[cogitator]

What did the President know and when did he know it?

[RightWhale]

What did the President know

The president knows the sun is that hot, bright thing in the sky. I'd like to know what those three bright points of light are, the ones that move in the movie. There are other less-bright points as well, probably stars. Especially what are the two bright points with a horizontal line through each? And what is the one above the sun?

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

The last time this happened the cell phone system in the US WAS totally disrupted.

[Salman]

What did the President know and when did he know it?

< democrat=liberal,whacko >
We're all going to die and it's the shrub's fault!
< /democrat >

[LurkedLongEnough]

I'm ready.

[B4Ranch]

ping

[Pagey]

What makes this picture all the more stunning,is realizing how Large the Sun really is (it's alot bigger than most people realize) and seeing the CME as it flares away from it.That's what instills the awe in me.

[Soul Citizen]

The Wed warning is probably just to let us know that the flare up means we are experiencing an increased period of solar disruption over the next several days.

Associated with the outgasing.

The time lag differential as far as the 8 minutes it takes for light traveling through space to reach earth appears to just be the indication of the increased activity.

Obviously earth's magnetosphere reacts in the time it takes for the rays to travel in the vacume in space from the sun to earth.(186,000 mi/sec at 93 million miles- the 8 minutes)

It wouldn't be unusual for such interactions to alter the paths of the magnetic field surrounding the planet as it reacts to the bombardment of cosmic particles.

We could just say earths fields will react accordingly and return to normal when the period of increased activity subsides.

[Movemout]

Here comes the Sun dadada dah! Another blast off our planetary bow:

HEAVENLY HALO: A lovely full-halo coronal mass ejection raced away from the Sun on Tuesday, July 16th, at 1630 UT. The source of the blast is uncertain, but it likely came from giant sunspot 30 near the middle of the solar disk. If so, the CME is heading for Earth. Stay tuned for updates.