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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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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Oh So That's Why NASA Has Little Funding by eldavojohn · 2012-03-14 02:37 · Score: 5, Informative

The NASA video constantly reiterates that it's a 'common event' while trying to make it still sound cool even telling you about coronal cavities and filaments. The Register, with complete disregard for knowledge, skips this part and goes straight to alien's fueling up on the sun, Death Star references, etc. Slashdot blows all of that away, changes it from spherical to triangle (not sure where that came from) and clings to doomsday theories.

Everyone profits but NASA. Just like the History Channel, sacrifice your integrity for aliens and conspiracies to maximize profit.

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Not a Triangle. by gbr · 2012-03-14 02:38 · Score: 5, Informative

If it's a triangle, why does the video show and discuss a circular object with a 'tether' to the sun?
1. 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
2. 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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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!
Come on, guys... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-14 02:50 · Score: 5, Funny

It's just the "play" button...
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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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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