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Halloween Solar Storm Nearing Heliopause

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the ridin'-the-storm-out dept.

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."

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  1. AAAHHHH!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Better train some more terranaughts fast!

  2. The End? by The_Real_Nire · · Score: 3, Funny

    The END of the solar system?!!

    We're doomed!!!!!

    oh just kidding, slashdot has been boring lately and you know it.

  3. Solar Storms Destroyed Mars? by Illbay · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Scientists now believe that it was solar storms that ripped water from Mars, causing it to be the dry barren wasteland it is today."

    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.

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    1. Re:Solar Storms Destroyed Mars? by YOU+LIKEWISE+FAIL+IT · · Score: 2, Funny

      Red planet indeed.

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  4. Not Solar Storms At All by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  5. Re:How Exactly by orthogonal · · Score: 4, Funny

    (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.

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  6. Clearly by tcd004 · · Score: 3, Funny

    we need to take out the Sun as soon as possible!

    That menace!

    1. Re:Clearly by DiscoOnTheSide · · Score: 2, Funny

      WASHINGTON, DC- Homeland Security official Tom Ridge came out publicly today to raise the alert level to red. "We have detailed information that the al-queda terrorist network plans to fly the sun into the white house. We will not allow this to happen. I mean, if anyone is gonna use the sun as a weapon, you can damn sure it's going to be us. In case of a solar attack, you can protect yourself with duct tape and sunscreen."

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  7. oh well by flacco · · Score: 2, Funny
    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.

    damn! i was hoping to blame microsoft.

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  8. Re:in other news... by Paulrothrock · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not exploring, LIBERATING!

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