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Originally Posted by captain swoop
So the body of work Nasa did for Apollo still exists, and it was important work. How would it be an unsafe area for a scientist if Nasa did all that important work for Apollo?
Can you point me towards the work that Nasa did, surely it can't have been forgotten?
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I am sorry that I can't provide a reference concerning NASA.
I first discovered for myself that there was a correlation between planetary alignments (tidal calculation) and sunspots in about 1964. When I went to the library to see if I could find a mention, the only one I found was a mention of someone who proposed the same thing in the 1800s. Later I saw something on NASA, possibly in Scientific American or somewhere like that. But this would have been in the late 1960s I think. As far as I can remember it said something like that NASA were concerned about the safety of astronauts going to the moon and that the only useful predictive tool they had found was planetary alignments.
I did a search of NASA site for planetary alignments and sunspots ...
http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=pla...ite%3Anasa.gov
There you will find two places that say ...
http://gltrs.grc.nasa.gov/Citations.aspx?id=330 which says:
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Separately, from the daily position data of Venus, Earth, and Jupiter, an 11-year planet alignment cycle is observed to approximately match the sunspot cycle. This observation supports the hypothesis that the resonance and beat between the solar tide cycle and nontidal solar activity cycle influences the sunspot cycle and its varying magnitudes.
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and elsewhere
http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/qa_sun.html#alignment says:
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Is there any relationship between sunspot activity and planetary alignments? There have been studies of planetary effects on solar activity, but no relationship has ever been found.
Dr. Eric Christian
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I think Eric Christian is guessing.