I just looked it up on Wikipedia.
The extreme ultraviolet and x-ray radiation from solar flares is absorbed by the daylight side of Earth’s upper atmosphere, in particular the ionosphere, and does not reach the surface.
What else should I know?
You should know that this wasn’t a solar flare, but a coronal mass ejection. Look that up instead. No, it’s nothing too bad either. The one in 1859 was a big one and some people got electrocuted at telegraph stations, but this ain’t like that.
Electrocuted? Or shocked?
Electrocuted as in they received injuries from an electric shock.
I’m generally a linguistic descriptivist, but in the case of “electrocuted”, I do think the distinction is worth having.
I think there’s a distinction between “electrocuted” and “electrocuted to death”. Same as with “stabbed” vs. “stabbed to death” or any other such verb that can, but may not necessarily result in death.
[Edit- I’m blind, the definition I give below does include injury. However, I stand by the fact the word has changed over time, and there is at least some value in following the “old” definition.]
Per Merriam-Webster:
1: to kill or severely injure by electric shock
2: to execute (a criminal) by electricityNow, granted, because the word is used often enough to mean “shocked”, there is a “descriptivist” argument to be made that we should accept the new definition (like “literally” meaning “not literally”).
While I’m generally in favour of this approach, I think the distinction here being literally life-and-death (especially when used in a workplace context) warrants some push-back against this new definition.
That said, English doesn’t have language police, so you’re more than free to disagree with my take, haha.
Iirc it’s only electrocution if you die
Google and the Oxford dictionary disagree.
Google and the Oxford dictionary disagree
You mean the opinion of Google is different from that of the Oxford dictionary?
Electrocution = death
Google and the Oxford dictionary disagree.
I wonder if the origin of the word was a portmanteau of electricity and execute.
Execute to death, of course
Could be, but there’s other words with that same ending
Not a solar flare but a coronal mass ejection. And while the subsequent G5 geomagnetic storm can do damage to various technological systems, it shouldn’t be anything too bad.
… you mean the skies are looking Fantastic tonight?
mhmm tasty evolution juice
The best way to describe it!
it’s good that you properly capitalized your name
Don’t look directly at the solar flair
If the solar flare approaches you, do not engage with it
Lay down and pretend you are dead. This way the solar flare will most likely lose intrest and leave.
It’s only 1 though. We need to talk with the sun about its flair.
It claimed it wanted to express itself, but the Crab Pulsar expresses itself every 0.8 seconds.
This only makes me want to do it more
And life goes on…
