As for the solar magnetic spots ‘fizzling’ out – that just corroborates the notion that sunspots are not generated internally by the Suns magnetic field, as currently thought. Magnetic field changes accompany sunspots because the impacting asteroids are magnetized, as are the main belt asteroids. They both were ejected from Jupiter in a hot jet which shot from an enormous impact crater on Jupiter which is now marked by the Great Red Spot. As the hot gases left the planet and cooled, they formed low density, hydrated bodies while in free flight which resemble cinders. There was sufficient iron and nickel in them that caused them to be magnetized by the magnetic field of Jupiter as they coalsced.

The solar corona is heated by numerous smaller bodies that continually fall toward the Sun and burn up. This is obvious when one studies the temperature distribution, which is highly non-uniform (non-thermal).

Some relationships of coronal holes and long duration high speed solar winds in declining phases of solar cycles. Right now, that co-rotating Coronal Hole is all we got going on.
It’s not really putting out all that much, is it?

The current 3 yrs will have 5 heartbeats with one Solar Polar field coronary on Dec 05. Looking at the http://www.nwra-az.com/spawx/ssne24.html
for SC23, that’s where the sunspots failed to level out and headed down to zero where we now watch the Sun in a comatose state.

Don’t see anything else like it in the Solar Polar field ekg., that Dec 2005 timeframe spike.
Somebody mentioned elsewhere a late 2005 dropoff in another data chart.
Where would that be?

Your’s, two underlying sinsusoids bifurcating is comprehensible. I look forward to any future insight.

Paul Shanahan (11:34:16) :
Where are you getting your stats from? The last figures I saw said males make up 51% and females 49%. That puts males in the majority, but not by much … ”

Ric, I think you will find that I didn’t pen this, so your post is out of context. I was actually referring to this sentance to post this response:

2% of 6.68 billion people is a lot of people not having sex… Unlucky, Heh heh! :)

Here are a couple of links (the latter with a definite axe to grind, so take w/graino’salt). Both claim that the current birthrate is 120 males to 100 females.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5953508

http://www.euthanasia.com/china-ra.html

There are a bunch of other hits as well, but I don’t have the time to run them down at the moment. One acknowledged the difference but points to hep-B rather than policy. Others concentrate on abortion practices and even suggest a certain (much smaller) degree of infanticide, but one can’t really determine the numbers as the emotions are running too high–much like in the GW debate. There’s a nasty “new word” making the rounds, though: “gendercide”.

Paul Shanahan (11:34:16) :
Where are you getting your stats from? The last figures I saw said males make up 51% and females 49%. That puts males in the majority, but not by much … ”

The 51/49% figures are numbers I’ve heard since childhood along with claims that males have a higher mortality which brings things a bit closer. The reason for the difference has been suggested to be that male sperm are smaller (a female geneticist once kidded that the Y chromosome was a horrible little runt) and hence can swim faster and get to the egg sooner. Boys will be boys, even when they’re haploid.

As for Evan’s comment, I’m sure that’s due to the one child policy with parents aborting female fetuses to get a male heir. It will make for some interesting China watching in the coming decades.

Get the feeling 23 will fade from memory before 24 signs the lease? I’d be studying the Corona or IMF or something besides spots just now for my next grant proposal.

2% of 6.68 billion people is a lot of people not having sex… Unlucky, Heh heh! :)

Yeah, and natural causes might be eradicated by medical science in our lifetime. Don’t count on it, grasshopper.

“That puts males in the majority, but not by much …”

Hardly important at all, except when its time to marry. China is known for its quality reporting of sensitive stats.

There’s a new SC23 spot showing this morning. It just keeps going and going and going…

Time to reset the spotless days clock to zero.