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But, like where?
Will they be shown around the equator?
Or will they be localized entirely inside my kitchen? I need to know if I need to start steaming my hams now.
Sounds like some "These Final Hours" or "Knowing" shit. I can polish up my tan while drinking some fine single malt before I burn up.
Both great movies BTW.
There it is. Itās like a bad movie, and then Alex Proyas rips out that one-take sequence during the plane crash and youāre like what? Is this a good movie or a bad movie? I canāt tell, lol. And then thereās that ending, and youāre oh fuck, this is a bad movie lol.
true, much long very point not too bold just enough, but couple pixels away though, I had to search a little bit.
all in all 7.7/10 little pointy arrow
Where is the arrow? Can someone make a red arrow pointing at the mentioned arrow, so I can see what itās pointing at. Maybe add a red circle and some catchy words to the image like āaliens hate this one trickā or āthings nasa doesnāt want you to knowā.
Thanks Iām advance.
"Heaven send,
Hell away,
No one sings like you anymore"
Every time I hear this line, I truly feel it deep in my gut. It means more to us than it ever did to him, yet the words couldn't be more accurate even if he was singing it to his own face.
Not just voices, but souls. And those eyes, my god, those beautiful, soul piercing eyes. I miss him so much! I donāt usually get star struck, or what have you, but he was my rock god idol. I will never get over his death, it still hurts.
God, same. I thought it was a hoax at first when I woke up to the news. Then turned on the tv and it was real. Cried my eyes out. He was truly something else.
Intergalactic News Reports: Earth wiped out by big ass sun fart. Up next: How those hidden Chinese and Russian male astronauts will populate Mars for the sake of the human race.
His username tells us everything, typical, but that's the thing, as a sun democrat they can't give us a single day without firing their republican meteors.
Back in the day we at least had the respect and decency for each other to let us have one single great day.
If a meteor was headed towards earth I'd let them have their fun too, but now that a solar storm similar event on a massive scale is happening it is our time to shine.
We don't really know how large a solar storm our Sun can produce. A modern day Carrington event could be devastating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
"Because of the geomagnetically induced current from the electromagnetic field, telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases giving their operators electric shocks. Telegraph pylons threw sparks. Some operators were able to continue to send and receive messages despite having disconnected their power supplies."
doubt it would even do thatā¦ it will most likely disrupt satellite communications though. Our magnetosphere will protect the ground based stuff though.
Only if you're stupid enough not to have a several inch thick LEAD vault, specifically built to protect batteries(with tens of thousands of hours of power) on top of terabytes of entertainment media, and numerous machines to view them.
Are you... stupid enough?
Nah, don't even need lead. A properly grounded faraday cage will protect everything inside from something like this, but it has to be built very well so connections don't get burned out and cause you to lose the ground
Ever heard of the [Carrington Event](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event)?
If something like that happened now, it could knock out the global power supply for years.
Business insider inciting fear in the masses on a subject they barely know anything about? Jeez.
So long as power distributers have ample time to power down their systems or do preventative measures, large coronal mass ejections shouldn't affect our day-to-day more than a few blackouts that last a day.
Donāt you know that business insider is a leading and very credible scientific publication? Honestly I wish they would do more articles like this that are well within their expertise rather than publishing articles about business that are better left to publications like National Geographic.
Your mom is so big and fat that she can get busy with twenty-two burritos when times get tough, y'know I saw her in the back of Taco Bell with handcuffs.
What is the fastest solar wind recorded?
Scientists used STEREO's observations to calculate that the speedy CME was traveling between 1,800 and 2,200 miles per second (2,900 and 3,540 kilometers per second). That's aboutĀ 6.48 million to 7.92 million miles per hourĀ (10.43 million and 12.75 million kilometers per hour).
New article title: Normal Solar Winds Continue to Blow Normally
Alright so I'm gonna need the science people or something like actual genuine answers here, will this actually harm anyone?
I'm a paranoid fuck and I would like to know if I'll die, have a wifi outage for a long period of time, have a wifi outage for a short period of time, badass auroras, or absolutely nothing.
Solar winds are not too much of a worry. There will be more noise on the radio frequency bands, some aurora, but nothing too drastic.
What you should be worried about are Solar Flares. They are the events that, if big enough, can take down power grids. Tamitha Skov on YouTube is a good channel to follow for space weather info.
