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To: Dennis M.

You didn’t get the reference. BS = Bob Seger. Sunspot Baby was one of his hits. 😎


21 posted on 08/22/2023 9:48:00 PM PDT by Right Brother
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Interesting. Mars is pretty much behind the Sun at this point in its orbit so the Mars rover is looking at the back side of the Sun from our perspective and seeing a sunspot that will rotate around into our view in a few days. The Sun takes about 25-26 days to rotate. I recall that in 2012 there was a very large CME event similar to the dreaded Carrington event of 1859 (that would fry our modern electronics as it did the primitive telegraph system then operating). Luckily for us, the 2012 CME was pointed at right angles to the Sun-earth line and went off harmlessly into a different part of the solar system.

If we lose internet, phone me and I will rant incoherently over the phone to you, so you won’t totally lose the experience of the internet. I will mention things like Putin’s good or bad points and how Zelensky is a very brave man or a globohomo tyrant. Your choice. $3.98 a minute.

Oh wait the telephone won’t work either. Oh well.


24 posted on 08/22/2023 9:54:48 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (It's tough non-work but somebody (Congress) has not to do it. )
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