Huge Triangle-shaped Spot Over the Sun

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Huge Triangle-shaped Spot Over the Sun

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @02:31AM from the elaborate-advertising-campaign-for-new-x-files-movie dept.

jojo_it writes "NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory photographed a gigantic spot on the sun's corona, that takes the shape of a black triangle. The spot is visible on the AIA 193 channel [of NASA's solar dynamics observatory] since March 11th. 2012 doomsday-theorists should be delighted."

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My god!!! by Vinegar+Joe · 2012-03-14 02:32 · Score: 4, Funny

It's a Mayan pyramid!!!!

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1. Re:My god!!! by vlm · 2012-03-14 02:37 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Don't worry about it. Sometimes a triangle is just a triangle. When you look up there and think you see a goatse, that's when I'd start getting worried.
  
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2. Re:My god!!! by LMacG · 2012-03-14 03:18 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That was thousands of years ago. The Mayans have had plenty of time to work on their anti-aliasing algorithms.
  
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3. Re:My god!!! by SadButTrue · 2012-03-14 03:23 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Except it is about the size of Jupiter. The Mayans were way to lazy to build something like that, hell they couldn't even finish their calendar.
  
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4. Re:My god!!! by Adriax · 2012-03-14 05:49 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Nah, Evil Council.
  Hopefully we can find the Chosen One and Toungy in time.
  
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Re:Not a Triangle. by berashith · 2012-03-14 02:41 · Score: 5, Funny

well, it is a triangle that is curved into a ball, obviously
THEY SHOULD HAVE SCANNED FOR LIFE FIRST!!! by SatanClauz · 2012-03-14 02:48 · Score: 5, Funny

But they didn't! Mining stars for fuel was outlawed a long time ago!
1. Re:THEY SHOULD HAVE SCANNED FOR LIFE FIRST!!! by SatanClauz · 2012-03-14 03:11 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  you have 42 minutes to GTFO!!!
  He has saved your life so many times and you never even knew he was there.
Re:Not a Triangle. by reverseengineer · 2012-03-14 02:49 · Score: 5, Funny

It's a non-Euclidean triangle! To even imagine the Lovecraftian horrors that lie within would drive you mad!

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Come on, guys... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-14 02:50 · Score: 5, Funny

It's just the "play" button...
1. Re:Come on, guys... by PPH · 2012-03-14 03:14 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  OMG!!! Google has taken over the sun!!!
  How long before it will only be available for those who have a Google+ account?
  
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Re:My God! by Svartalf · 2012-03-14 02:51 · Score: 3, Funny

Nah... It's just a rubber Ningi burning up in the sun...

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Re:Worst article summary ever by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-14 02:55 · Score: 2, Funny

Im going to start a new slashdot!!! with blackjack!! and hookers!!!
OMG! I see it! I see it!!! by retroworks · 2012-03-14 02:58 · Score: 4, Funny

Except it's a WHITE triangle, just in front of the sun! Oh wait... it's the "play" button on youtube video. Nevermind.

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Re:what by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-03-14 03:14 · Score: 4, Funny

You don't see it because it's protected by an SEP field.

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It's a message from God by clickclickdrone · 2012-03-14 03:17 · Score: 3, Funny

He's reminding us what female pubes are supposed to look like.

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Re:So Clarke got it wrong. by arth1 · 2012-03-14 03:42 · Score: 4, Funny

I saw the triangle - it was HUGE!
Then I clicked it, and it went away, and the sun started spinning.
So you're safe now.
Re:So Clarke got it wrong. by GameboyRMH · 2012-03-14 03:46 · Score: 4, Funny

They better not have rounded corners.

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Re:Oh So That's Why NASA Has Little Funding by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-14 04:07 · Score: 3, Funny

It's not an image, it's a video. The triangle is the "play" button.
I saw a triangle! by a_nonamiss · 2012-03-14 04:07 · Score: 3, Funny

Using the links in the post, the only triangle I saw was the YouTube play button...

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Re:Oh So That's Why NASA Has Little Funding by mrbester · 2012-03-14 04:26 · Score: 4, Funny

Indeed.

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Re:Aliens by oneiros27 · 2012-03-14 04:29 · Score: 3, Funny

LISTER: Oh god, aliens? Your explanation for anything slightly peculiar is aliens, isn't it? You lose your keys -- it's aliens. A picture falls off the wall -- it's aliens. That time we used up a whole bog roll in a day -- you thought that was aliens as well.
RIMMER: Well we didn't use it all, Lister. Who did?
LISTER: Rimmer, aliens used our bog roll?
RIMMER: Just 'cause they're aliens doesn't mean to say the don't have to visit the little boys' room. Only they probably do something weird and alienesque like it comes out of the top of their heads or something.
(Red Dwarf, Season 2, "Kryten")

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