Something bright and active on the far side of the sun is about to turn toward Earth

http://beforeitsnews.com ^ | July 26th, 2010 | freepressinternational.com

[TaraP]

OVER THE HORIZON: Something bright and active on the far side of the sun is about to turn toward Earth. Magnetic loops towering over the eastern limb herald its approach:

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory took this picture during the early hours of July 26th. The bright glow revealed by SDO's extreme ultraviolet camera comes from million-degree plasma trapped by overlying magnetic fields. A sunspot is likely at the bottom of it all.

Or maybe two sunspots... NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft is stationed over the sun's eastern limb, and it sees a pair of active regions approaching single file. The one peeking over the limb now is actually the smaller of the two. Readers with solar telescopes should train their optics here.

[wbill]

Sadly, your comment wasn’t sarcastic. :-(

[dead]

[Cyber Liberty]

Heh. Now THAT'S comedy! Along with a certain book that came out around that time, Citizen Clinton, by a great author!

[dead]

Hey, thanks! I didn’t know anybody still remembered that ol’ chestnut!

[mikrofon]

You might be thinking of the 90’s Outer Limits ep- “Inconstant Moon” based on a short story of the same name by Larry Niven.

In this show, the professor (Michael Gross) deduces that the extremely bright moon means that the Sun has gone nova, and the daylight side of Earth has been wiped out. Believing the end is near, he marries his formerly-unapproachable love; then realizing the event may only have been intense solar flare, they prepare for survival as the sun begins to rise.

[Drumbo]

*EotW ping*

[timestax]

uh OH !

[RightWingConspirator]

"the only survivors of a world-ending flare would be the Obamas and a crop of sycophantic White House journalists."

for a brief period until the GPS satellite system and AF One's electronics and control system were fried by the EMP and AF One went spiraling into a fiery crash. That would make a fitting end to the sycophantic White House "journalists".

[American Constitutionalist]

Kinda like the ending of Jeff Wayne’s war of the worlds where you hear this person calling Houston and no response after you hear the Martian’s creepy sound.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fanfan!

a pair of active regions approaching single file

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[grey_whiskers]

Why does a *woman* feel the need to drop a potato down the front of her panties?

(Yeah, it's a softball question.)

Laz?

[SunkenCiv]

Never heard of Mister Potato Head?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Its bright, bright, brighter than a thousand suns!

[BenLurkin]

So, for us Liberal Arts Majors, why is the title so ominous when we're just talking about solar activity. Is it some unheard of solar activity?

[GOPJ]

Is this Bush’s fault too?

Yes - everything is...

[SunkenCiv]

Well, technically, since there’s a near-vacuum, we’ve never heard *any* solar activity. /rimshot

[Southack]

The title is ominous only because the Sun maintains the energy potential to flare up and wipe out the solar system at any moment, even though what appears to be “bright” at the moment may be nothing more than an ordinary sunspot.

The Sword of Damoclese hangs above us all, though it never seems to drop.

[EternalVigilance]

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”

— Thomas Jefferson

[Drumbo]

*ping*

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

That’s why we have that spacecraft at the sun, silly.

Oh yeah, I had forgotten about the Solar Rover we sent up there. Clinton administration, right?