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.

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The impact on BitCoin

[Anonymous Coward]

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.