This solar eruption video will straight up melt your face it's so awesome

io9.com ^ | 7 June 2012 | Robert T. Gonzalez

[Hardraade]

I was in the bunker.

[Windflier]

I pity the planet that’s in the line of that CME!

That thing was big enough to knock the socks off of Jupiter.

[Windflier]

...tagline

Much appreciated. It's been my tagline since before I was a Freeper.

[Windflier]

Try our outback here mate in the summer. What you have we call winter.

Come on up and see us in August when it's 107 degrees in the shade. I guarantee you, even an Aussie will appreciate that heat.

[SkyDancer]

Piffle - 107deg.? Okay, Fall.

[EEGator]

Pics needed for confirmation...

[Windflier]

Piffle - 107deg.? Okay, Fall.

I understand the skepticism. I'm originally from Southern California, where summer temps can hit 113F or higher. I really thought I knew heat until I moved to Texas.

Friends out here tried to warn me that it was unlike the heat on the west coast, but I just laughed. Later that first summer, I thought I was living on the surface of the sun.

[slouper]

Okay, I’m down with the whole machete = toothpick thing but really, here in Texas we know the heat. There ain’t no getting use to it ‘till winter and that’s that. Period. And winter is just cool.

[SkyDancer]

Just funnin’ as you would say. But yeah, I know the heat you’re talking about. Here’s it’s a dry heat. With flies. You don’t know flies until you’ve experienced them here. They swarm. Not the individual onesies or twosies - but swarm. Then you have the heat.

[farsny]

never really looked at the sun before....

whoa.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Windflier, extra to APoD members.

[martin_fierro]

Darned if you weren't righhhthhataAAARRRRRRFGGGGHGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Windflier]

really, here in Texas we know the heat. There ain’t no getting use to it ‘till winter and that’s that. Period.

Yep. The Texas summer fried the west coast arrogance right out of my behind. Made me a humble man, it did.

[Windflier]

Just funnin’ as you would say. But yeah, I know the heat you’re talking about. Here’s it’s a dry heat.

Yeah, it's the added humidity in the air in Texas that makes it seem like you're being boiled alive. The temps may get higher where I'm from, but like Australia, it's a dry heat.

[Stand Watch Listen]

;)

[Windflier]

never really looked at the sun before.... whoa.

It's the most amazing body in the solar system. Funny that we learned so little about it in school.

[Windflier]

If that CME had hit us, we all would have melted just like that. Or, gone up in a puff of smoke.

[spokeshave]

Welcome King Barack "Canute" Obama the Great.....

...Obama issues an Executive Order to the Sun...

....to increase it's magnetic field....

and make a good crop of sunspots before elections in 2016....

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is steadily declining. They predict that by 2016 there may be no remaining sunspots, and the sun may stay spotless for several decades.

The last time the sunspots disappeared altogether was in the 17th and 18th century, and coincided with a lengthy cool period on the planet known as the Little Ice Age....and lasted 400 years.

Good luck surviving with no electricity and GE modified seeds.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news203746768.html#jCp

[The Cajun]

Have read that in several articles.
Most people have no idea what we're probably in for with a cool down, largely due to idiot AlGore and other crack pot PC warmist.

[Bob]

That’s certainly true about ‘dry heat’. Our 95+ degree temps with 20% humidity here in the Santa Clara valley are a.darned sight more comfortable than cooler temps with 90% humidity. At least your sweat can evaporate. (and it cools off nicely at night)