "Gorbal Warming" this spring as cooler temps continue. Politicians should rethink the Carbon Tax as an already pissed folks are not going to stand for more shit. That may get you a cig and a blindfold chum. It's time to fly the flag upside down. Ya'll know what I've been predicting and We are going to witness it soon. Hell, I might be able to give you about a 72 hour heads up, but that's about it. Rethink the bugout time table, NOW! before it's needed. Ya'll sea level people might want to think about getting about a hundred feet higher also. Oh well, thats all I have time for now.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-5401583681190138617?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/5401583681190138617/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=5401583681190138617&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/5401583681190138617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/5401583681190138617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/11/updates.html' title='Updates.'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-6840650200903318120</id><published>2009-11-08T00:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-08T00:59:27.381-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Solar Activity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='2012'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Space Weather Alerts'/><title type='text'>Did You miss it?</title><content type='html'>From Space Weather:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FARSIDE EXPLOSION:                      &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; On Nov. 5th, something exploded on the far                      side of the sun. The blast hurled a coronal mass ejection                      &lt;b&gt;(CME)&lt;/b&gt; over the sun's limb, recorded by coronagraphs on the                      Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). Click on the image                      to launch a 14-hour time lapse movie:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/images2009/05nov09/cme_c3_big.gif?PHPSESSID=fsqnm5uj40rs7sa3drgs90d1l5"&gt;&lt;img border="1" height="191" src="http://www.spaceweather.com/images2009/05nov09/20091105_1518_c3_512_strip.gif" width="360" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The source of the eruption is probably &lt;b&gt;sunspot 1029&lt;/b&gt;, which                      is transiting the far side of the sun. Last week, when &lt;b&gt;sunspot                      1029&lt;/b&gt; was visible from Earth, it quickly grew into the &lt;b&gt;biggest                      and most active sunspot of the year&lt;/b&gt;, unleashing &lt;b&gt;ten C-class                      solar flares in just a few days&lt;/b&gt;. Apparently, the action hasn't                      stopped. The sun's rotation will turn the sunspot back toward                      Earth about a week from now. If the sunspot holds together                      that long, we &lt;b&gt;could experience some solar activity&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/xtra/results_solar_telescopes.php?searchTerm=personal%20solar%20telescope"&gt;Stay                      tuned&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ASTEROID NEAR MISS:                      &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; On Nov. 6th at 2132 UT, asteroid &lt;a href="http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2009%20VA;orb=1"&gt;2009                      VA&lt;/a&gt; &lt;b&gt;barely&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;missed&lt;/b&gt; Earth when it flew just &lt;b&gt;14,000 km above                      the planet's surface.&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit"&gt;Clarke                      Belt&lt;/a&gt;" of geosynchronous satellites.&lt;/b&gt; That's well inside the " If it had hit,                      the ~6-meter wide space rock would have disintegrated in the                      atmosphere as a spectacular fireball, causing no significant                      damage to the ground. 2009 VA was &lt;b&gt;discovered just 15 hours&lt;/b&gt;                      before closest approach by astronomers working at the &lt;a href="http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/css/"&gt;Catalina                      Sky Survey&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MAGNETIC FILAMENT:                      &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Today, amateur astronomers are monitoring                      a picturesque magnetic filament looping around the western                      limb of the sun. Jan Timmermans sends this picture from his                      backyard observatory in Valkenswaard, The Netherlands:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Jan-Timmermans-sun_ha_pst_powermate2dot5_sc3abwraw_birb_20091107-121635121733_1257600577.jpg"&gt;&lt;img border="1" height="243" src="http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2009/07nov09/Jan-Timmermans1_strip.jpg" width="360" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The portion of the filament seen in front of                      the sun looks dark, because it is cooler than the inferno                      below. But note how the filament glows in projection against                      the black space beyond the limb. The glow comes from plasma                      trapped inside the filament--not as bright as the surface                      of the sun, but definitely brighter than the void.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;"The image clearly shows that the only                      difference between a 'dark' filament and a 'bright' prominence                      is where they are located: inside or outside the solar disk,"                      notes Timmermans. (&lt;a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2009/07nov09/Jan-Timmermans1_dif.jpg?PHPSESSID=fsqnm5uj40rs7sa3drgs90d1l5"&gt;diagram&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;****From Space weather.com. Provided here as a service to keep you easily informed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-6840650200903318120?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/6840650200903318120/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=6840650200903318120&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/6840650200903318120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/6840650200903318120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/11/did-you-miss-it.html' title='Did You miss it?'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-570662548510381297</id><published>2009-11-04T18:49:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-04T18:56:19.998-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='All in'/><title type='text'>All In.