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Today's Solar Flare
An anonymous reader writes "X1-class solar flare today (13:30 Universal Time). Still the SOHO spacecraft offers some of the all-time greatest snapshots anywhere on the web. The flare's residual activity would be shown white and at around 9 o'clock position here. There are 3 major categories, each 10 times stronger than the next: X-class flares are big; they are major events that can trigger planet-wide radio blackouts and long-lasting radiation storms. M-class flares are medium-sized; they generally cause brief radio blackouts that affect Earth's polar regions. C-class flares are small with few noticeable consequences here on Earth. If it were headed towards Earth, arrival is usually 48-72 hrs later (this is not coming this way). Future Mars astronauts should take a lead umbrella because one radiation day on Mars is like living at 70,000 feet on Earth." Nature is pretty.
also on the list of greatest snapshots on the web, that picture of the guy holding his butt hole wide open. by greatest i mean most likely to make you want to kill yourself.
I guess I forgot how big that sun is. Goddamn!
Too big to fail? Does that make me to small to succeed?
....jerry falwell comes out with the inevitable "god caused this solar flare because of our homosexual degenerates" ?
j.falwell is obviously a closet homosexual whose idea of embedded development is shoving a wafer PC board up his ass and then sucking off his university professor.
Please try to use complete English sentences when attempting to communicate.
you're an idiot but thanks for playing!