Questions for Dr. L Svalgaard ---- II

[justsomeguy]

The AMS is up now, finally. I understand this was a controversial project. How do you feel about it, will it tell us alot or a little?

[lsvalgaard]

May 16, 2011 18:34:40 GMT justsomeguy said:

The AMS is up now, finally. I understand this was a controversial project. How do you feel about it, will it tell us alot or a little?

what is the AMS?

[justsomeguy]

Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer - it went up on the shuttle today to be attached to the ISS: ams.nasa.gov/Documents/AMS%20in%20The%20News/Space%20Shuttle%20Launch%20to%20Put%20Giant%20Ray%20Detector%20in%20Space.pdf

If you get Science, read here on the controversy: www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6028/408.citation

For others, read here: www.thespacereview.com/article/1844/1

[lsvalgaard]

May 16, 2011 23:57:13 GMT justsomeguy said:

Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer - it went up on the shuttle today to be attached to the ISS: ams.nasa.gov/Documents/AMS%20in%20The%20News/Space%20Shuttle%20Launch%20to%20Put%20Giant%20Ray%20Detector%20in%20Space.pdf

If you get Science, read here on the controversy: www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6028/408.citation

For others, read here: www.thespacereview.com/article/1844/1

As Ting said: "What we will really see nobody knows". If they see something that nobody thought off or knew about, then the mission is worth it. I don't think they will see much antimatter, because we don't observe the gamma rays from matter-antimatter annihilation.

[justsomeguy]

True, but hard to justify a mission of a billlion plus when we are hoping to find something and the thing it was designed to find is unlikely.

Also, Ting changed the design mid-stream greatly increasing cost and angst.

Some suspect this mission was fast-tracked as it allows the space station to attempt to do real science, something at which it has been pretty poor at - more a glorified floating hotel. Also, this mission was not selected by NASA or NSF, it was pushed through congress and became an earmark courtesy of Kaye Bailey Hutchinson, and was actually an old DOE project.

Of course, this could be the best experiment of all time based on the earlier AMS-02 on Mir.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13163026

[bop]

Hey! What the heck is this?!

[justsomeguy]

Probably an optics issue, or it could be a radioactive warning symbol meant for large alien vessels. I vote for the former.

[lsvalgaard]

May 17, 2011 10:53:27 GMT justsomeguy said:

True, but hard to justify a mission of a billlion plus when we are hoping to find something and the thing it was designed to find is unlikely.

Also, Ting changed the design mid-stream greatly increasing cost and angst.

Some suspect this mission was fast-tracked as it allows the space station to attempt to do real science, something at which it has been pretty poor at - more a glorified floating hotel. Also, this mission was not selected by NASA or NSF, it was pushed through congress and became an earmark courtesy of Kaye Bailey Hutchinson, and was actually an old DOE project.

Of course, this could be the best experiment of all time based on the earlier AMS-02 on Mir.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13163026

There is truth in what you say. But it has always been so that money is never spent because of the science, but in support of the aerospace industry or some political goal.

[justsomeguy]

Leif-

Has the 1954 comparison chart on SFI quit updating on your research page?

[lsvalgaard]

May 20, 2011 7:18:59 GMT justsomeguy said:

Leif-

Has the 1954 comparison chart on SFI quit updating on your research page?

No, but the Sun moves slowly enough that it is hard to tell. I'll update tonight.

[justsomeguy]

Dr Svalgaard-

Any chance you could provide a version of this chart that starts in 2011 or so so we can parse out single day and trends more easily?

www.leif.org/research/TSI-SORCE-2008-now.png

[lsvalgaard]

Jun 5, 2011 15:27:43 GMT justsomeguy said:

Dr Svalgaard-

Any chance you could provide a version of this chart that starts in 2011 or so so we can parse out single day and trends more easily?

www.leif.org/research/TSI-SORCE-2008-now.png

There is a high-resolution version at
www.leif.org/research/TSI-SORCE-Latest.png

[skypilot]

Doctor,

Did I miss something recently concerning SC24 & SC25? The networks were buzzing all day about the planet overheating in the next 30 yrs! I thought a reasonable consensus of many of your colleagues as well as yourself was that 24 and perhaps 25 would be very low cycles with a cooler future not warmer. Kevin pardon my putting this here but I am really interested in Leif's opinion on the subject.

Thanks, Skypilot

[justsomeguy]

Without commenting in the LIA question presented here, can you comment on the faculae issue and solar output?

news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/05/did-quiet-sun-cause-little-ice-a.html?ref=hp

Andthe original paper: www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2011/2011GL046658.shtml

[lsvalgaard]

Jun 8, 2011 22:43:34 GMT skypilot said:

Doctor,

Did I miss something recently concerning SC24 & SC25? The networks were buzzing all day about the planet overheating in the next 30 yrs! I thought a reasonable consensus of many of your colleagues as well as yourself was that 24 and perhaps 25 would be very low cycles with a cooler future not warmer. Kevin pardon my putting this here but I am really interested in Leif's opinion on the subject.

Thanks, Skypilot

SC24 will be small. don't know for sure about SC25. Statistically it will be small too, but the early reversal of the polar fields might indicate a larger cycle.