</title><content type='html'>Turns out that the end game has been staring us in the face for a long, long time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="1" height="365" scrolling="no" src="http://www.7is7.com/otto/countdown.html?year=2012&amp;amp;month=12&amp;amp;date=21&amp;amp;hrs=0&amp;amp;ts=24&amp;amp;min=0&amp;amp;sec=0&amp;amp;tz=UTC&amp;amp;lang=en&amp;amp;show=dhms&amp;amp;mode=r&amp;amp;cdir=down&amp;amp;bgcolor=%23CCFFFF&amp;amp;fgcolor=%23000000&amp;amp;title=Countdown%20To" style="height: 22.8em; overflow: hidden; width: 15.6em;" width="250"&gt;&amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://www.7is7.com/otto/countdown.html?year=2012&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;month=12&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;date=21&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;hrs=0&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ts=24&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;min=0&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;sec=0&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;tz=UTC&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lang=en&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;show=dhms&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;mode=r&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;cdir=down&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;bgcolor=%23CCFFFF&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;fgcolor=%23000000&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;title=Countdown%20To"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Countdown To&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the end game.....&lt;a href="http://www.halfpasthuman.com/RadioSpecial.html" onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), &amp;quot;0a91c546253eb166618e80f942b983c1&amp;quot;, event)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span&gt;http://www.halfpasthuman.c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;&lt;span class="word_break"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;om/RadioSpecial.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It checks out....&lt;br /&gt;When You come to the realization of what that link implies.&lt;br /&gt;Things just start to click into place.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-570662548510381297?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/570662548510381297/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=570662548510381297&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/570662548510381297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/570662548510381297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/11/all-in.html' title='All In.'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-6446102517169917912</id><published>2009-10-29T20:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-29T20:22:29.539-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Space Weather Alerts'/><title type='text'>About the Sun</title><content type='html'>&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="left" width="571"&gt;&lt;span class="storyTitle"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt; The Sun's Sneaky                      Variability&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td align="right" width="124"&gt; &lt;span class="storyTitle"&gt; 10.27.2009&lt;/span&gt;                    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;                  &lt;td colspan="2"&gt;                    &lt;!-- Body starts --&gt;                   &lt;div align="center" class="storylink"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;                      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;                    &lt;!-- Begin Alternates --&gt;                   &lt;/span&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;                      &lt;!--&lt;a class="availFmts" href="http://ciencia.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/16jan_titan.htm"&gt;en espa&amp;ntilde;ol&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;--&gt;                     &lt;a href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/images/eve/audio/story.m3u"&gt;                      &lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;+ Play                      Audio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;                      | &lt;a href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/images/eve/audio/story.mp3"&gt;                      + Download Audio&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://science.nasa.gov/programs/mail/sendfriend.asp"&gt;+                      Email to a friend&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://science.nasa.gov/news/subscribe.asp"&gt;+                      Join mailing list&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October                      27, 2009:&lt;/strong&gt; Every 11 years, the sun undergoes a furious                      upheaval. Dark sunspots burst forth from beneath the sun's                      surface. Explosions as powerful as a billion atomic bombs                      spark intense flares of high-energy radiation. Clouds of gas                      big enough to swallow planets break away from the sun and                      billow into space. It's a flamboyant display of stellar power.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;So                      why can't we see any of it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080601.html"&gt;&lt;img align="right" alt="see caption" border="1" height="214" hspace="10" src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/images/eve/prom1743_eit_med.jpg" width="269" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Almost                      none of the drama of Solar Maximum is visible to the human                      eye. Look at the sun in the noontime sky and—ho-hum—it's the                      same old bland ball of bright light.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;"The                      problem is, human eyes are tuned to the wrong wavelength,"                      explains Tom Woods, a solar physicist at the University of                      Colorado in Boulder. "If you want to get a good look                      at solar activity, you need to look in the EUV."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="detailImageDesc"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Right:                      &lt;/strong&gt;The active sun photographed at EUV wavelengths by                      the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory in the year 2000. [&lt;a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080601.html"&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-6446102517169917912?