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- sluggysan, on 06/17/2008, -1/+67Basically what I've learned over the years from science articles like this one is that the surface of the sun is f'ing crazy. Stuff like this doesn't even surprise me anymore. You could tell me that every 10 minutes the sun is engulfed by a blue fireball that causes pepperoni pizza to rise from the surface and shoot 5,000 miles in the air and I would say that sounds feasible. At this point I'm really open to anything.
- seanmx, on 06/18/2008, -1/+44you mean a tsunami on the tsun
- crackedlogic, on 06/18/2008, -0/+21there were no survivors.
- ferrell, on 06/18/2008, -1/+21Holy crap! The sun is now green?
Man, I need to get out more often! - elnerdo, on 06/18/2008, -1/+19If only they told us in a useful measurement... like 'football fields' per 'time it takes to download an mp3'
- sandburn, on 06/18/2008, -1/+18i tsee what you did there...
- starmanjones, on 06/18/2008, -0/+14the one that surprised me fairly recently is that the suns interior is so active and so dense that there are photon bouncing around in there for million or billions of years unable to get out.
- Azohko, on 06/18/2008, -0/+12They called it "A pressure Wave", which means I 100% do not understand what the surface of the sun is.
I thought it was just Hot - Jhiaxuz, on 06/18/2008, -0/+72,100,000,000,000 Energon Cubes
- hardom, on 06/18/2008, -0/+7Because of the Tsunami, the Sun released two billion times the annual world energy consumption in just a fraction of a second and the event lasted for 35 minutes...
And..
My calculator is now on fire. Can someone explain to me how much energy was actually released in total? - skywake, on 06/18/2008, -0/+6yeah, these "meters" are such non-standard units. Who do these scientists think they are? :P
- ColorBlind, on 06/18/2008, -0/+6I love space
- bosssmiley, on 06/18/2008, -0/+6Is there any way of harvesting these delicious solar pepperoni flares of which you speak?
Our friendly neighbourhood fusion reactor (once again) ftw! - inactive, on 06/18/2008, -0/+5“The energy released in these explosions is phenomenal, about two billion times the annual world energy consumption in just a fraction of a second"
Could this possibly cause a noticeable increase in temperatures (at any level of the atmosphere) here on Earth? My guess would be yes. - inajeep, on 06/18/2008, -0/+5The Green Lantern lives.
- spinladen, on 06/18/2008, -0/+5Notice it took about a year for this info to go public.
With the abundance of the new solar arrays up in orbit,
makes you wonder what is so hush hush. - tripledjr, on 06/18/2008, -1/+6A million kilometers an hour, the suns scary as balls.
- teh_techie, on 06/18/2008, -0/+5Bravo!
- Matteos, on 06/18/2008, -0/+5"Can you imagine the mayhem if people were were given a date for thier inevitable doom?"
No, but the sex would be good. - kinologik, on 06/18/2008, -0/+5Best weapon against hunger, violence, global warming (etc.) is education.
I prefer to have my taxes help you study the awesome power of our pepperoni bursting sun than financing a somehow flawed and heavy social service system. - Orion1004, on 06/18/2008, -1/+5What gives us life, could also destroy us. Better learn as much as we can....The movie Sunshine capture some of the possible terror. Cool post!
- TheCatsPants, on 06/18/2008, -0/+4The sun is not made of stone. It's a big ball of really hot gases held together by gravity balanced by the heat of the fusion in it's core.
- bosssmiley, on 06/18/2008, -0/+4Quisling fool! The pepperonoids are not our masters, they are our rightful prey!
- whatsgoodike, on 06/18/2008, -0/+4*cough*621,371mph*cough*
- jordanlgta, on 06/18/2008, -0/+4Judging from how big the sun is compared to the earth, that tsunami is extremely enormous.
- zadadka, on 06/18/2008, -0/+3Unfortunately, your head is just as likely not to be able to cope with the big numbers involved.....accept "shedloads" as being definitive enough.
- mrloserhead, on 06/18/2008, -6/+9a million kilometers per hour. what's that, like 100, 150 miles per hour?
- LZeppelinJ0, on 06/18/2008, -0/+3The way I understand it is the surface is a molten-lava type substance that will eventually turn in to some ridiculous amount of iron compacted in to a tiny tiny little ball before it goes nova/supernova and annihilates pretty much everything that can see it.
I'm only a Physical Therapy graduate though, so don't quote me in any studies or anything ;p - stealthc, on 06/18/2008, -0/+3Maybe nothing at all is happening, and it takes them a year to photoshop the images and make up the stories so they have something to write about in their grant proposals.
- elnerdo, on 06/18/2008, -1/+4I'm fairly certain that our own sun is too small to go supernova or turn into a black hole. It'll just end up as a big ball of iron.
- jamdogg, on 06/18/2008, -0/+3“The energy released in these explosions is phenomenal, about two billion times the annual world energy consumption in just a fraction of a second,” - and we are worried about declining oil stocks. Humans are ***** dumb.
- HueytheFreeman, on 06/18/2008, -0/+2ba-dum-tss
- herschman321, on 06/18/2008, -0/+2they found out that sunspots 'may' effect our weather
- Duositex, on 06/18/2008, -0/+2I thought physical therapists would know a lot about exploding balls...
- ManicA, on 06/18/2008, -0/+2Video of it; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7326097.stm
- inactive, on 06/18/2008, -0/+2Its amazing how natural events and formations on other planets dwarf the ones happening on ours. Earth is extremely calm compare to the rest of our solar system. I mean Jupiter has a storm the size of a planet, mars has a canyon the size of United States and the sun apparently have tsunamis traveling at a million kilometers per hour.
- elnerdo, on 06/18/2008, -0/+2Just because I was curious, 1,000,000 km/h is approximately 16,666,576 football-fields/time-to-download-an-mp3.
- MattS, on 06/18/2008, -1/+3"f'ing crazy" - please stop using such technical terms! ;)
- stealthc, on 06/18/2008, -0/+2It was a stolen Klingon Bird of Prey, stupid!
/nerd - inactive, on 06/19/2008, -0/+2Fox, do a barrel roll!
- Auzy, on 06/18/2008, -2/+4Are you you talking about when the crazy german demon dood starts randomly killing people, when the nuke goes off and the guy is touching its explosion, or the part when some dumbass destroys the solar shield?
That movie made no sense. - Heggy, on 06/18/2008, -1/+3"Extreme Ultraviolent Imager". Awesome.
- stealthc, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1No it can't, but solar heating and cooling cycles can.
And yes, I know you were using sarcasm. - ghuytro, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1Better add "education" to that list of gripes - you might want to look on a map to see where Dublin is.
- elementop, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1In ST III (the movie), yes it was a stolen Bird of Prey, but IIRC they did it once or twice with the Enterprise in the original series.
/another nerd - gu0d, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1The article is actually dating to a tsunami 19 May 2007, so this video posted on 2 April 2008 could be of this one but posted a year later.
- monoa, on 06/19/2008, -0/+1Not quite - we've got about 1 billion years before we're fried:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Life_cycle - Vet4Peace, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1Well, figure out a way to put some of that solar-tsunami power in your gas tank and you'll be a trillionaire.
- LZeppelinJ0, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1lmfao, dugg for hilarity
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