in Expanded Universe.Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called... If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!
I posted a story about the current solar minimum recently. There was one reason to hope for the best that I didn't mention. The current extended solar minimum was showing signs that it was progressing into Cycle 24 and having left behind Cycle 23. This is determined by the polarity of the sunspots. The 11 year (or more!) cycle is actually the period in which the sun swaps magnetic polarity. In other words, every 11 years or so the sun's north pole becomes the south pole and vice versa. Even though the sun has been very quiet, recent sunspots had been showing the polarity of Cycle 24 seeming to indicate that the sun was at least progressing towards the end of the current minimum. Unfortunately today Spaceweather.com indicates that a new sunspot is struggling to appear, but it has Cycle 23 polarity.
Interestingly enough, it's not only the sun that has been playing funny games with polarity reversal.A sunspot is struggling to emerge at the circled location. The magnetic polarity of the proto-sunspot identifies it as a member of old Solar Cycle 23. Credit: SOHO/MDI
This has led various conspiracy theory nuts to conclude the world is about to end. It tends to get mixed in with the whole Mayan Calendar 2012 thing.Our planet's magnetic field reverses about once every 200,000 years on average. However, the time between reversals is highly variable. The last time Earth's magnetic field flipped was 780,000 years ago, according to the geologic record of Earth's polarity.
In 2012 the next polar reversal will take place on earth... Scientifically this can only be explained by the fact that the earth will start rotating in the opposite direction, together with a huge disaster of unknown proportions. In my books I reveal the immense cataclysm that is going to torment the earth in the near future.Of course, if he were right, then the sun would have to start rotating in the opposite direction every 11 years. Fortunately, it's probable that we aren't about to experience a change any time soon.
I challenge you to say this in one breath
Courtesy of the North Korean News Agency. I know I quoted them recently, but they produce such priceless gems that I really love those guys. What wordsmiths! Here's another.The Songun idea is the revolutionary one indicating a scientific way of enabling the people to concentrate efforts on military affairs and to increase the revolutionary armed forces in accordance with such practical requirements of the present era and the revolutionary development and to victoriously forge ahead with the struggle of the popular masses for independence in the fierce confrontation with the imperialists.
President Kim Il Sung... Looking round the materials on those revolutionary activities with deep emotion, he said that the land of Kangwon Province has turned into a land of bliss for people under the wise leadership of the President and his meticulous care, underscoring the need to repay the great benevolence of the President with loyalty.It makes me feel like I really can jump into that time-machine I always dreamed about, even if I can only go back to the 1950s.
