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Sun Unleashes Spectacular Solar Eruption
space.com ^
| 04 May 2013 Time: 10:07 AM ET
| Tariq Malik,
Posted on 05/06/2013 12:42:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin
An intense solar storm erupted from the sun on Friday (May 3) in a dazzling space weather display captured by a NASA spacecraft.
The solar flare erupted from the edge the sun, with NASA's powerful Solar Dynamics Observatory snapping photos of the sun storm. The flare peaked at 1:32 p.m. EDT (1732 GMT), registering as a relatively medium-strength M5.7-class event.
Friday's solar storm was the second major space weather event in three days, but was not aimed at Earth. According to astronomer Phil Plait, who chronicled the flare on his Bad Astronomy blog, the solar storm launched super-hot solar plasma about 120,000 miles (200,000 kilometers) above the surface of the sun before it faded from view.
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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; solarflare
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I hope the whole d-mn thing explodes.
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posted on
05/06/2013 12:42:39 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Well a big enough solar storm and all our electronics could go bye bye
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posted on
05/06/2013 12:43:29 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: BenLurkin
>>An intense solar storm erupted from the sun on Friday (May 3)<<
A direct result of Global Warming.
Note: Women and minorities hardest hit.
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posted on
05/06/2013 12:44:02 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(LBJ declared war on poverty and lost. Barack Obama declared war on prosperity and won. /csmusaret)
To: freedumb2003
Caused by too many people eating cheeseburger.
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posted on
05/06/2013 12:44:49 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: freedumb2003
Bush and the sequestration are to blame.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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posted on
05/06/2013 12:45:31 PM PDT
by
wku man
(Amnesty? No Way, Jose (No Se Puede!) by 10 Pound Test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsTUQ8yOI2c)
To: freedumb2003
That pesky Sun is the Mother of All Global Warmers.
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posted on
05/06/2013 12:45:33 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(America is the root cause of violent crime in Mexico. - Barack Hussein Obama Jr.)
To: GraceG
Read up on Faraday Cage’s to protect your stuff
at least have a generator in a metal box
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posted on
05/06/2013 12:45:49 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
To: BenLurkin
Deb will worry whether it's due to global warming!
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posted on
05/06/2013 12:49:01 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
To: BenLurkin
Well great. Here we go again. Solar flares = cries and wails of “climate change”!!!!! Like there is a whole heck of a lot we can do about the durn sun?
/banging head on table...
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posted on
05/06/2013 12:50:09 PM PDT
by
murrie
(Margaret Thatcher. You were one of the best!!!!)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/06/2013 12:50:37 PM PDT
by
ZX12R
(Never forget the heroes of Benghazi, who were abandoned to their deaths by Obama)
To: BenLurkin
This amount of energy from such a nuclear furnace as the sun cannot possibly affect the climate of the earth. Dr Michael Mann at Penn State said so.
To: COBOL2Java
Couldn’t you have cropped the lower portion of the picture before you posted it. (I could make a further comment but won’t.)
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posted on
05/06/2013 12:54:21 PM PDT
by
IM2MAD
(IM2MAD=Individual Motivated 2 Make A Difference)
To: BenLurkin
To: IM2MAD
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posted on
05/06/2013 12:57:15 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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posted on
05/06/2013 1:07:42 PM PDT
by
RedMDer
(May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
To: IM2MAD
Couldn’t you have cropped the lower portion of the picture before you posted it. (I could make a further comment but won’t.) The peer groups:
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posted on
05/06/2013 1:14:57 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(LBJ declared war on poverty and lost. Barack Obama declared war on prosperity and won. /csmusaret)
To: IM2MAD
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posted on
05/06/2013 1:17:35 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: murrie
You could attempt to sacrifice some non-virginal community organizers in the fire of the Sun in an attempt to appease, but that would be a Liberal and heathenish sort of thing to do.
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posted on
05/06/2013 1:27:48 PM PDT
by
WhiskeyX
(The answer is very simple and easy to understand economics. The U.S. Treasury is printing vast)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/06/2013 2:35:39 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
To: 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...
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posted on
05/07/2013 6:33:09 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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