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Cool Sun video
« on: February 20, 2013, 10:30:59 AM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aTbksd5-Rdg

Speculation that it's a "spaceship sucking fuel off the sun."   ;/


Looks like some sort of magnetic balloon phenomena detaching from the Sun, to me.  Not really a coronal mass ejection... more of a coronal vacuum ejection.  Weird.

7 o'clock position in the video.
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Re: Cool Sun video
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2013, 11:56:49 AM »
CME -- Coronal Mass Ejection.    ;/
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Re: Cool Sun video
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2013, 12:08:03 PM »
It's a solar prominence caused by a twisted magnetic field loop. Happens fairly often.

Basically, different parts of the sun rotate at different rates. This causes the magnetic field lines to buckle and twist, causing coronal loops. When the streams cross, the loop breaks and you get a solar prominence. A really big one can cause solar flares and CMEs when the broken ends of the magnetic loop reconnect.

« Last Edit: February 20, 2013, 02:18:24 PM by Regolith »
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Re: Cool Sun video
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2013, 12:16:38 PM »
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« Last Edit: February 20, 2013, 02:18:30 PM by Regolith »
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Re: Cool Sun video
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2013, 12:27:48 PM »
Quote from: Regolith on February 20, 2013, 12:16:38 PM
It's a solar prominence caused by a twisted magnetic field loop. Happens fairly often.

Basically, different parts of the sun rotate at different rates. This causes the magnetic field lines to buckle and twist, causing coronal loops. When the streams cross, the loop breaks and you get a solar prominence. A really big one can cause solar flares and CMEs when the broken ends of the magnetic loop reconnect.


You said that the first time.
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Re: Cool Sun video
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2013, 01:25:42 PM »
 
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When the streams cross

OMG they crossed the streams.  Don't cross the streams.

My vote is for a solar Origonisim.
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Re: Cool Sun video
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2013, 01:35:20 PM »
The comments are... interesting.  There are some very cracked people out there.


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Re: Cool Sun video
« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2013, 02:18:56 PM »
Quote from: TommyGunn on February 20, 2013, 12:27:48 PM
You said that the first time.

Weird...that was supposed to be an edit to the previous post, not a new post.  :facepalm:
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Re: Cool Sun video
« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2013, 02:25:46 PM »
On the "related videos" list:  "TRUTH!  The Earth does not revolve around the Sun ..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6jBK1ZV-qs

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Re: Cool Sun video
« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2013, 04:13:34 PM »
While it is, indeed, a cool video of solar phenomena, I am extremely disappointed by the thread.



... I can't be the only one that read "Blue Sun video" rather than "Cool Sun video", right?
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Re: Cool Sun video
« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2013, 06:48:40 PM »
Just swamp gas from a weather balloon...   :police:
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Re: Cool Sun video
« Reply #11 on: February 20, 2013, 08:44:42 PM »
Quote from: Angel Eyes on February 20, 2013, 02:25:46 PM
On the "related videos" list:  "TRUTH!  The Earth does not revolve around the Sun ..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6jBK1ZV-qs

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If you drive from Texas to Wisconsin, fairly due north, and the trip takes you roughly 24 hours, you drove in a straight line to the north on the map of the Earth, but it was actually a curved slanted line that spirals in if viewed from a stationary point (relative to the Earth's rotation) in space.

However, I have always thought this was the BIGGEST hole in any time-travel stories. I never watched the show, but there was some "7 Days" thing where the guy's pod popped out over the Earth one week away in it's orbit, and he had to re-enter and land at least. I'll give them props for that one.

Of course "Back to the Future" would have been over quick if Marty, Doc, and the DeLorean popped out into interstellar space, and they struggled for a few confused moments as they floated, froze, and asphyxiated.
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Re: Cool Sun video
« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2013, 08:49:09 PM »
Quote from: AJ Dual on February 20, 2013, 08:44:42 PM
If you drive from Texas Mississippi to Wisconsin, fairly due north

FTFY
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Re: Cool Sun video
« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2013, 08:59:08 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on February 20, 2013, 10:30:59 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aTbksd5-Rdg

Speculation that it's a "spaceship sucking fuel off the sun."   ;/

It was the Ancient ship, Destiny, from Stargate Universe! Yes, I really liked the show
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Re: Cool Sun video
« Reply #14 on: February 20, 2013, 09:02:49 PM »
Quote from: Brad Johnson on February 20, 2013, 01:35:20 PM
The comments are... interesting.  There are some very cracked people out there.


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You mean "out here."  They walk among us.   :O
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Re: Cool Sun video
« Reply #15 on: February 20, 2013, 09:04:20 PM »
Quote from: Regolith on February 20, 2013, 12:08:03 PM
It's a solar prominence caused by a twisted magnetic field loop. Happens fairly often.

Basically, different parts of the sun rotate at different rates. This causes the magnetic field lines to buckle and twist, causing coronal loops. When the streams cross, the loop breaks and you get a solar prominence. A really big one can cause solar flares and CMEs when the broken ends of the magnetic loop reconnect.



cool, a solar tornado!   =D
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