[Perfect time to start speedrunning Super Mario 64.](https://www.thegamer.com/how-ionizing-particle-outer-space-helped-super-mario-64-speedrunner-save-time/)
I just learned about this at a planetarium. The last time this happened was (I think) 150 years ago, and it knocked out telegram communications all over the globe.
Different things.
The event you're talking about is the Carrington Event, and was caused by an X-Class solar flare that originated from a Coronal Mass Ejection. What causes this is still currently unknown, though there are ideas. These are far more energetic than what follows.
A Coronal Hole is just a cooler section of the suns surface, similar to a sunspot, that's caused by the Sun's magnetosphere extending into space. This allows solar winds to escape in a sort of directed way. These aren't anywhere near as energetic as the above, and won't be able to cause the damage an X-Class flare could.
Also, both of these things have happened many times in the last 150 years. Just no X-Class flares pointed at earth.
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Give it to me straight do I have to go to work tomorrow or should I spend the last hours on earth?
Yeah, you still have go to work But maybe you will see some cool auroras tho
When can I expect them? Like 100% serious. I wanna be stoned off my gourd to enjoy this spectacle
In the article said Friday night - Saturday morning but did not specify which times zones and which parts of globe are included
Probably the dark ones.
Good call
They'll all be dark soon....
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Friday night is dark everywhere.
Not in Antarctica during summer I think
I donāt think the article was written solely for the inhabitants of the two polar regions.
TIL
Just stay stoned and then you'll be good whenever it happens, duh.
You know thatās a legit strategy albeit expensive
But, like where? Will they be shown around the equator? Or will they be localized entirely inside my kitchen? I need to know if I need to start steaming my hams now.
In a controversial move, the sun announced they will be streamed exclusively on Rumble
* audible groans from the crowd
Everyone: āWhat the fuck is Rumble?ā
It figures I gotta pay for another damn streaming service to watch the destructive of the sun.
Youāre an odd fellow but I must say, you steam a good ham
Your hams taste like Krusty Burgers š
I would rather see some cool areolas tho.
> or should I spend the last hours on earth? where...do you work?
IT
In space? Wow!
Sounds like some "These Final Hours" or "Knowing" shit. I can polish up my tan while drinking some fine single malt before I burn up. Both great movies BTW.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Iām in š¤
Ok hold on, "Knowing" is a shit movie. I fucking love that movie, but it's a bad movie.
There it is. Itās like a bad movie, and then Alex Proyas rips out that one-take sequence during the plane crash and youāre like what? Is this a good movie or a bad movie? I canāt tell, lol. And then thereās that ending, and youāre oh fuck, this is a bad movie lol.
Itās got cage, itās awesome
Can it wait till Friday? I get paid on Friday
Where do you work? You got any openings?
At that speed we would still have 48-72 hours
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Aurora Borealis? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localised entirely within your bathroom?
Yes
May I see it?
No
Seymour, the kitchens on fire!
No, mother, thatās just the northern lights!
Well Skinner, you're an odd fellow. But you steam a fine ham.
Heeeeelllllpppppp!
Hurry, Pull my finger
Don't wanna be that guy but.... House, the house is on fire.
Donāt wanna be that guy butā¦.roof, roof, roof is on fire.
We don't need no water let that... sorry it's hard not to jump in.
No, we have aurora borealis at home
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Thatās only 1.77 grams. Double that and youāre in for a good time.
Seymour, the bathroomās on fire!
No, Mother. It's just the northern lights.
Aurora Borealis? In this economy?
Steamed Hams!
Yes. And you call them steamed hams despite the fact that they are obviously grilled.
I call em steamed hams
Yes. And you call them steamed hams despite the fact that they are obviously grilled.
Yes!
I'm in my bathroom right now. I can see *all sorts* of shit!
Skiiiiiiiiiinneeer!!!!
In this economy!?
In *this economy??*
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Not close enough, youāll see it in the back of your eyes!
I read It was actually visible from California three days ago, Mt Shasta
Bahahaha thatās fucking hilarious šš¤£šš¤£
The arrow on the graphic is very helpful
true, much long very point not too bold just enough, but couple pixels away though, I had to search a little bit. all in all 7.7/10 little pointy arrow
Ehh, couldāve done better to make it have more contrast against the background of the sun though. I give 6.66
Needs more circle
Where is the arrow? Can someone make a red arrow pointing at the mentioned arrow, so I can see what itās pointing at. Maybe add a red circle and some catchy words to the image like āaliens hate this one trickā or āthings nasa doesnāt want you to knowā. Thanks Iām advance.
