Huge Eruption Rocks the Sun

[madmom]

http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/16/huge-eruption-rocks-the-sun/?flv=1



cool video and the end of article

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. Dude, that's like so eight minutes ago. Sheesh.

[madmom]

2. well excuuuuuuuse me ... sheesh

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. what's amazing is just

how much energy was released over such a large area of our star. I read that some astrophysicists think that they have to rewrite certain chapters of this class of stars' behavior.

It does point out something else. It be bloody dangerous out there. Protecting people in space flight suddenly became a lot riskier. building personal faraday boxes? Possibly. but it will take a lot of power to prevent any similar blast from frying us.

[BadgerKid]

5. It'd be great to capture that energy.

Personal faraday cages would have to be made to block radiation - perhaps something like a lead box with copper and iron linings.

[Kalyke]

21. We can - our governments just choose not to.

Sigh.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

22. where's the profit in that?

Without profits, no bribes. Without bribes, the whole idea of running for orfice goes away. At least with this class of clowns.

[Edweird]

6. 'Personal faraday cages' exist and are used daily by linemen working on transmission lines.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. neat. have any site cites?

[blaze]

13. Here's a cool video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd40ASbGte0

[ChairmanAgnostic]

16. cool? that's HOT! wow. All the jobs, from the

chopper operator to those crawling around on the lines, incredible.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

23. i remember seeing this a while back...

and you're right...too cool...and that chopper pilot is very good...

sP

[truth2power]

27. O.M.G. Shudder! Amazing. I've read that the reason you're allegedly safe

in an automobile during an electrical storm is not the rubber tires, as some think, but that the body of the car acts as a Faraday cage.

[Stardust]

28. Very cool. I wonder how much he makes. It would have to be a whole lot

to get me up there. :scared:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

29. I can't imagine salaries that large.

not for me.

[adigal]

11. The sun's rays take 8 minutes to reach us

That is why that poster said that, not to mock you. :)

[awoke_in_2003]

12. i don't think it is a slam....

there is a joke there- light from the sun takes about 8 minutes to reach the earth.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

15. precisely. sometimes my humor is so dry, the sahara

gets jealous.

[madmom]

17. Sorry for the snark, I wasn't thinking. Really bad because my

grand daughter and I were just talking about that, this past week end, duh:blush:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

19. Ah, you're one of those who TALKS to the yute. I see.

Do you know what that leads to? Do you? DO YOU?

They may start becoming curious about Life, the Universe, and Everything! Pretty soon, they'll be reading, thinking, questioning, and the next thing, before you know it, they will love Sir Adams!

[Motown_Johnny]

24. ROFL

[old mark]

4. Republican right, Democratic Left blame Obama.....nt

[Greybnk48]

7. Well, this will get "Sunspot" Johnson (moran-WI) going

big time!!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. is he a climate change denier? figures.

No, wait! figures scare them to death. Faith. That's what we need. And Prayer. That will solve everything.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. I told you we shouldn't have bombed the moon.

The indigo children will have their revenge.

[awoke_in_2003]

14. We will be in big trouble...

when we decide to probe Uranus. (I know, low hanging fruit :))

[Warren DeMontague]

18. The low hanging fruit are something else.

Phobos and Deimos, if you get my drift.

[Gabi Hayes]

20. Hugh G. Rexion rocks Boehner's world, from behind:

[EFerrari]

26. I misread that as "Hugo Eruption".

lol

[Motown_Johnny]

25. so predicting solar activity just got more complicated

I have mixed feelings


It is cool that we learned something new. It isn't cool that the difficulty in predicting solar storms just increased.


(but it is a cool video)

[MoonRiver]

30. Fascinating!

Guess this will shut up the idiot global warming deniers, who insist that there is a decrease in sun spots, thereby "proving" that climate change cannot be happening.