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I wonder if it hums to any tune? Did ya know the sun sings?

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/singing/

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No i didn't know the sun had a ring! I guess i'm not too old to learn, only problem is, it's more exciting to learn at my age now than it was when i SHOULD have been learning this stuff.

uhmm. Wait.. I don't think they even knew this stuff back then!

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Nowadays we have the Alien Abduction/Science of the Universe Channel, formerly known as the Nazi/American Civil War Channel and most commonly known as the History Channel!

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lol, yeah, i have those, er, i mean the History Channel..

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Odd how much it seems to concentrate on that sort of stuff now, isn't it? Originally at least it tended to concentrate on history, now its just alien abduction stories... hmmm, what's on it now? Ahhhh, it seems to be about the moon Europa! A rather cold place...

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I got sick for about a month 3 years ago.. didn't leave the house... much.. I LEARNED MORE ABOUT HITLER AND NAZI GERMANY in one month than any human needs...

course i forgot most of it.. but...

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Really? Just about every single time I have it on nowadays its about aliens abducting people or stellar phenomena.

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I must have been "lucky" ... they do seem to shift the focus.....

I have participated in "market studies" / focus group for a local company.... one about BEER tasting which was right up my alley... and another was about programming for an UNKNOWN channel... it was either the History or the Discovery Channel...so I'm quite sure they do the same things politicians do... put their finger in the air so to speak to see which way the wind is blowing...

I don't watch anything too much.. but being a captive audience for a while is enlightening...

by the way nice to see you're back posting.. it seemed you were absent for a while.. or we just weren't interested in the same things..

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I've not been the most active poster the last few days. I had some stuff to do. I've posted on a few threads but not much in that time, probably just not on the same threads. Yeah, they probably use focus groups and the like. I tend to have the History Channel on here 24/7, even when I'm not paying attention. A definite trend, particularly on Tuesdays, is tending towards general alien phenomena.

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The Learning Channel used to have a lot of science, paleo, space studies, history, etc on it. Now it's all self help, home decor, and design junk.

That's ok since we have Discovery and the Science Channels but sometimes i miss the old programming on The Learning Channel.

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Yeah, I miss the old TLC as well :(

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It may well be that the channel was purchased by FOX.

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Oh Lord, are you for real!?

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Doh N2N, I think you misread what I said or you mistyped. The sun doesn't have a ring, it sings! Like Pink Floyd!

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/singing/

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Set the controls for the heart of the sun?

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Careful with that ax Eugene....

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Wish you were here?

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I think it's hims in Bmin

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hymns?

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