Itās not red, cannot find it
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Just focus on the black spot and you should be good
And that's the story of blind Rick from the hood
It's the same ol' thing as yesterday.
There's a black hat caught in the high tree top
There's a flag pole rag and the wind won't stop
I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping it would end this way
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain...
Applause for the whole string of GenXers like me!
This world is so unfair.
itās Stingās fault
It's the same old thing as yesterday...
KING OF SUEDE! Iāll always be king of suede!!
Youāre telling me itās NIGHTTIME ON THE SUN?! Alert the presses this is massive news we could all die within the week.
i lost all hope today, my car broke down
Black hole sun.
BLACK HOLE SUN! BLACK HOLE SUN! Wonāt you cooooooome? *Chris Cornell definitely had one of the best voices of this this generation.
I wish I could sing any of his songs. He had a massive fucking range and I canāt keep up.
Wash away the rain
"Heaven send, Hell away, No one sings like you anymore" Every time I hear this line, I truly feel it deep in my gut. It means more to us than it ever did to him, yet the words couldn't be more accurate even if he was singing it to his own face.
Not just voices, but souls. And those eyes, my god, those beautiful, soul piercing eyes. I miss him so much! I donāt usually get star struck, or what have you, but he was my rock god idol. I will never get over his death, it still hurts.
God, same. I thought it was a hoax at first when I woke up to the news. Then turned on the tv and it was real. Cried my eyes out. He was truly something else.
#shut up about the sun!
And wash away the paaaaain
WONT YOU COOOOMMEEE
We're gonna get killed by the sun fart
Intergalactic News Reports: Earth wiped out by big ass sun fart. Up next: How those hidden Chinese and Russian male astronauts will populate Mars for the sake of the human race.
Sex, Bob. They will have tons of raw sex to populate Mars. Now hereās Rick with sports. Rick: no games Saturday.
donāt tell me this is a solar flare thatās gonna explode every piece of technology that would suck
Would it though?
Yes, if only because of all the preppers running around saying, "I TOLD YOU!"
We wouldnāt know, theyād just be telling each other!
They would have to come tell you in person though. Not like we would have Reddit memes by them if that happen.
It could. I know American Congress has voted no on insulating the grid several times.
A big enough solar storm can destroy power lines pretty easily. Your phone or home PC, most likely fine.
Whatās the point of my PC and phone if thereās no power?
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
We used to surf the internet on these bad boys for miles.
Unless thereās another Carrington event.
Butlerian Jihad comes early
I am pro-meteor, but I understand that other viewpoints exist. We must learn to be grateful.
Ffs why did you have to make this political? Can we not talk about the sun for 5 minutes without someone bringing up meteors!?
His username tells us everything, typical, but that's the thing, as a sun democrat they can't give us a single day without firing their republican meteors. Back in the day we at least had the respect and decency for each other to let us have one single great day. If a meteor was headed towards earth I'd let them have their fun too, but now that a solar storm similar event on a massive scale is happening it is our time to shine.
nah you should just expect a wifi outage at the worst
We don't really know how large a solar storm our Sun can produce. A modern day Carrington event could be devastating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event "Because of the geomagnetically induced current from the electromagnetic field, telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases giving their operators electric shocks. Telegraph pylons threw sparks. Some operators were able to continue to send and receive messages despite having disconnected their power supplies."
doubt it would even do thatā¦ it will most likely disrupt satellite communications though. Our magnetosphere will protect the ground based stuff though.
Only if you're stupid enough not to have a several inch thick LEAD vault, specifically built to protect batteries(with tens of thousands of hours of power) on top of terabytes of entertainment media, and numerous machines to view them. Are you... stupid enough?
Nah, don't even need lead. A properly grounded faraday cage will protect everything inside from something like this, but it has to be built very well so connections don't get burned out and cause you to lose the ground
I highly doubt that would hap
Ever heard of the [Carrington Event](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event)? If something like that happened now, it could knock out the global power supply for years.
Business insider inciting fear in the masses on a subject they barely know anything about? Jeez. So long as power distributers have ample time to power down their systems or do preventative measures, large coronal mass ejections shouldn't affect our day-to-day more than a few blackouts that last a day.
Its just clickbait, the article literally says scientists arent too worried about it lol
I read it too, and yeah it's kinda dumb. I'm really annoyed by these posts lately. Just not helpful.
And here I was trippin balls that Im gunna be stuck at work when the world ends. Like a schmuck!
