Solar flare '10 billion times more powerful' than Earth's Sun blasted out of Orion's sword

FoxNews.com/Science ^ | Feb 16, 2019 | LiveScience

[Veto!]

...and very racis! Most of the sky is black and the ass-tronomers only focus on the white parts!

You are absolutely correct. And very funny.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fieldmarshaldj. I've got the ping message on deck, and it's been there for a half hour or so, while I finished all my usual scuttlebutt. One thing left to add. :^) Probably this topic needs "carrington event" in the keywords.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ETL.

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• Plasma, Solar Outbursts, and the End of the Last Ice Age
• Solar storm of August 28 to September 2, 1859

[dfwgator]

“Oh My God, The Sun!”

“What is it?”

“A big fiery ball in the center of our solar system, but that’s not important right now.”

[trisham]

:)

[Redcitizen]

It’s coming right at us! ( jumps out of window).

[Larry Lucido]

So this happened 1500 years ago?

1502, really?

Old news!

[trisham]

You martinet!

:)

[Larry Lucido]

1500 years ago, closer to home: "Flaming Globes of Orion!"

[SaveFerris]

[And Brian Wilson was there to see it?]

He gets around....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wREBD2og5iY

[SaveFerris]

Somebody should write that down as a joke!

[ETL]

So Orion’s junk is spewing flaming hot stuff.

Got it.

Thanks.

L

I think there may have been, long ago, an all-male tribe who saw the sword as Orion’s "junk". I guess one sees what they want to see.

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[al baby]

I think about baseball