Ummm... it's called a solar flare. Quite normal considering the sun's
energy output has been increasing and decreasing in 22 year cycles
within another cycle of 110 years. Heat will only cause it to "burn"
more fuel thus shrinking in size as the atomic weights increase as a
result of fusion thereby generating larger gravitational pull and
greater heat. Funny I thought this was October and not April. hmmm. have
to check that atomic clock, may need some more radium isotope!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Hutchings [mailto:mark@desynergy.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 1:47 PM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: OT: Earth is coming to an end?
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> http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20020918/103236120009.html
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> The Sun is overheating and will soon blow up . . . taking 
> Earth and the rest of 
> the solar system with it, scientists warn. 
> 
> The alert was issued after an international satellite 
> photographed a massive 
> explosion on the surface of the Sun that sent a plume of fire 
> 30 times longer 
> than the diameter of Earth blasting into space. 
> 
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