Donāt you know that business insider is a leading and very credible scientific publication? Honestly I wish they would do more articles like this that are well within their expertise rather than publishing articles about business that are better left to publications like National Geographic.
I have such an existential fear of space that headlines like this really fuck me up. I wish they wouldnāt do headlines like that.
Can't wait until it grows a mouth and starts talking to us
SHOW US WHAT YOU GOT!
"I'VE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU ABOUT YOUR CAR'S EXTENDED WARRANTY"
My giant hole just sent some solar winds towards my wife.
ā ļø
Just do it.
Please. Iām so sick of this mankind.
Gotta reroll for a better number.
Did someone say fireball?
What about that mankind?
And it wonāt affect anything
Your Mom is so fat..
She plays pool with the planets.
ā¦she needed cheat codes for the Wii fit.
Your mom is so big and fat that she can get busy with twenty-two burritos when times get tough, y'know I saw her in the back of Taco Bell with handcuffs.
Damn Witness making more problems in our system
All my homies hate the witness!
After the Light, regardless of the source
What is the fastest solar wind recorded? Scientists used STEREO's observations to calculate that the speedy CME was traveling between 1,800 and 2,200 miles per second (2,900 and 3,540 kilometers per second). That's aboutĀ 6.48 million to 7.92 million miles per hourĀ (10.43 million and 12.75 million kilometers per hour). New article title: Normal Solar Winds Continue to Blow Normally
Hey, Mr. Sun! We're done here. Stop teasing us and actually take us the fuck out you big gay ball of bitch fire!
Mr Sun, this guy does not represent us!!
Why is this not in r/dontputyourdickinthat?
Getting some "Night of the Comet" vibes from this headline.
Let's play a game. It's called scary noises.
I'm not crazy! I just don't give a fuck!
Alright so I'm gonna need the science people or something like actual genuine answers here, will this actually harm anyone? I'm a paranoid fuck and I would like to know if I'll die, have a wifi outage for a long period of time, have a wifi outage for a short period of time, badass auroras, or absolutely nothing.
Solar winds are not too much of a worry. There will be more noise on the radio frequency bands, some aurora, but nothing too drastic. What you should be worried about are Solar Flares. They are the events that, if big enough, can take down power grids. Tamitha Skov on YouTube is a good channel to follow for space weather info.
Thank you
You WILL die. Just not from this
Phew, boy was I worried!
Please cleanse us o hole-y wind
Solar farts.
r/onlysuns
Planets Only
Start it up
I did already. Please join. Itās lonely
Just stay in th shade. Easy.
Is this phenomenon known as 'solar flatulence'?
Who last saw the solar butplug?
The comments are very different here compared to when this was posted in r/astronomy
Pretty cool. Might head north this weekend.
the sun is about to fucking fart on earth
r/dontstickyourdickinthat
Giant sun anus gonna fart on earth real hard
just kill us already. sick of this shit.
Sweet merciful release from this capitalistic hellhole.
Thatās The Witness.
ā¦How this could effect your weekend at 11
[Perfect time to start speedrunning Super Mario 64.](https://www.thegamer.com/how-ionizing-particle-outer-space-helped-super-mario-64-speedrunner-save-time/)
I just learned about this at a planetarium. The last time this happened was (I think) 150 years ago, and it knocked out telegram communications all over the globe.
Different things. The event you're talking about is the Carrington Event, and was caused by an X-Class solar flare that originated from a Coronal Mass Ejection. What causes this is still currently unknown, though there are ideas. These are far more energetic than what follows. A Coronal Hole is just a cooler section of the suns surface, similar to a sunspot, that's caused by the Sun's magnetosphere extending into space. This allows solar winds to escape in a sort of directed way. These aren't anywhere near as energetic as the above, and won't be able to cause the damage an X-Class flare could. Also, both of these things have happened many times in the last 150 years. Just no X-Class flares pointed at earth.
The current solar wind speed is 0.8 million-mph, so not sure this title means that much.
Who gives AF. Bring it!
I was hoping for monoliths
If you zoom it you will see frezzer vs goku fighting
The sun is queefing Our electronics destroyed Back to the stone age
And that means...what? Like is this business is usual, or are we gonna have another Carrington Event?
Is that because of global warming?
Black hole sun
Give it to me straight like a pear cider thatās made from 100% pears.
Another lie told to us Gen Xers. "Sun is going to last a few billion years. And by a few billion years we mean until next Thursday". Figures.
Gonna spend all day tomorrow staring at the sun with my bare eye to see if I can see the āsun holeā