Usually these storms are preceded by a CME and can be predicted, but lately a few of them have had no accompanying CME, and have taken scientists by surprise. One of my favorite sayings these days is "Scientists are scrambling." Indeed. As I've been saying, the Sun is going berserk right now.
These streaks of light are wild. They were seen last night in several places in the US and Canada. The official explanation is that they're a phenomenon called a "STEVE," or Strong Thermal Emmision Velocity Enhancement, that occur during solar storms. Some people don't think that's what these are, but whatever they are they're rare.
One guy said that these streaks are from the launches of a new type of Chinese rocket. To me that seems very doubtful, unless they've been launching rockets all over the world. It seems very unlikely that they could freely launch rockets over the US willy nilly.
This was picked up last night on the LASCO C-3 satellite. It almost looks like the tail of a gigantic comet, only there's no comet. I've been looking at these satellite images since 2016 and I've seen Sun-diving comets, weird shadows, strange eclipses and things like that but I've never seen anything like this.
It's not a glitch or camera anomaly...they're adamant about the fact that these instruments are calibrated constantly. Whatever this is it's massive. The white circle represents the Sun. Over 100 Earths can fit across the Sun. This thing is at least as big as a dozen or so Earths.
This is why it's so interesting to look at these satellite images. Occasionally we see things that can't be explained by normal means. I'd sure love to know what caused this. Stay tuned, and eyes to the sky.
If you haven't heard about this yet you will pretty soon. So far there are well over 1,000 reports and there are videos all over YouTube and I'm sure there will be many more. It's rather creepy but it's definite interesting.
What could be causing this? So far no one knows, but something is interfering with the flow of electricity, and it's affecting the entire planet. Nothing like this has ever happened before. I'm curious to see what the "Official Explanation" is going to be.
Is it Aliens? The magnetosphere? Poltergeists? Is it Planet X? Is it Elvis? Whatever it is it must be massive to affect the whole planet. Buckle-up...I believe things are about to get even crazier. This is whack. Heads-up.
What's interesting is that supposedly if they have a bad play, at least in the opinion of the alleged spirit that haunts it, they'll find a penny somewhere, and they're always wheat pennies and sometimes even Indian Head pennies. That's a cool story anyway, and supposedly even skeptics think it's legitimately haunted.
It reminded me of another old theater in Montgomery, Alabama where there was talk of it being haunted, although that was largely due to the antics of the Bud Greene band. I've told this story before but it's classic, and as always who cares?
Sometimes with Bud Greene the breaks could be as much fun as the sets were, and this was such a place. They'd converted the old lobby into the bar. In the theater section they'd removed maybe 2/3 of the seats and put in a dance floor and tables. The bands of course played on the stage.
During breaks they'd play music in the bar area and most people would go into there. It'd be quiet in the theater part, so a few couples would go in there when they wanted to have a quiet romantic chat on the break.
About 15' up there was a catwalk that ran above the stage and around the room. Stage lights were hung from it, shining on the stage and toward the room. The drum kit was well-lit. You could take the stairs and go through a door and come out over the stage. O' and I would go up there with a joint and a pocketful of pennies.
We'd slip out onto the catwalk and sit above the drums. It was great because we'd be sitting behind the lights in total shadow, so no one could see us even if they were looking right at us. We'd take turns dropping pennies down onto the drums. We'd have a contest to see how many drums and cymbals we could hit with one penny.
Of course the first hit would startle the shit out of everyone in the room. They'd all look toward the drum kit and see that no one was there. They'd get sort of bug-eyed and tilt their heads. Yeah we were 30yo juvenile assholes but we thought it was hilarious. Even though nobody could see us, the trick was not to laugh and give ourselves away.
People would start murmuring about the place being haunted, and that was the best part. We'd wait a few minutes until people would go back to their romantic conversations and then we'd drop another one. It'd freak people out, especially when we'd hit several drums and cymbals with one drop.
We thought it was great to see everybody staring in confusion at an empty stage. A penny dropped from that height made a surprisingly loud sound. It sounded like someone was hitting the drums rather than a penny falling on them. We called our obnoxious little game "Pennies from Heaven."
I'm guessing a few people figured it out but we never heard anyone mention it. Mostly people would be talking about the place being haunted. The difference between the two "haunted" theaters was that in our case, the "ghosts" were O' and me, and we didn't drop any wheat pennies or Indian Heads. I guess haunted is haunted. Good times.
