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threat than the possibility of some global catastrophe which they couldn’t avert anyhow. , ; I would leak smail unofficial bits of info to those peo- 06 October: Richter 5.3 quake, Adak Island, Aleutian Islands. ple who would dig a bit to get to the bottom line, while 08 October: Richter 5.7 quake, Aleutian Islands. Part of an “earthquake secretly preparing emergency reconstruction centres - swarm?” in the region over the last 11 days in which there have been at least 15 say underground e complete with food, libraries, com- quakes in the range ORES BUDE puters, technology, industry, communications and hous- 12 October: Richter 5.9 quake, Ca ‘pt. ; ; ing to be used by those who might survive what may be 16 October: Richter 5.9 quake, 90 miles st of Adak, Aleutian Islands. coming -whether that be solar core collapse, super solar 17 October: Richter 6.6 quake, 230 mile n orthwest of Bogota, Colombia. storms, asteroid strike, super earthquakes, terrestrial 17 October: Richter 6.5 quake, South Pacific near the Vanuatu islands. core contraction or whatever. 17 October: Richter 5.0 quake, Ain Temouchent, 250 mi. W. of Algiers, Algeria. 17 October: Richter 6.6 quake, Bogota, Columbia. The Sun Is Shrinking - Rapidly! 18 October: Richter 7.2 quake, 185 miles northwest of Bogota, Colombia. Which reminds me, there is a growing debate in vari- ‘ 19 October: Richter 7.2 quake, Bogota, Columbia. ous scientific circles as to whether or not the Sun is 19 October: Volcanic eruption, Bogota, Columbia. actually shrinking at the moment. One of the main pro- 19 October: Richter 6.3, Banda Sea, North of Darwin, Austrafia. ponents of such a theory is astronomer John Eddy of the 20 October: Volcanic eruption, Bog: ia near San Pedro de Uraba Centre for Astrophysics at the High Altitude 22 October: Richter 6.6 quake, 880 miles NE of Wellington, New Zealand. Observatory at Boulder, Colorado in the USA. 22 October: Richter 4.16 quake, Cairo, b Although John has made one rather controversial state- 23 October: Richter 6.7 quake, Papua, New Guinea. ment regarding the young Earth concept’ he has certain- 23 October: Richter 5.3 qu: i i ly attracted a lot of peer support for the work he and his 23 October: Richter 6.7 quake, Caucuses, near seorg! SR. co-worker, Aram Boorazian, have done on the shrink- 24 October: Richter 5.8 quake, 94 mi. W. of Kupang, E. Ni gara, ing solar diameter theory. Indonesia. Eddy and Boornazian‘ researched astronomical data 24 October: Richter 4.8 quake, Udaipur Gadhi 75 mi. E. of Katmandu, Nepal. from as far back as 1567 AD to find that there was no = - . _ : doubt that the diameter of the Sun is smaller now than it Figure 2 - Data on major geophysical activity during first 25 days of October. was then. To their surprise, they found that the US Naval Observatory in Washington had been keeping A th L , -band of high-fi . . 4 dam ad Sie — iy aedesanenall nd records which agreed with their data from at least 1840 AD for- do so during this time. He said they were not concerned about Ward" (see chart, “Solar Diameter Changes 1840-1950"). Their this since it was out of the penetrating UVa and UVb ranges _data showed the Sun has truly been shrinking at the rate of 16 which are the skin cancer and cataract producing frequency Kilometres per year. Were that shrinkage to continue at the ranges. My immediate thought was why does a stable ther- Same linear rate for another 96,000 years, the Sun would no monuclear solar reaction suddenly start emitting a new ‘finger- longer exist. ‘ print’ unless something in the reaction has changed? A sudden On the 31st of July this year, Dr. Robert Jastrow who for- phenomenon like this can herald a major change to the diameter merly headed the prestigious Goddard Institute of Space Studies of the Sun (an imminent core collapse?, a nova?, a joining with © for 20 years and who now directs the George C. Marshall Jupiter to form a binary s star system?) as well as a significant Institute which specialises in defence and environmental issues, afr ae Se he a oe i. ntly. a new " Phish = Naval Observatory in Washington had been keeping Pn are ie ae, cee ee ae a ee | cents a agreed with their data from at least 1840 AD for- do so during this time. He said they were not concerned about Ward" (see chart, “Solar Diameter Changes 1840-1950"). Their this since it was out of the penetrating UVa and UVb ranges _data showed the Sun has truly been shrinking at the rate of 16 which are the skin cancer and cataract producing frequency Kilometres per year. Were that shrinkage to continue at the ranges. My immediate thought was why does a stable ther- Same linear rate for another 96,000 years, the Sun would no monuclear solar reaction suddenly start emitting a new ‘finger- _!onger exist. print’ unless something in the reaction has changed? A sudden On the 31st of July this year, Dr. Robert Jastrow who for- phenomenon like this can herald a major change to the diameter merly headed the prestigious Goddard Institute of Space Studies of the Sun (an imminent core collapse?, a nova?, a joining with © for 20 years and who now directs the George C. Marshall Jupiter to form a binary star system?) as well as a significant Institute which specialises in defence and environmental issues, change to the intensity and frequencies of visible light emissions. After thinking about it for a few min- Figure 3 SQLAR-DIAMETER CHANGES utes, I rang the solar observation unit back 1840-1950 to get more details on the centre frequency and bandwidth of the phenomenon the officer had mentioned; but, as might be expected, they seemed vague and hesitant regarding the question. A fax was sent to me suggesting I check out a couple of ref- erence works? which might be of aid in this matter. I hope someone out there in 1e09 the readership will have more success at 1900 1910 getting this info than I have so far. 1 | Having said this, I must confess that if I were in possession of information that would suggest such massive catastrophic damage to the planet that it might kill the entire planet, I don’t think I would rush out and tell everyone about it - officially, anyway. Why?, you might ask. Because I would consider the certain breakdown of law and order and the destruction of our | { Most reliable measurements cultures and industry by those people Less reliable measurements. «=~. “looking out for number one” as a bigger Figure 3 1930 NEXUS¢13 Most reliable measurements —= Less reliable measurements ~~ DECEMBER-JANUARY '93