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undulated and danced on top the Earth’s atmosphere below them.  The green part of the river expanded and grew past its invisible banks, like a time-lapse video of a flood, appearing to wash over the whole atmosphere.  Most of it appeared over China.
    “Wait, that’s not the Aurora Australis, is it?  Hold on.  What are we looking at?  Isn’t that China?  How is this possible?”  Melanie asked.  Her face was contorted in an exaggerated expression of both awe and concern.  “That’s nowhere near the poles.”
    “I believe we have a bigger problem than you thought.” R.T. expressed what was on both of their minds.

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    Dr. Carrington Reid
    10:00 P.M.
    Salt Lake City, Utah
     
    Dr. Carrington Reid was predestined for this work, or at least it seemed this way.  Like him, both his father and grandfather were solar astrophysicists, and were fans of Dr. Richard Carrington, an amateur astronomer who recorded the flare event on September 2 nd 1859 that bore his name.  He was such a devotee that his father even named him Carrington.  His father would take him all over the world to exotic locations and observatories to study solar flares, pulses, and coronal mass ejections or CME’s.  Carr, as his father often called him, loved the excitement of the travel, but most of all, he loved the science.  Exploring science today was as the New World was to explorers Perry and Livingston; full of all the thrill and adventure of making new discoveries. 
    His interest in the science and the thrill of new discoveries was indeed part of his genetic makeup, but his passion and drive were born from a desire to prepare humanity for a much anticipated cataclysmic event.  Reluctantly, he was the biggest cheerleader and promoter of his own discoveries and theories, many of which were not shared by his peers, due to their eschatological bent.  His actions earned him a bit of a reputation , most of which was not good.   He didn’t care, as long as he achieved his goals of preparing the world and providing ample warning of the next Carrington-sized CME.  This was why he had formed the CME Research Institute.
    His thinking was that, if he brought in other scientists and students, who shared a common focus of study, coronal mass ejections and solar flares and their deleterious effect on Earth’s inhabitants, they would be able to learn more about the science and continually warn the world so it could prepare for the inevitable.  Science was the necessary part of CMERI’s mission, and it included creating new advances in notifications when new solar flare or CME events occurred, as well as simply making new discoveries.
    Dr. Reid’s first notable discovery was on April 9, 2008, when he recorded an amazing cartwheel CME.    He remembered it as if it was yesterday.  A billion-ton cloud of gas launched itself off the surface of the sun and then did a cartwheel.  It pirouetted out of the sun’s limb in full view of the Kit Peak National Observatory in Arizona, first doing a cartwheel and then a backflip; a gymnastic routine, which had never been witnessed before in recorded history. 
    He was the first scientist to show that the magnetic flux tube expelled from the sun began to heal itself, a magnetic reconnection also a new first in recorded science.  The data recorded from their Solar Dynamics Observatory or SDO, and from several satellites, along with their twelve scientists and students from the local university formed the basis for his Institute in Salt Lake City, and the many discoveries he had made since.
    Each event or discovery created an opportunity to share publicly, with warnings attached through his website, social media, and press relations.  The press loved him because of his apocalyptic predictions and his “out there” theories. 
    Dr. Reid was also the first scientist to hypothesize that the Earth would experience a Carrington sized CME within the next ten years.  Many of his peers pilloried his theories