Gates9@sh.itjust.works to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agoSun unleashes 2 colossal X-class solar flares, knocking out radio signals across the Americas and Pacificwww.space.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1189arrow-down10
arrow-up1189arrow-down1external-linkSun unleashes 2 colossal X-class solar flares, knocking out radio signals across the Americas and Pacificwww.space.comGates9@sh.itjust.works to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agomessage-square36fedilink
minus-squareFenderStratocaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·14 hours agoDid we know this was coming or was it a surprise?
minus-squareGates9@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·14 hours agoWe are in “solar maximum” so heightened activity is expected but we are also not very far in our study and understanding of the sun, and “X-class flares” are fairly unusual. https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasa-noaa-sun-reaches-maximum-phase-in-11-year-solar-cycle/
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 hours agoWe should probably shut down any of that book-learnin’ and knowing real facts about the world. Does fElon know about this “waste, fraud, and abuse”?
minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoOut only hope that take being naked X-class will keep him interested long enough to no cancel funding, but not long enough to declare war on the su… Oh, he thinks we can pull a reverse Dyson sphere to shade the earth enough to reverse climate change now. Isn’t climate change was just a woke mind virus thing though? /s
minus-squarefluxion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·13 hours agoGiven this timeline, no, not a surprise
Did we know this was coming or was it a surprise?
We are in “solar maximum” so heightened activity is expected but we are also not very far in our study and understanding of the sun, and “X-class flares” are fairly unusual.
https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasa-noaa-sun-reaches-maximum-phase-in-11-year-solar-cycle/
We should probably shut down any of that book-learnin’ and knowing real facts about the world. Does fElon know about this “waste, fraud, and abuse”?
Out only hope that take being naked X-class will keep him interested long enough to no cancel funding, but not long enough to declare war on the su…
Oh, he thinks we can pull a reverse Dyson sphere to shade the earth enough to reverse climate change now.
Isn’t climate change was just a woke mind virus thing though? /s
Given this timeline, no, not a surprise