Gates9@sh.itjust.works to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoSun unleashes 2 colossal X-class solar flares, knocking out radio signals across the Americas and Pacificwww.space.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1238arrow-down10
arrow-up1238arrow-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 · 1 day agomessage-square44fedilink
minus-squareFenderStratocaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·24 hours agoDid we know this was coming or was it a surprise?
minus-squareExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 hours agoIt hit us like a sudden monsoon in Goa.
minus-squareGates9@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·23 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-up1·21 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-up1arrow-down1·12 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-up4·23 hours agoGiven this timeline, no, not a surprise
Did we know this was coming or was it a surprise?
It hit us like a sudden monsoon in Goa.
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