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Solar Winds
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Solar Winds is the pinnacle of science fiction. It gives the chance to be this tough guy with a cool spaceship and lots of guns. And you get to dish out great lines, too. "YOU ARE MORE UGLY" -- yow! Take that, Wartface!
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Solar Winds is a five-piece ensemble, with flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn. After the show, the ensemble will deconstruct a piece of music by playing through it one instrument at a time, and then adding them together to perform the total piece.
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If these utilities had been written for UNIX, then Solar Winds would have been using Berkeley Sockets and found no reason to lean on OCXs to do their job for them under Windows. The Berkeley Sockets API is eminently accessible even from Visual Basic: all one needs is know-how. If Solar Winds had in fact developed networking utilities for UNIX, they would have had this know-how.
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Solar winds are comparable to daily breezes on Earth -mild and steady. Solar flares... are like intense storms. The solar flares are much more powerful than solar winds, but they are localized and tend to blast material in just one direction. Flares release a quick burst of energy equivalent to 10 million volcanic eruptions or more than a billion hydrogen bombs. A coronal mass ejection (CME) is the like a hurricane- an energetic storm spread over a large area. A CME is the eruption of a huge bubble of plasma from the corona.
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Present observation, theory, and modeling provide the following general picture of the corona and solar wind. At times of lower solar activity, the solar wind is bimodal, consisting of a dominant quasi-steady high-speed wind that originates in open-eld polar coronal holes and a variable, low-speed wind that originates around the equatorial streamer belt. With increasing activity, this orderly bimodal configuration of the corona and the solar wind breaks down, as the polar holes shrink and streamers appear at higher and higher heliographic latitudes. At these times, the bimodal wind structure is replaced by a complex mixture of fast flows from smaller coronal holes and transients, embedded in a slow-to-moderate speed wind from all latitudes. The energy that heats the corona and drives the wind derives from photospheric motions and is channeled, stored, and dissipated by the magnetic fields that emerge from the photosphere and structure the coronal plasma. Several fundamental plasma physical processes—waves and instabilities, magnetic reconnection, turbulence—operating on a vast range of spatial and temporal scales are believed to play a role in coronal heating and solar wind acceleration.
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An international team of scientists have revealed that solar winds are the cause of gaps in the Van Allen Radiation Belt. Long a controversial subject, a team from the British Antarctic Survey, the University of Iowa and the University of California used the Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite (CRRES) to record incidences of low-frequency waves over the Earth and detected a correlation with increased solar weather activity. Previously thought to be an earthly phenomenon, possibly created by lightning, the gaps in the Van Allen Radiation Belt now seem to be caused by low frequency radio waves upwards of 100Hz emitted from tumultuous, far-reaching solar weather. Called plasmaspheric hiss, these radio waves push electrons into the upper atmosphere, leaving gaps behind in the Belt.
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