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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (40106)	10/24/2003 4:20:36 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 74559

KJC, re: strongest ejection of solar material since something like 1849 Wow! Unfortunately it is quite cloudy here, as it often is when the lights do come out. It will be very interesting to see what happens to all the modern technology when this hits! Here is strange and somewhat sad biography I picked up recently, about an obsessed Norwegian scientist named Kristian Birkeland. He did major pioneering research work on the Northern Lights, and was one of the principle founders of what became Norsk Hydro. He eventually went mad as the result of over-using some kind of prescribed drug, and shot himself. The Northern Lights by Lucy Jago amazon.com

To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (40106)	10/24/2003 12:17:40 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

<Anything that relies on electric (or electromagnetic forces) can be affected. > Is this a warning to ignore any unusual thoughts we might have during the solar storm? Maybe cellphones affect thinking too and give our brains a turbo-charge. They say intelligence increases with cellphone usage. Studies have shown over the years that cellphone users are more intelligent than people without cellphones and that CDMA2000 phragmented photon cyberphone users are more intelligent than analogue phone users. Not only that, but the more people use them, the more intelligent they are. People not used to statistics shouldn't assume that therefore they themselves can become as smart as those using cyberphones by buying one and using it all day. Actually, now that I think about it, using a cyberphone would make somebody more intelligent. I was only kidding before but now realize I've outsmarted myself because having Google available, one can know everything instantly. And knowledge is a prelude to intelligence. A necessary but not sufficient condition, which is why education is such a con-job; people think that learning a bunch of stuff will make them more intelligent. Now I'm confused and don't know whether the world will get smarter with the solar storms or get fried brains. I'll wear a metal hat for a couple of weeks, with a little propellor on top which would tell me when the strength of the solar wind by the rate of rotation. Hmmm, I could have a little generator on the propellor and get electricity to power my cyberphone and a torch which I could use to take photos of the Northern Lights. I can imagine the well-heeled Japanese tourists, all lined up with metal hats, propellors on top, taking photos of the Northern Lights with their 3 megapixel digital camera cyberphones, with the generators on the propellors powering the cyberphone and camera flash. I dare say a lot of people use a flash to take a photo of the Northern Lights. Mqurice