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A Giant Trilobite on the Sun "We've never seen anything quite like it,"...

physorg.com — Last week she sat in an audience of nearly two hundred colleagues at the "Living with a Star" workshop in Boulder, Colorado, and watched in amazement as Saku Tsuneta of Japan played a movie of sunspot 10926 breaking through the turbulent surface of the sun. Before their very eyes an object as big as a planet materialized, and no one was prepared fo

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  • dr0psy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+75can i make a trilobite overlords joke plz?
  • EntropyGun, on 10/10/2007, -0/+45You know you're deep inside Nerdsville when a reference to a trilobite is "sexing things up".
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+38...and yesterday I saw a cloud that looked like a cute little bunny.
  • Junkyarddawg, on 10/10/2007, -4/+36It looks nothing like a trilobite. I found it vaguely similar to iron filings over a magnet, no doubt because it's charged particles in a strong magnetic field.

    I realize the need to sex up things like news of a sunspot video, but this is silly and misleading.
  • vroom101, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21Video: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/images/trilobite/Hinode_lower.mov
  • coit, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19I blame global warming.
  • egroeggnik, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15The digs say 'yes'. :)
  • flashingcurser, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13I say no, but I'll digg you up for asking.
  • vuke69, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Maybe you should try welcoming our new reply button overlords instead.
  • lithuin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Answering his questions would be even MORE helpful.
    My understanding is that it's a great big positively charged area at the origin of a big sunspot that looks like a trilobite, an arthropod (ugly, segmented, chitinous bugs) that went extinct 250 million years ago, and are relatively common fossil finds.
  • xerexes1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12The video is very cool - hell, it's a time lapse of a sun spot! However, I didn't see a trilobite. I guess it's like looking a cloud formations. I apparently have a stunted imagination.
  • phmfthacim, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9oh, should the government be compressing their videos with DiVX?
  • stronglikedan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Do you mean "The Trouble with Trilobites"?
  • COinOR, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8not you. dr0psy.
  • stealthrocket, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Haha funniest nerd fight ever taken from the article...

    "It looks like a prehistoric trilobite," said Marc De Rosa, a scientist from Lockheed Martin's Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, Calif. "To me it seemed more like cellular mitosis in which duplicated chromosomes self-assemble into two daughter cells," countered Guhathakurta."
  • theanimation, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7for the impatient: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiB1E54QHa8
  • Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6You know you're deep inside Nerdsville when you let your imagination loose when watching a magnetic map of the Sun rather than the clouds.
  • vroom101, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6NASA: Magnetic Trilobite (A Giant Trilobite on the Sun): http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/18sep_trilobite.htm
  • scooterbaga, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Damn it. I want some giant sun monster action!
  • sportbikepilot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6seen the same thing in a glass of Guinness...
  • Pritchard, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4And you even misspelled it. Lame.
  • theuniversal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4For trivia's sake, "Hinode", the name of the Japanese spacecraft, means "Sunrise".
  • generalsticky, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Digg Effect on a government site. LOL I'm getting 20KB/s.
  • sjbdallas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Oh SNAP! De Rosa totally got served!
  • XenophobicAlien, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Hmm maybe blocking you is the answer... yep it was
  • milkmage, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4eh.. the spot that emerges @ around 14:14 12/2/06 to 02:19 12/3/06 (clock in upper right hand corner) looks vaguely like a trilobite... but honestly,
    "To me it seemed more like cellular mitosis in which duplicated chromosomes self-assemble into two daughter cells," countered Guhathakurta.
  • obliviousfool, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3That is one wicked movie!
  • LittleDas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAND
  • grey580, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I, for one, welcome our new lower cambrian overloards.
  • flinx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"There's a little black spot on the sun todaaaaaay...."
  • ShooterMcGavin, on 10/10/2007, -5/+8Folks... c'mon now. It's well known that the human brain is a visual platform that excels at pattern recognition and relating those patterns to things we have seen before. Why do you think that everyone sees faces and dogs and 6 legged pigs in the shapes of clouds? This is no different.
  • philliesphan026, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Gah, I get those two mixed up all the time
  • reyalp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3it might be better to wait until GWB is out of office in the US before we discover any extraterrestrial life. he'll want to go to war with it.
  • SweetMercury, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It looks as much like a trilobite as a cloud might look like a horse.

    Do you have NO imagination?
  • Heiliger, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Just wait till it comes to Earth next year, and knocks the Statue of Liberty's head clean off... right in the middle Rob's pretentiously hip going-away party.
  • edwartica, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I';ve seen lots of things in a glass of guiness. Especially when I've got five empty glasses around the full glass.

    *hic*
  • AntBing, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3-1for you...Dr0psy said all that needed to be.
  • thcobbs, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Was I the only one thinking that the Sun must have a lot of Quadrotriticale?
  • Hildy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2There is a theory that sun spot activity could be the largest cause of global warming, I think coit was being funny/ironic...
    +1digg nice one coit!
  • Azuroth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2According to TFA the sunspot is about the size of Earth.
  • deathproof, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4All Hail The Trilobite
  • sabach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I have a blind friend that always says "Hey, good to see ya".
  • cgruber, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2They keys are like right next to each other.
  • sjbdallas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2no sir, that would have been BYTE instead of BITE
  • mrection, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2mirror: http://www.mirrorbuddy.com/m/5-tpz.html
  • Matri, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yet you never bothered to post this so-called "good link" which you supposedly found in "less than a minute".
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I was hoping they found a monster eating the sun to save us from global warming,

    then freeze and kill everything on earth.
  • dreadful, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Youtube link to the video
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=kiB1E54QHa8
  • potdarko, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2dugg for "it seemed more like cellular mitosis in which duplicated chromosomes self-assemble into two daughter cells"
  • Hollic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Boy my sarcasm didn't come across well at all, or else Diggers really hate morons that are serious about this crap...
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