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/6446102517169917912/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=6446102517169917912&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/6446102517169917912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/6446102517169917912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/10/about-sun.html' title='About the Sun'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-3657449600107308710</id><published>2009-10-28T19:03:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-28T19:05:51.999-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Space Weather Alerts'/><title type='text'>Watching the skies.</title><content type='html'>There's a reason I'm always looking up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Space Weather News for Oct. 28, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/" target="_blank"&gt;http://spaceweather.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;INDONESIAN ASTEROID: &amp;nbsp;Earlier this month, with no warning, a ~10-meter wide asteroid hit Earth's atmosphere above Indonesia and exploded. The break-up was so powerful, it triggered nuclear test ban sensors thousands of kilometers away. A just-released analysis of infrasound data shows that the asteroid detonated with an energy equivalent of &amp;nbsp;about 50 kton of TNT, similar to a small atomic bomb. &amp;nbsp;This significant impact has received relatively little attention in Western press. &amp;nbsp;Details are available today on &lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/" target="_blank"&gt;http://spaceweather.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Video: &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeQBzTkJNhs"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeQBzTkJNhs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SUNSPOT UPDATE: &amp;nbsp;Since it emerged last weekend, new-cycle sunspot 1029 has become the biggest and most active sunspot of 2009. &amp;nbsp;It is crackling with B- and C-class solar flares and putting on a good show for amateur astronomers. This one sunspot does not put an end to solar minimum, but it is a remarkable break from the calm. &amp;nbsp;Check htttp://&lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/" target="_blank"&gt;spaceweather.com&lt;/a&gt; for images and updates.&lt;br /&gt;New subscribers: To sign up for free space weather alerts, click here: &lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/services/" target="_blank"&gt;http://spaceweather.com/&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;services/&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CONNECT YOUR PHONE TO THE SKY:&amp;nbsp; Would you like a call when Earth-orbiting satellites detect strong solar flares and solar wind gusts?&amp;nbsp; Sign up for Spaceweather PHONE to turn your telephone into a bona fide solar activity alert system: http://spaceweatherphone.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-3657449600107308710?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/3657449600107308710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=3657449600107308710&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/3657449600107308710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/3657449600107308710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/10/watching-skies.html' title='Watching the skies.'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-8629649693650847014</id><published>2009-10-20T08:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-20T08:33:12.530-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MOTD'/><title type='text'>Space Weather News</title><content type='html'>Space Weather News for Oct. 20, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" target="_blank"&gt;http://spaceweather.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;METEORS FROM HALLEY'S COMET: Earth is entering a stream of dusty debris from Halley's Comet, and this is causing the annual Orionid meteor shower. If forecasters are correct, the shower will peak on Wednesday morning, Oct. 21st, with dozens of meteors per hour. The best time to look is during the dark hours before local dawn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the past three years, Orionid rates have been unusually high, with reports of 60 or more meteors per hour. &amp;nbsp;Researchers believe this is a result of some very old and rich debris from Comet Halley drifting across Earth's orbit. &amp;nbsp;Computer models of the debris suggest that it is still in the neighborhood, so the trend of "good Orionids" could continue in 2009. &amp;nbsp;Visit &lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" target="_blank"&gt;http://spaceweather.com&lt;/a&gt; for photos and updates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To sign up for free space weather alerts, click here: &lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/services/" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" target="_blank"&gt;http://spaceweather.com/&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;services/&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;br /&gt;While your there check out the Sunspots.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-8629649693650847014?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/8629649693650847014/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=8629649693650847014&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/8629649693650847014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/8629649693650847014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/10/space-weather-news.html' title='Space Weather News'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-6613677507062737197</id><published>2009-10-19T08:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T08:18:29.256-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CME'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Space Weather Alerts'/><title type='text'>CME Detected.</title><content type='html'>CME detected.