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Know we the flesh is fleeting. The things men count great are nothing to us. The things we seek are not of the body but are only the perfected state of the soul. Long, long ago, I cast off my body. Wandered I free through the vastness of ether, circled the angles that hold man in bondage. Know ye, O man, ye are only a spirit. The body is nothing. The Soul is the All. Let not your body be a fetter. Cast off the darkness and travel in Light. Cast off your body, O man, and be free, truly a Light that is ONE with the Light.

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 TODAY'S SPACE WEATHER

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June 11-12, (midnight) 1998 LASCO C2

DETAIL OF THE DAY

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Solar/Magnetic/Quake Update - 6.12.98 - 2200 UTC

Flare activity decreased some today in the strength of any one event, but increased in the number of events with several C-Class events reported. The Xray baseline seems to be on the rise as well which could be related to the return of old region 8226... now renumbered as 8243 and thought to be the source of yesterday's M-Class event. Region 8240 grew today and is becoming magnetically more complex. Xray looping and coronal surging continues strongly on the NE [approaching] limb in the general area of approaching region 8243. C-Class flare activity is forecast to continue, and there is a 20% chance of an isolated M-Class flare event from either 8240 or 8243 during the next 72 hours.

The geomagnetic field was unsettled to minor storm. The minor storm conditions were brief and mainly reported at higher latitudes. The SEC forecast calls for continued unsettled conditions with possible periods of active conditions... again mainly at higher latitudes. Electron levels went through a strong flux last night coinciding with the magnetic activity but have since stabilized and are remaining below the "event" threshold for the time being.

Quake activity increased again today, with mostly light to moderate quakes occurring in the Pacific "ring of fire" regions. One exception was a moderate 4.9 in the south Atlantic ocean between South America and Africa. The swarming at Mammoth Lakes continued, but at a decreased pace over the past few days... which matches the patterns of previous swarm activity at Long Valley Caldera. The 3.8 off Vancouver Island was well off the northern portion of the Island. The two moderate quakes in southern Alaska were near the Cook Inlet approximately 80-100 miles west-southwest of Anchorage.

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 HAVE WE REALLY FIGURED OUT WHAT THE SUN IS?

One of the biggest embarrassments of 20th-century science -- the sun's refusal to emit nearly as many neutrinos as physicists say it should -- inched closer to a possible solution last week when experimenters reported strong new evidence that these weird elementary particles, long thought to be perfectly massless, may have a small amount of heft after all. If neutrinos indeed have mass, the story goes, they can change "flavor" on their flight from the center of the Sun, eluding the electronic snares earthlings have been setting. The neutrinos wouldn't be missing, but traveling in disguise. continue

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