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For 45 years,i never really made it a habit,or spent much time trying to look at the sun and whenever i did,it was too bright to look at it for more than a few seconds and what really needs to be done is to view photographs and film taken of the sun taken years apart and taken from beyond the earths atmosphere and thats how we'll be able to see and know if somethings really going on with everyones nuclear mother up there in outer space...
Originally posted by resistancia
reply to post by blocula
I have been looking at the sun for 55 years....I know what it looks like.
It was not what I usually see.
Originally posted by mab22
In a sunny day i can't even look at the clouds anymore let alone the sun ,
here's a picture of the sun i took one year ago,
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it's strange that back then i didn't know anything about solar flares or any sun issues however i do remember feeling that the sun had become stronger/brighter with the passage of years
obviously this picture was taken with my eyes closed
Originally posted by JohnJetson
The problem with the OP in this thread is that the evidence you are putting forth about the sun's brightness is anecdotal. Unless you have a scientific way to measure brightness, you are not going to convince anyone who is approaching this from an objective angle. Out of curiosity, I asked my dad, who has blue eyes and has always been somewhat sensitive to the sun, and he said it actually looked a little less bright to him lately. He has been playing a lot of tennis outside in the past few years, so that is possibly one explanation. My mom, on the other hand, did say that it actually looks brighter to her. She used to sunbathe quite often in the past, but not as much recently. To me, it looks the same as it has for the past 30 years, so it is going to take something more compelling than an opinion to convince me.
Originally posted by blocula
reply to post by shortsticks
Then theres the most vital possibility of all,to explain the suns apparent brightening,the fact that the sun might be starting to expand into a red giant and if it is,its goodbye to everything we've ever done and aloha to all we know,forever and ever those thing will just be gone and just imagine if humanity had only spent the last hundred years not desigining ever more effective ways to kill eachother off and engineered massive collective efforts and trillions of dollar towards weapons of war and genocide and had instead focused on working together with the same drive and determination,maybe we could have been able to save at least some of humanity,who would have than possibly been able to go to another world and begin again,far away from the unstoppable expanding red giant sun...
You and i,everything around us,everything within us and even the earth itself,were all born from out of a star we call the sun and someday all will return to her nuclear womb...
Originally posted by shortsticks
...part of me that simply can't fathom that all the world and all that it offers now can soon be gone. I mean all the beautiful music and literature and art and all the scientific advancement. But so many cultures of civilizations of before have also had their limelight and also had their countless untold treasures. Most of all that has been buried in one form or fashion, so to me it's not hard to imagine the same happening today. Besides, when we have so many toxic substances to our earth in existence, and toxic minds, why shouldn't our solar system and earth in particular look upon our condition and need to remove it? I wouldn't treat anything but a cancerous part of my body as something other than that which needs to be removed. Do hope my ramblings are somewhat coherent.
We never look at the sun,because we are only able to see the sun through the earths atmosphere and as the earths atmosphere changes,the suns apparent brightness and perceived color seems to change as well...
Originally posted by CaticusMaximus
Could be Ozone depletion, but that wouldnt account for the subtle color changes, I believe.
I never really tried looking at the sun,its always been too bright to look at.I just gave it the usual and casual fraction of a second glance that most everyone else does every so often and so i've never noticed anything different about its brightness and color.But i do know that earths atmosphere is changing,which is making the sun appear somewhat differently and i also know that my eyes are getting older as well and so even my bedside lamp light seems brighter now when i turn it on in the dark,than it did when i was younger...
Originally posted by resistancia
reply to post by blocula
I have been looking at the sun for 55 years....I know what it looks like.
It was not what I usually see.
Originally posted by prophetboy12
Amazing that the same time that the earth is re-calibrating the sun is doing the same. Many prophecy's speak of the sun shining like a thousand suns. Solar cycle 24 a powerful cycle. Powerful because it is the completion of a two 12 solar cycles. An Alpha cycle and an Omega cycle. the beginning and the end. The soul will also be affected by this cycle. Every time there is a heavy CME bombardment the sun of even pressure, the earth's core will reflect that energy by the acceleration of earthquakes. Cycles are identified by the date and time. This years cycle will become more intense as it is reflecting the energy of angles. The closer it gets to 12/21/12 which is the 12:00 line of beginning and completion the more you will see and feel the intensification of everything. For instance sunspot 1450 now has a complex which could result in M-class flares. If it can produce M-class flares it can also produce X-class flares. Watch how these flares and activity on the sun heat up the closer it gets to the 12th of each month. Did you know that between the 9.0 and 7.4 earthquake that for a week the sun sent out a radioactive signal of 180 Mhz. Hmmmm 180, 180 degrees, take a 180, change your ways and go the other direction. A warning. Time is short we think in terms of human and human existence and we are not thinking in terms of the soul's existence. We are so concerned with our human lives that we are forgetting the more important spiritual ( soul) life. The planet has a destiny too..
Originally posted by blocula
Why does my bedside lamp light seem much more brighter now when i turn it on in the dark,than it did when i was younger? The light bulbs wattage remains the same,but my eyes are getting older...
Originally posted by blocula
reply to post by Pigraphia
I think its a perfect example and a very meaningful one.Becasuse the lamp light never use to hurt my eyes,when i turned it on in the dark when i was younger and now it does hurt my eyes and it does seem much brighter now that i am older and so my eyes are also more aged.The lamplight and the sunlight are both emitting photons into my eyes and thats why they are a reasonable comparison.The invisible air that i see the lamplight filtered through,is the same invisible air that i see the sunlight filtered through...