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Halloween Solar Storm Nearing Heliopause
PipianJ writes "Various sources are reporting that NASA has been tracking the Halloween solar storms of last year as they head towards the end of the solar system and the beginning of interstellar space, the heliopause, in the near future. In related news, scientists now believe that it was solar storms that ripped water from Mars, causing it to be the dry barren wasteland it is today."
Better train some more terranaughts fast!
The END of the solar system?!!
We're doomed!!!!!
oh just kidding, slashdot has been boring lately and you know it.
Nah. It was socialism.
Before the socialist revolution there, it was a verdant paradise, and the playground of the solar system's wealthy.
Now, it's Cuba without the palm trees.
The Martians are hoping and praying that the NASA landers are harbingers of the new "Yanqui" economy.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Man, everyone makes fun of my handle.. Even in IRC =[
They think it was solar storms. I think it was patents. The Martians kept granting more and more ridiculous software patents until someone was allowed to patent water. And that person then collected it all up and that was the end of Mars as they knew it.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
shut the fuck up newb. when did you get your slashdot account? yesterday? you're a fucking douchebag. you don't know what you're talking about.
:)
Well there's a well reasoned post if I ever saw one.
-- I could tell right away that she was impressed with my HUGE Slashdot Karma.
Just host a million man LAN party at each pole and force everyone to use unshielded computer monitors, the magnetic field from all the electron beam deflector coils just might do it.
(for the astronomers in the crowd) ...would the solar storms "rip" all the water from the planet, and then where would it all go?
"Solar storms". That's what they want you to believe.
But the Fremen know it was the giant Sandworms.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
we need to take out the Sun as soon as possible!
That menace!
A solar storm on Halloween? That means that the planets will align, causing a gravitational pull that would draw in solar wind, detonating in the centre of the earth, forcing red hot maaagma outwards, erupting every volcano in the world!
MOUNT TAPE U1439 ON B3, NO RING
your sig makes me giggle.
mostly because in the days when i had a 'free kevin' sticker on my car, somebody asked me if she could have a kevin.
damn! i was hoping to blame microsoft.
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
In related news, universe discovered to have hot flashes and missing matter.
(ba da bish!)
Next Cosmo: Male scientists say universe is growing at a steady rate with Heliopause. Female scientists disagree and say male scientists are lazy and don't help clean around the observatory and to just shut the hell up anyway. Also in issue: newborn discovers milky way.
(ba da bish!)
Hey hey! I'm here all week, just like the veal.
The baby's fine -- please stop sending business cards.
Well yeah - it doesn't get hit by a meteorite, sucked through a wormhole and spat out near a machine civilisation that repair it and send it back to find The Creator for a good few years yet :)
'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
Not exploring, LIBERATING!
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.