Massive Explosion On the Sun 202
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.
Comment from the space.com article (Score:4, Funny)
Translation: You can begin panicking now!
Be careful (Score:5, Funny)
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.
It's dead, Jim (Score:3, Funny)
Re:SEEMS PAR FOR THE COURSE !! (Score:0, Funny)
But "warming" is caused by "CO2".
Of course it is, Jeremiah Cornelius! Ya fuckin' faggot!
Re:SEEMS PAR FOR THE COURSE !! (Score:5, Funny)
A billion tons of material blown away.
But "warming" is caused by "CO2".
Well... if the sun were not there, global warming would not be an issue. I'll grant you that.