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NASA's Earth Observatory Shows Solar Flare

Posted by timothy on from the and-the-hair-on-your-chinny-chin-chin dept.

staaktdenarbeid writes "In the past few months I became very impressed with the timeliness and quality of NASA's Earth Observatory. When hurricane Isabel struck, their imagery showed me the biggest latte ever made. Now that Southern California is on fire, it takes only a look from outer space to see how bad the sitation really is. And, today, a massive solar flare showed up on their website as soon as it errupted (so to speak). Each of these pictures is accompanied by detailed technical background. And for the rest of us, they also make perfect screen backgrounds. Very cool."

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  1. Wait? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Isnt this just a reapeat?

  2. Tune going through my head all day by beacher · · Score: 2, Funny

    Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire"... I fell into a burning ring of fire.. I went down down down and the flames crept higher...and it burns burns burns.

    Maybe it's cause the solar flares cause my bald head to dry out and itch and burn. I should know better to go outside without my foil lined cap.
    B

  3. Deja vu by rolocroz · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's really strange to see all this about a solar flare, when this was just published. Weird.

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    1. Re:Deja vu by obsidianpreacher · · Score: 2, Funny

      Perhaps the effects solar flare have already struck, causing disruptions in the space-time continuum, which resulted in the posting of a duplicate story on /. ... then again, maybe not, and it's just your ordinary day here.

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  4. HOLY SHIT!!! by Paladin144 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Watching the video of the solar flare just about made me brown my pants!!

    Uh, if tomorrow's the apocalypse, it's been a good run, y'all. It's been a lotta fun.

    "Since the dawn of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun!" - Mr. Burns.

    Now it looks like the sun will destroy us! I'll shield my computer with my ashen body so that it might survive.

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  5. Re:... if this were Star Trek... by jjeffries · · Score: 2, Funny
    That said, the ground images from the Terra satellites are nothing short of amazing. Since I live in Southern California, it really put a perspective on things.

    yes, you are so very small!

  6. Well shit. by edunbar93 · · Score: 2, Funny

    From the article:
    Today's flare is listed as an X17.2, with an X20 being the most intense flare ever observed in that time. People living in Quebec, Canada, may recall that in March 1989 an X15 solar storm was strong enough to knock out the region's power grid.

    Our ADSL network and our mail server have been really flaky lately (for other reasons, I presume). I don't think that our customers are going to believe us if this causes problems with our network.

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  7. OK, McNealy has to go by mrgeometry · · Score: 2, Funny

    This time McNealy has gone way too far... He really has to go.