[cmsgop]

Should Read..

"University of Dionne Warwick"

[dr_who]

At least they're not connected to the moon phases.

[mdittmar]

In fact statistically, the solar wind fluctuations are similar to those found previously for fluctuations in stock market indices. Large fluctuations in the solar wind affect our local ‘space weather’. Predicting these is as challenging as predicting large changes in stock prices. As this work suggests that the underlying mathematics is similar we can apply knowledge from one area to understand the other.

In other words,they have no frickin' idea,but I see a book in the future:

"How to survive the coming Solar Collapse"

[Scully]

An I'll-read-it-later placemarker

[Lokibob]

And from space weather .com ( http://www.spaceweather.com/ ) here is the solar wind report for right now:

 

 

[Cachelot]

Sunspots, you say?!? SELL, SELL, SELL!!!

[backhoe]

Nice picture of the Sun in the light of hydrogen-alpha... realtime observations here:

The Sun has a Thousand Faces--- Thread 3

[A. Morgan]

Is it a full moon?

[Fractal Trader]

Quite plausible.

An excellent reference on the timing of these types of events can be found in "The Spiral Calendar," by Christopher Carolan, a truly thought-provoking book.

[Mmmike]

I was wondering what happened to 'Spirit of Truth' !