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1. The sun is around 4.5 billion years old and will remain in its current state for about another 5 billion before doing the whole temperamental star -> red giant -> white dwarf thing. We can equate this to going a bit senile (aged, say, 45 in human years) so the sun is still in its very early twenties.

   This explains the phenomenon perfectly, as you'll see in a joint article in next week's New Scientist and Stereotyping Older People magazines.

   14 Nov 2005, 19:46

2. Ah, I see. It all makes much more sense now. How come none of the websites I looked at told me that?

   14 Nov 2005, 19:53

3. Cos it's only very recent research that only a very few have been given access to. I heard about it through my work in the Solar Physics group on my project. I can only assume that Mr Young has people on the inside ;)

   14 Nov 2005, 20:13

4. Nice.

   You mean to say that Simon is pregnant?

   14 Nov 2005, 20:21

5. sssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh! That's not being unveiled for another 9 months!

   14 Nov 2005, 20:46

6. Where's the 'paranoia' emoticon when you need it?

   14 Nov 2005, 22:40