Category: Research

By Posted on Posted in History, My Creations, Research, WWII No Comments Tagged with , , ,

Many moons ago when I started my VI Corps Combat Engineers of WWII website, I also began a forum, which currently has 2,336 members registered. Our members have made a total of 31,138 posts in 5,423 threads. I’m always pleased to see the amount of traffic it receives on a daily basis, even after all this time. For instance, in the last fifteen minutes (those are how stats are presented), I see 102 visitors. The most users online at one time was 673 on 04-25-2024 at 03:22 PM. That astounds me and makes me feel very proud…

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You know me, always interested in science and weather-related articles are no exception. The following is from Spaceweather.com, and I learned something new.

THE MAY 10TH SUPERSTORM ELECTRIFIED EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE: The geomagnetic superstorm of May 10, 2024, did more than spark widespread auroras. New data show that it also electrified Earth’s atmosphere. Fair weather electric fields jumped as much as 15% for four days after the storm.

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Planet Earth moon and sun (Nasa imagery) (Planet Earth moon and sun

A few years ago, I signed up to receive newsletters from Spaceweather.com, a news and information website about the Sun-Earth environment. They have many fascination articles, including information on when and where you can watch the aurora borealis, more commonly known as the northern lights (in my part of the world).

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The Zooniverse project I started the other day, was a smaller one which ran out of current data, so this morning I began my third one, Solar Jet Hunters. It’s something right up my alley, since I’ve always been strongly attracted to solar research. In fact, if I could start a new career in astrophysics, this would wind up being my course of study. And what timing, since we just had a North American solar eclipse on Monday…

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