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Tsunami Spotted on the Surface of the Sun
BigBadBus writes "The BBC is reporting that NASA's twin spacecraft designed to obtain stereo images of the Sun have recorded a Solar Tsunami. The feature includes a fascinating movie of the images captured."
No sound? Lame...
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...we can't find one on Earth in time to warn people about it.
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I hope no one was hurt.
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I missed an opportunity to surf the greatest wave ever?
That movie is pretty cool, but only if you use a lot of imagination, which defeats the point of the movie (except for scientists).
I always like movies of the Sun a lot better when they accurately show how gauzy the Sun actually is, because it's really a ball of gas, not as solid as pictures like that show. Some color, and some of the stars beyond shining through, all make these movies of the Sun hanging in space look a lot cooler, and a lot less like peering through a microscope.
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Oh shit, how long until the wave reaches us?!?
You just got troll'd!
I don't mean to be picky, but this is from the front page:
BigBadBus writes "The BBC is reporting that NASA's twin spacecraft designed to obtain stereo images of the Sun have recorded the first Solar Tsunami."
Did you mean "the first footage of a solar tsunami", perhaps?
The first solar tsunami ever? Good thing we had the space craft in place to capture it then!
I'm gonna wax up my board and be ready for the next one.
This ain't rocket surgery.
Let's go mega-surfin' Dude! It will be rad(iation)! I'll bring the 3.0x10^8 SPF sunblock, you bring the Unobtainium surfboards, and Cowboy Neil will bring the beer.
just make sure you bring the sun block!
Your momma is so fat when she steps into the ocean her ripples cause a tsunami ... ON THE SUN
If it isn't the HOTTEST thing ever, I don't know what is.
The sun is very hot except at night.
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Ok, did anyone else see these dark grey "Reply to This" and "Parent" buttons start appearing in Slashdot [v.D1] sometime in the last few minutes, or am I just tripping again???
This might be an event on some otherwise quiet planet. But given the Sun itself is a gigantic ball of freakin' fire, with solar flares and enough UV to cause cancer in people on other planets, a bit of a wave doesn't seem quite as impressive.
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First, did it come out of Uranus?
I believe Solar Tsunami is a bit of a misnomer. As tsunami literally translates to 'harbor wave' a more accurate name would be Taiyounami or perhaps Ra-tasm.
It's the corporations that control the puppet president Bush! War for oil and we are destroying the sun with our greed and selfishness. I'm pretty sure that ANY act of nature that is deemed bad by the *consensus* is somehow Bush's fault, right? I know he personally caused Katrina and continental drift.
I better buy another hybrid before the sun is destroyed!
Now I'm guessing that someone who stridently rails against all forms of censorship will mod this -1 overrated or -1 troll.
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If you call Cisco for support on a faulty device they may claim cosmic radiation caused the problem. (I only mention this as it has happened to me before).
No more stories about solar flares and tsunamis please! You are just giving tech support more excuses!
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And what did this administration do? George Bush hates Sun people.
No sound? Lame...
The sound was supressed because it sounds like a gigantic Fart.
Video seems to be /.ed already.
Nice work you bandwidth hogs.
dude, you shoulda been here yesterday ;-)
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Do they see any concentric circles emanating from a glowing red dot?
Typically concentric circles are followed by at least a row of little human figures.
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Because that was your only chance. NASA is pulling the original film in order to re-master it digitally and enhance the effects and will be re-releasing it to theaters just before Christmas.
A spokesperson for NASA said "We have much better CGI now than we did in March and we feel that the original film, while a classic, does not fully express the breadth and extent of the whole solar experience for our audience."
Initial plans call for multiple DVD releases to coincide with the theatrical release of the film, with pricing expected to be $19.99 for the DVD, $49.99 for the Collector's Edition Boxed Director's Set and $299.99 for BluRay.
Freaking tsunami of fire!? That is the most awesome thing I've ever heard of. If I don't see a movie in the next two years with a kick-ass tsunami of fire clobbering people... I'm going to be really sad. Steven Spielberg - this is right up your alley. I'm counting on you.
P.S. Don't try and give me some fireball or some weak wave crap either. I want to see a tsunami of fire roll over a city. That is win.
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
So we know that solar flares can cause massive disruptions to satellites and other things here on Earth. Does anyone know what a tsunami that propagates over the entire surface of the Sun will do to the planet and things in orbit?
You want Sun? You got Sun! http://www.nasa.gov/mov/171957main_Roll_In_FOUR_Limb_Flare_Vid1.mov
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...or is the idea of a tsunami on the surface of the sun the most awesome thing ever?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/
The scientific facts in this movie are... simply not facts. But the visuals, man what beautiful sun images this movie has.
We are Turing O-Machines. The Oracle is out there.
Ali G: Do you ever think man will walk on the sun?
Buzz Aldrin: No. The sun is too hot. It is not a good place to go to.
Ali G: What happens if they went in winter when the sun is cold?
But if matter is the medium and the "medium is the message", then then isn't matter the message? Does the message really matter?
;^)
Also, if the solar tsunami happened and no one heard it, did it make a sound?
Enquiring minds want to know!
And wouldn't a tsunami put out the sun?
I would have worded it "Tsunami Tspotted on the Tsurface of the Tsun".
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You know, if you stare at it head-on, it'll burn your eyes out...
Your comment about coastlines is actually more relevant than not.
Just like the coastline depends on the measuring stick you use, the concept of a surface depends on some measuring stick in Cartesian space.
Just look at "The Fractal Geometry of Nature" by Benoit B. Mandelbrot to see more info.
The surface of the sun is more of a 3D+ construct since it cannot be precisely defined.
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So you can get a real close look, like Galileo did with the early telescope.
Just tell somebody to knock them out of your hands what the hair on the back of your head starts to smoke.
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