Scene from CLIMATE:
EXT. - HAWAIIAN LUAU
Drums POUND louder as Hina and the hula dancers arrive on stage. The dancers, now including Kalei, form a circle. The musicians stop playing.
HINA
On this sacred spring day when dark and light are in balance, please join us in a special prayer for the earth.
EXT. - HAWAIIAN LUAU
Drums POUND louder as Hina and the hula dancers arrive on stage. The dancers, now including Kalei, form a circle. The musicians stop playing.
HINA
On this sacred spring day when dark and light are in balance, please join us in a special prayer for the earth.
A single ukulele accompanies Kalei dancing the hula as she stands in the center of the circle, dressed as the earth. She begins to wobble. The musicians join in and the dancers dance in spiral motions, like waves of energy, in rainbows of color. As the dancers move about her, she wobbles less and less until she spins in perfect balance. As Kalei moves, the audience CLAP in tune, louder and louder until they erupt in unison. The stage suddenly goes dark.
Fierce solar magnetic storm barely missed Earth in 2012
By Robert Sanders, Media Relations | March 18, 2014
By Robert Sanders, Media Relations | March 18, 2014
BERKELEY —Earth dodged a huge magnetic bullet from the sun on July 23, 2012.According to University of California, Berkeley, and Chinese researchers, a rapid succession of coronal mass ejections — the most intense eruptions on the sun — sent a pulse of magnetized plasma barreling into space and through Earth’s orbit. Had the eruption come nine days earlier, when the ignition spot on the solar surface was aimed at Earth, it would have hit the planet, potentially wreaking havoc with the electrical grid, disabling satellites and GPS, and disrupting our increasingly electronic lives.
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"Around the sun
Some say
There's gonna be the new hell
Some say
It's still too early to tell
Some say
It really ain't no myth at all""
- Jack Johnson, All at Once