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Supercomputer Models Sun's Corona Dynamics

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the waiting-for-the-vogons dept.

gihan_ripper writes "Researchers from San Diego are using supercomputers to accurately predict the shape of the Sun's corona, based on magnetic field data from the photosphere. It is hoped that this model will enable us to predict Coronal Mass Ejections. When CMEs reach the Earth, they produce geomagnetic storms and can wreak havoc with communcations, GPS, and power networks. In the decade or so, the researchers hope to be able to predict CME collisions with the Earth and determine their impact."

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  1. Awesome! by Monkeys!!! · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just hope the next advancement is getting the Earth to dodge the CME. :)

    1. Re:Awesome! by x2A · · Score: 3, Funny

      Why bother when we can LAUNCH NUKES at the incoming CMEs!!!

      Quickly, ready the missiles!

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    2. Re:Awesome! by Rakshasa+Taisab · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, you see... When it gets sufficiently advanced, the earth won't _need_ to dodge the CME.

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  2. Cool. A day off of work! by Skidge · · Score: 3, Funny
    In the decade or so, the researchers hope to be able to predict CME collisions with the Earth and determine their impact.

    Hopefully that means in the future we'll get CME days off from work, since havok-wreaking on communcations, GPS, and power networks would severly limit my productivity.
    1. Re:Cool. A day off of work! by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 3, Funny

      I already get Sun days off.

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  3. Now really! This is ridoculous... by PixelPirate · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...this is clearly a computer that should have come from Sun Microsystems! Honestly, the nerve!

  4. Java? by StarkRG · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ok, fine, fine, it'll enable them to predict things coming out of Sun, but will it tell us if Java will ever be open source?

  5. For a moment... by Clueless+Nick · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...I read the headline as "Supermodel Computes Sun's Corona Dynamics". Blame it on hectic Tuesday. But we would love to see the day, won't we?

    -clueless

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  6. I imagine the hardest part... by artifex2004 · · Score: 2, Funny

    was modelling the bubbles that form on the lemon slice after it's pushed into the bottle.



    (hackwrench, this should have been your comment)

    1. Re:I imagine the hardest part... by HisMother · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's a lime slice, dude.

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  7. Re:What we could do even we could predict it? by helioquake · · Score: 2, Funny

    pardon me about redundant remarks...shhhh, "to bring it closer, you have to bring it closer...".

    That's it. I'm going to sleep.

  8. Coronal Mass Ejections by this+great+guy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are we talking about the corona or Corona ? Because ejections of the second one are disgusting.

  9. Slashdot needs... by Anonymous+Custard · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...fewer articles about "Supercomputer Models Sun's Corona Dynamics"

    and more articles about "Dynamic Super Models Drinking Coronas"

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  10. MODELS?!!? by LordPhantom · · Score: 2, Funny

    andCorona?!? I almost got excited there, until I saw "supercomputer".