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Massive Explosion On the Sun
Endoflow2010 sends word of an enormous eruption that occurred on the Sun this morning. Phil Plait describes it thus:
"What you’re seeing here is a solar flare (an enormous explosion of pent-up magnetic energy) coupled with a prominence (a physical eruption of gas from the surface). This event blasted something like a billion tons of material away from the Sun. Note the size of it, too: while it started from a small region on the Sun’s surface, it quickly expanded into a plume easily as big as the Sun itself! I’d estimate its size at well over a million kilometers across."
The attached video is well worth watching.
Of course, it is a nuke !!
Here comes October 21st! Run for the hills! It is a sign, I tell you, a sign! MOMMY!!!
That's what it looks like in the video...
... it's just passing gas.
Those are all amazing videos though.
Dude, the sun IS a massive explosion.
Could events like this be where the matter came from for building the planets?
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
...but it's a little hard to tell since the whole thing doesn't fit in the video frame.
...the future crusty old bastards are already drinking the Kool-Aid.
Obviously an event of this magnitude had significant impact of the valuation of BitCoin. The powers that be have decided to make the whole financial model open source and inundated the markets with billions of BitCoins. Unprepared vendors have now fallen back to the Russian ruble until the solar explosions subside.
Can someone please post a link to a video that doesn't require a fucking plug-in like it's 1995?
Thanks.
I can't wait to see what effect this has on those electronic things in orbit..
vos nescitis quicquam, nec cogitatis quia expedit nobis ut unus moriatur homo pro populo et non tota gens pereat.
Is that the actual speed or is this video in fast playback (or whatever it's called)
You need to see both to get a fuller appreciation of the scale, but the 2nd video in the article is more impressive, IMHO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpkXhlPIINQ
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Before you watch the video PLEASE find a way to do so without looking at it directly. A pinhole viewer (http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/pinhole3.html) will allow you to view your AVI files without suffering damage to your eyesight.
This video is speed up- the video contains about 12 hours of footage. Note also that given where the sun is in the solar cycle we can likely expect more similar events soon. If any of them end up heading more directly in the direction of Earth it could interfere badly with electronics, especially in satellites. But we haven't gotten a really bad flare since the 19th century, but then there were events that even interfered with telegraph lines. And our current electronics are a lot more sensitive than stuff they had back then.
IDNRTA (I did not read the article), is this video in actual time or some kind of sped up? If it's actual speed then those flames were moving insanely fast. Regardless of that aspect, they travel a very far distance.
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of how insignificant we are compared to the universe. The sun could kill us all with a single fart.
A billion tons is nothing when you're looking at things on this type of scale.
The Taliban have blown up the Sun.
I know...solar prominence...etc....but damned if that headline doesn't sound like something out of The Onion.
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Noone can survive such explosion, not even the Sun. Maybe won't be apparent by now, but we will see the consequences of this next year.
I hope the EM waves don't disrupt any US networks, because then DoD would consider that a cyber attack and retaliate with thermonuclear weapons.
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The way they cropped the video of the sun makes it impossible to see a good part of the flare. Well, it is the bad astronomy blog. So what did I expect?
Have gnu, will travel.
was closer on this than Palin was on Paul Revere.
Quick! Someone call John Crichton!
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I thought the IRA had finally vaporized that annoying Brit tabloid.
It's all part of testing IPv6. 'cos it'll actually be widely adopted around the time the sun dies.
Events taking place on the surface of the sun should not be described as "morning." It's always noon on the sun. Duh.
I, for one, welcome our new star-eater, black-monolith-shaped, time-travelling overlords...
I'd like to know if there was any more evidence for this:
http://www.thesunisiron.com/
http://www.thesurfaceofthesun.com/
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_sol01.htm
http://www.electric-cosmos.org/sun.htm
http://www.electricuniverse.info/Electric_Sun_theory
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.
Go here and you can view animations of the sun using all the different telescopes on SDO...
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/aiahmi/rangeform.php
Instructions to view the subject solar flare: select browse by date range, enter 2011-06-07 00:00:00 as the beginning and 2011-06-07 12:00:00 as the end dates, select movie as the display, select resolution 1024x1024, and set nth = 1, submit and enjoy. Also, you can play with the different telescopes.
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What would the impact have been on Earth if this had been pointing directly towards us? Would it have been on the scale of the Carrington event?
So many of the quacks trying to push their perpetual motion machines claim they are harnessing the "power of magnetism", at which point the experts swoop in and point out you can't extract energy from a magnet.
Magnetic energy is real.
This may seem like a minor quibble, but in fact you can definitely extract energy from a magnet. Just let it attract a magnetically attractable object (iron ball), and harness the force it exerts on that object over a distance while it "falls" into the magnet. Work is just the integral of the dot product of force times distance, integrated over distance, and energy is the ability of a physical system (the magnet) to do work on another physical system (a magnetically attractable object).
It's not perpetual motion, because you have to exert a like amount of work externally to pry the object away again before you can repeat the process, but it is energy being released.
And others, who actually have a clue, will understand that you are just a troll.
Just because you are paranoid does not mean that no-one is out to get you.
My preparations include making sure I remember to go look outside at night over the next few days. I live on the MA/CT line, and I've only ever seen the aurora once or twice in my life this far South... both times due to massive CMEs.
I'll be on the lookout and have my camera and tripod standing by this time.
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What would happen if that explosion was pointed directly at the Earth?
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Guess the Sun must not be IPv6 compatible...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2238368&cid=36469894 that you don't even have kids or a man, and that you have only 1 eye? What's with the man's name and saying you are a woman too, are you also a transtesticle or something as well??