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Here Is The Solar Flare That Will Kill Us All
"A massive solar flare could make for a beautiful night for people in the northern United States – provided it doesn't knock the lights out. The blast of charged particles unleashed from the sun earlier this week has been peppering the Earth over the last few days, but it's biggest punch is expected to hit the Earth's atmosphere on Thursday."
It has been a pleasure blogging for all of you. I'm going to go investigate what this "outside" people keep telling me about really is. (BTW, click here to see that image as an awesome gif.)
And here it is in the extreme ultraviolet — it blew out the pixels: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110217.html
I'm all linky today.
Threshold!
Apocalypse cancelled everyone: "UPDATE: The particle cloud produced by the Valentines Day event appears to be rather weak and is not expected to produce any strong effects at Earth other than perhaps some beautiful aurora in the high northern and southern latitudes on Feb. 17."
However, feel free to post any Valentine's day + hot mass ejection jokes you can think of.
The sun fucking farted on us.
Mr. Balk, It's incredibly nice out. Can you take us all on a solar appreciation walk. We can write haiku about it later. Why can't learning be fun?
This is why it's 60 degrees in Chicago today, right?
Yes, we're going to die, but at least "dibs" season—and even worse, endless discussions about the origins, traditions, morality, junk furniture, and implied violence and property damage of "dibs" on parking spaces—is over.
Clearly an excuse to wear short-pants.
The big flares are scheduled for 2012, natch.
The sun is about 93 million miles away. When the sun has a bad weather day, though, the Earth feels it. I read this here: Solar Flare 2011: X-class flare may shut down communications The world is facing issues with several gadgets with the first major solar flare of 2011. Though the solar flare is creating beautiful Northern Lights, the negative effects are frustrating.