&lt;br /&gt;Just in from &lt;a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/"&gt;space weather&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;span class="UIStory_Message"&gt;E&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;ARTH-DIRECTED ERUPTION: &lt;br /&gt;On Saturday, Oct. 17th, starting around 18:24 &lt;br /&gt;UT, a spotless active region in the sun's southern hemisphere &lt;br /&gt;erupted, hurling a faint coronal mass ejection (CME&lt;span class="text_exposed_hide"&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="text_exposed_show"&gt;) in the &lt;br /&gt;general direction of Earth. SOHO's extreme UV telescope recorded &lt;br /&gt;this movie &lt;a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/images2009/18oct09/eit195_anim.gif?PHPSESSID=8ofrlbel4oqoi058dtp9sho8t0" onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), &amp;quot;d8d277c3ab46187e305beed550e19c1a&amp;quot;, event)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span&gt;http://www.spaceweather.com/images2009/1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;&lt;span class="word_break"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;8oct09/eit195_anim.gif?PHPSESSID=8ofrlbe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;&lt;span class="word_break"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;l4oqoi058dtp9sho8t0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;of the blast. High-latitude sky watchers should be &lt;br /&gt;alert for auroras on Oct. 19th or 20th when the CME arrives.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-6613677507062737197?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/6613677507062737197/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=6613677507062737197&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/6613677507062737197'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/6613677507062737197'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/10/cme-detected.html' title='CME Detected.'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-701204869511150188</id><published>2009-10-19T00:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T00:09:12.815-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Global Cooling'/><title type='text'>An Inconvenient Reality?</title><content type='html'>Gore, Buffoon of the century.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YF31ImEozbA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YF31ImEozbA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-701204869511150188?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/701204869511150188/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=701204869511150188&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/701204869511150188'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/701204869511150188'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/10/inconvenient-reality.html' title='An Inconvenient Reality?'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-5702269302204589193</id><published>2009-10-17T14:31:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-17T14:52:15.043-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CERN'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Space Weather Alerts'/><title type='text'>Multi-subject post.</title><content type='html'>Hey Ya'll. I haven't been posted in awhile.&lt;br /&gt;So I thought I'd remedy that today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First up is a link to &lt;a href="http://spaceweather.com/"&gt;Space Weather&lt;/a&gt; for some news.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spotless Days&lt;br /&gt;Current Stretch: 15 days&lt;br /&gt;2009 total: 227 days (79%)&lt;br /&gt;Since 2004: 738 days&lt;br /&gt;Typical Solar Min: 485 days&lt;br /&gt;explanation | more info&lt;br /&gt;Updated 16 Oct 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The over to Cern for Some areas of Concern.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/12/cern-terrorist-suspect-charged"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Cern physicist suspected of Al-Qaida links charged&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="main-article-info"&gt;&lt;div class="stand-first-alone" id="stand-first"&gt;French investigators have charged a man working at the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider"&gt;Large Hadron Collider &lt;/a&gt;for 'criminal association with a terrorist enterprise'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="stand-first-alone" id="stand-first"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/10/is-a-time-travelling-higgs-sab.html" title="external link"&gt;Time-travelling Higgs sabotages the LHC. No, really     &lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;As George Ure says, that's some WUJO stuff. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Police Abuses File:&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA2v5N4a6Lk" onclick="ft(&amp;quot;4:10:80:1563091758:10:::0:nf:::&amp;quot;);" target="_blank"&gt;Police use taser on unarmed amputee with no legs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Caption"&gt;Source: www.youtube.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Copy"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.afrostyly.com/english" onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), &amp;quot;dc608524f6cc11be29e8face1161c576&amp;quot;, event)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.afrostyly.com/english&lt;/a&gt; Material available to advance understanding of issues of ecological and humanitarian significance. I believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Copy"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Copy"&gt;&lt;b&gt;And some funnies...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wmRSuYIL1zc&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wmRSuYIL1zc&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="main-article-info"&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Copy"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="UIStoryAttachment_Copy"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6714774671217914435-5702269302204589193?l=circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/feeds/5702269302204589193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6714774671217914435&amp;postID=5702269302204589193&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/5702269302204589193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6714774671217914435/posts/default/5702269302204589193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://circleoftheoroborous-dragon.blogspot.com/2009/10/multi-subject-post.html' title='Multi-subject post.'/><author><name>Dragon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02127473453909413019</uri><email>theelderdragon@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06836978255183814267'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714774671217914435.post-1340724185383142789</id><published>2009-10-12T05:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T05:06:11.788-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MOTD'/><title type='text'>Fear...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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