Giant Sun Eruption Captured in NASA Video

space.com ^ | 17 November 2012 Time: 09:27 AM ET | Tariq Malik, SPACE.com Managing Editor

[cripplecreek]

2 days of red beans and rice. Lots of eruptions around here today.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Video

H/T to the Drudge Report.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

So, are we now seeing increased solar activity which has been subdued for awhile?

Will that affect our winter weather?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

ARE WE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

[Squantos]

Mayan Calendar says we have at least a month left ... Not to worry.

[BenLurkin]

[Marcella]

These flares have been getting bigger and bigger and next year is the apex of the cycle. When a flare shoots off it goes in a straight line, no deviation, so one knows where it is going. If it’s path is directed at earth, we will get it.

If we get past 2013 without getting a major burst that destroys our electrical system, maybe we will be okay. That doesn’t guarantee we won’t get a big one the next year but at least we would have made it through the most active year of 2013.

I read up on an EMT from this and also from a nuclear bomb going off over the country and found that a sun EMT is less destructive because it stays in that straight line, and is pulled into the electric system. You car would likely work and so would any electronic equipment IF IT WAS NOT PLUGGED IN when this happens.

A bomb EMT, however, is spread out and corrupts everything, plugged in or not.

[onyx]

Awesome!

[cotton]

I would venture that this eruption of the Sun was caused by overpopulation. Only going green and reducing our outrageous use of fossil fuels, while we decrease the number of cattle and human beings will allow the Sun to cool sufficiently enough to decrease such eruptions and save Mother Earth for the cockroaches and salamanders and other worthy inhabitants. Let us tax carbon use and send the money to Al Gore.

[GeronL]

My theory is just as valid it was caused by liberalism and we must reduce the liberal population until the sun settles down

[cotton]

Amen!

[Slyfox]

The Sun. The real cause of Global Warming.

[Graewoulf]

GREAT Images! Thanks!

[Errant]

Let ‘em soak overnight in water with about 1 tsp of salt added. It helps!

[American Constitutionalist]

" 2 days of red beans and rice. Lots of eruptions around here today. "

Ahhh yes, breaking wind,, let the wind blow.

Best is baked beans.

[American Constitutionalist]

Just think ? just the latest Solar fart is more power and energy than all of human history of using any kind of fuels.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest and onyx, here’s an ‘extra’ for APoD members, plus an ‘extra’:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2960690/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest and onyx, here’s an ‘extra’ for APoD members, plus an ‘extra’:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2960690/posts

[Condor51]

Friday's solar eruption does not appear to be aimed at Earth, so will likely have little effect on our planet.

I beg to differ.

On Sat afternoon I was noodling around with my newest Fender Strat and Mustang III Amp and all of a sudden I got HUM, lots of hum. This can be common on Fender Strat's due to their single coil pickups, it's called '60 cycle hum'. So natch that's what I thought it was and switched from my Strat to my ES-335 that has Humbuckers -- and those PUs are IMMUNE to the dreaded 60 cycle hum. Well .... surprise, but no luck, the Hum was still there.

It had to be due to this Solar Flare as yesterday I got out my Srat, plugged it into my Mustang and there wasn't any hum (This isn't the first time I've experienced this 'anomaly').