The most powerful solar flare since April has unexpectedly erupted, causing radio blackouts across the sunlit side of the earth at this time. Sunspot group AR9591 unleashed the flare at 12:45PM Eastern Daylight Time today. The explosion also sent a brilliant coronal mass ejection into space. However, the CME is not heading directly toward earth, although it might touch us on Sunday or Monday.

The flare emitted in April was the most powerful ever seen. The current flare is still under measurement, but it is an X5 flare, the strongest type observed.

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On June 13, 1999, a crop formation was discovered at Chilbolton that represented a Sierpenski Sieve, a type of fractal that is used in the construction of Fractal antennas.

The formation appeared close to the Chilbolton Radio Telescope, in the same area that a recent schematic of the 1975 Arecibo transmission and an apparent face have appeared. (See Unknowncountry.com news links below.)

Fractal antennas are a recent innovation that allows much more precise tuning than normal antennas. The Sierpenski Sieve, in particular, is a fractal design used as a monopole over an infinite ground plane.
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Linda Moulton Howe will present a one hour special tonight on Dreamland about the developing crop circle situation in England. The special will cover the Milk Hill fractal and the two Chilbolton formations.

Noted crop circle researcher Charles Mallett will be her first guest, discussing the new formations live with Linda and Whitley.

Her second guest will be Paul Vigny, Director of the http://www.interalpha.net/customer/pvigay/,Independent Research Center for Unexplained Phenomena in Hampshire, England, who was the first person to recognize the relationship between the Chilbolton schematic and the 1975 Arecibo radio telescope transmission.
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Astronomers from the University of California in Berkeley have discovered the first solar system other than our own where multiple planets travel in circular orbits around a star.

More than 70 planets have been found outside our solar system, but most travel in tight, erratic orbits around their stars, meaning that their surfaces would be too hot to harbor life as we know it.
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