This should give Sun more solidity in both brewing and finances.
But a clear, cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more easily than they do red light.
Without it such a galaxy's outer parts would spin more slowly than the inner ones (just as the outer planets of the solar system move around the sun more slowly than the earth does).
Flying at 235km will allow little margin for error, especially if the Sun becomes more active.
When the Sun becomes more active, this isotope becomes more abundant along with beryllium, another radioactive element.
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He generally supported a greater role for Britain in Europe, whereas Mr. Murdoch and the Sun proved more euro-skeptic.
NASA, America's space agency, in the early 1970s, are receding from the sun slightly more slowly than they should be.
As mentioned, carbon-14 is radioactive, and as the Sun becomes more active (interglacial times) so does the amount of the radioactive carbon-14.
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The dark sunspots are encircled by brighter areas, so when they are plentiful, the sun shines more brightly than when they are sparse.
Here, under the date palms, where the sun shines more than 300 days a year and the scent of coconut oil drifts from the beach, joggers, cyclists, dog walkers and rollerbladers pass by in a constant parade that ends only after nightfall.
"Someone like Sun would have more exposure than anyone else, " says Crawford Del Prete, an analyst with IDC.
The sun has gone more than two years without a significant solar flare.
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Big pharma is certainly getting a little more sun these days--but that doesn't mean that it is out of the woods.
"Sun is doing more and more with being a provider of open source in this enterprise infrastructure space, " says Raven Zachary, an open-source analyst at 451 Group.
Wang Kunxiao, president of Yantai Jereh Oilfield Services Group (Jereh), has become a new billionaire as shares of the Chinese oil and gas service provider he co-founded with fellow billionaire Sun Weijie surged more than 60% this year amid an shale gas equipment boom in China.
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And those cheap boxes increasingly rival the more expensive Sun servers and IBM mainframes.
And then the skies will clear, the prawns will return to the river and the sun will smile once more.
Of course, if Sun succeeds in getting more mileage out of hardware and software, it may end up selling less.
Even Chinese travelers are tired of all the 500-room business hotels, he has found, preferring Le Sun Chine's more intimate scale.
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And those cheap boxes increasingly rival more expensive Sun servers and IBM mainframes with each new version of Microsoft's operating system or Linux clustering software.
During Solar Max or solar maximum, the sun tends to exhibit more sunspots and eruptions, and jettison more solar flares, which send powerful streams of charged particles into the solar system.
What's more, Sun expects to hire the two-year college graduates for approximately 20% less than it pays four-year graduates, and it should be able to train and advance them faster because of their college studies, Deagman says.
The MySQL deal, which is slated to close in the first half of 2008, is a sign that Sun is pushing into more open-source software applications and could even enter the Linux market, the terrain of companies like Red Hat.
Global warming advocates have responded, in turn, that while the sun has indeed been more active in the last half of the century, the actual percentage change in solar irradiance is tiny, and hardly seems large enough to explain measured increases in temperatures and ocean heat content.
It will make its closest approach to the Sun - at a distance of not much more than a million km from the Sun's surface - on 28 November.
And I wouldn't go into the sun on your holidays any more mate, definitely not.
In areas where sunlight is scarce or where culture prevents sun exposure, rickets was more common.
More ominous for Sun, Kraemer thinks the company has missed the boat on data storage.
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