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Solar Flares

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  • 08-09-2017 1:17pm
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    cfuserkildare
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    Just a quick question, and if this is in the wrong forum then can it be moved to the correct place?

    I was looking at the news a minute ago and began to wonder,

    Is there a connection between the Massive Solar Flare yesterday, and the Huge Earthquake off Mexico last night?


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    mickmackey1
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    Absolutely none, except for those in the tin hat brigade.


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    endacl
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    cfuserkildare wrote: »
    Just a quick question, and if this is in the wrong forum then can it be moved to the correct place?

    I was looking at the news a minute ago and began to wonder,

    Is there a connection between the Massive Solar Flare yesterday, and the Huge Earthquake off Mexico last night?

    I went to make a cup of coffee a short while ago. Realised I'm out of coffee. It's raining.

    Any connection?


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    cfuserkildare
    Registered Users Posts: 3,586 ✭✭✭cfuserkildare


    mickmackey1 wrote: »
    Absolutely none, except for those in the tin hat brigade.


    How sure are you really?

    Have you spent any time studying the possibility?


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    ThunderCat
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    cfuserkildare wrote: »
    Just a quick question, and if this is in the wrong forum then can it be moved to the correct place?

    I was looking at the news a minute ago and began to wonder,

    Is there a connection between the Massive Solar Flare yesterday, and the Huge Earthquake off Mexico last night?



    The frequency of Solar Flares range from one a week to several per day so there is no connection.


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    endacl
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    cfuserkildare wrote: »
    How sure are you really?

    Have you spent any time studying the possibility?

    You proposed it.

    Describe the mechanism whereby a superheated plasma discharge, moving through a vacuum at a decreasing distance from 150000000 kilometres could cause tectonic activity.

    At the time of the earthquake, you jumping off your kitchen table would have had a greater possibility of causing an earthquake. Not a big possibility, but a greater one.


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    RoisinClare6
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    cfuserkildare wrote: »
    Just a quick question, and if this is in the wrong forum then can it be moved to the correct place?

    I was looking at the news a minute ago and began to wonder,

    Is there a connection between the Massive Solar Flare yesterday, and the Huge Earthquake off Mexico last night?

    Hmmm...isn't that the start of the movie 2012


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    cfuserkildare
    Registered Users Posts: 3,586 ✭✭✭cfuserkildare


    RoisinClare6 wrote: »
    Hmmm...isn't that the start of the movie 2012

    ???
    Never seen it.


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    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,299 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    cfuserkildare wrote: »
    ???
    Never seen it.
    Enjoyable end of the world disaster romp, based on ludicrous sciencey-sounding stuff. The neutrinos mutated. That was bad.


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    RoisinClare6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭RoisinClare6


    cfuserkildare wrote: »
    ???
    Never seen it.

    Have to say I quite enjoyed it


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    Avatar MIA
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    cfuserkildare wrote: »

    Have you spent any time studying the possibility?

    He's got you there, may as well give up now.


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    ps200306
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    cfuserkildare wrote: »
    I was looking at the news a minute ago and began to wonder,

    Is there a connection between the Massive Solar Flare yesterday, and the Huge Earthquake off Mexico last night?

    It is a common mistake to believe that because one thing follows another it is therefore caused by that other thing. The mistake is referred to as a post hoc fallacy. Post hoc is Latin for "after this", and is shorthand for post hoc ergo propter hoc ... "after this therefore because of this".

    Of course it is not impossible for one thing to cause another, but there is no a priori reason to assume it does. In other words, the default assumption is that it does not, unless you are able to demonstrate some connection or have a good reason to suspect one. Do you?

    It also doesn't make sense to ask the person who gives the default answer whether they have studied the matter. There is no need to do so. The default answer is no because there is no reason to answer yes. If you think there is, the burden of proof is on you.


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    cfuserkildare
    Registered Users Posts: 3,586 ✭✭✭cfuserkildare


    Good god,
    You would think i was thick!!!

    Having studied Geology ( at secondary school level), and history (same level), there does seem to be a loose corellation between Solar events and both weather and geological events.

    Most religions quote events like this.

    Historical sources describe events like this too.

    So why the attitude??


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    endacl
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    cfuserkildare wrote: »
    Good god,
    You would think i was thick!!!

    Having studied Geology ( at secondary school level), and history (same level), there does seem to be a loose corellation between Solar events and both weather and geological events.

    Most religions quote events like this.

    Historical sources describe events like this too.

    So why the attitude??

    Leaving cert? Grand. You're an expert.
    There's not a loose correlation between the sun and the weather. There's an absolute one. There is no correlation whatsoever between 'solar events' and 'weather and geological events', though.
    Religions quote all sorts of nonsense. Do you really need examples?
    Historical sources are reports of events based on the state of the knowledge at the time they occurred.

    No attitude. You asked a daft question. You were answered.


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    cfuserkildare
    Registered Users Posts: 3,586 ✭✭✭cfuserkildare


    Not too sure about this source, but here it is anyway:-

    https://watchers.news/2015/06/09/cosmic-solar-radiation-as-the-cause-of-earthquakes-and-volcanic-eruptions/


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    ps200306
    Registered Users Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭ps200306


    cfuserkildare wrote: »
    Not too sure about this source, but here it is anyway:-

    https://watchers.news/2015/06/09/cosmic-solar-radiation-as-the-cause-of-earthquakes-and-volcanic-eruptions/

    At least some of his references are junk science e.g. The Space and Science Research Center. And he dismisses quantum and relativity theories. Sounds enough like a quack that I wouldn't be wasting too much time looking into him. Obviously I could be wrong, but life's too short to investigate every nutter with a theory.


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    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,299 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    "I went through some of these research papers and found an outstanding observed data that are self-explanatory, if one equipped with the correct physics."

    Seems legit. I'm in.


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