A solar wind stream from a Coronal Hole on the I-Sun is set to hit Earth on April 20th.
Its a good reminder to back up your files, else feel the wrath of the deadly sun fart. Here is a cool site to watch from NASA with movies of the I-Sun in action while you are waiting for those files to download, transfer, burn, etc.
Since I’m too damn stupid to know how to embed a video in a comment…. This is my response to The Moon Doesn’t Give a Shit!
If you are out somewhere on the evening of March 19th (this Sat) try to take a sneak peak at the moon. This moon is known as a super “perigee” moon. The last time the moon was so big and close to the Earth was March of 1993.
Listen to Randall over at NASA as he explains about the perigee full moon. I keep waiting for him to say “The Moon doesn’t give it shit. It just orbits there. It doesn’t care…” I also love how he says “apogee and perigee.” He also narrates some other goodies for NASA here.
Watch your trolling on Sat night Randall honey, cause you may need this to save your ass. Who knows? Just avoid it if you do want those wolves to tear it up.
And far enough not to be impacted by our sun’s solar winds…
Voyager 1 is now at the edge of solar system. It is amazing to think that this ship has less computing power then my cell phone, and yet it has seen things and will continue to see things that we can only imagine.
I think that Carl Sagan summed up the Voyager mission best and it makes me happy that even though he is no longer with us, Voyager is…and will be long after we have gone.
I think a bunch of people in funny clothes, with funny hairdos, who don’t know the slightest thing about soap just decided to get more attention.
Apparently some unwashed dork thought it’d be cool to add another sign to the zodiac. The new one is called “Ophiuchus”, like leo the lion or cancer the crab, this is probably like some stupid space-turnip. Here’s the article so you can pretend it has ANY affect on your life whatsoever.
http://io9.com/5733004/your-zodiac-sign-may-have-changed-this-week
Apparently leo’s and virgo’s are the only ones this works on. Will is now a Leo. My Mom is a Leo.
Whoop dee dang doodlee doo!
(The only significance is that someone close to me had to call me excited and tell me about it! Hahahaha!)
Congrats to all for another orbit around a big hot ball of burning gas 🙂
In the early hours of this Tuesday, the earth will eclipse the moon. What makes this lunar eclipse so special, is that it is just happens to coincide the Winter Solstice.
While it may seem like no big deal, this event marks the longest day of winter. After this, the days will gradually get longer, and then next thing you know…its time to break out the tight black wife beaters. So if you are out or up, drunk or sober, take a peek out the window and see if you can spot that red moon and know that we are still spinning on a rock with a ball of its inners, orbiting around an immense ball of hot gas.
With all the hate going towards the government and anything it pays, yet still cashing their checks these days, the rocket scientists at NASA announce that they have “an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life ” that exists in arsenic ponds on….Mars?….Venus?…no Earth.
If life can exist in arsenic ponds here, it has to on other worlds which contain arsenic. And oxygen. And carbon. And nitrogen. And water. So, when looking for other life, we need to look for other Earths right? So how is this a breakthrough? In a time when space travel, space telescopes, space shuttles, and even NASA itself is on the chopping block, this is not the kind of PR campaign that is going to keep your doors open and keep the enlightenment of finding out about the universe we live in ALIVE from the those whom want us to live in the DARK and under the FEAR of an all seeing and all knowing celestial dictator.
Cause it looks like this one is coming our way.
Altho, its only a “B” class flare, you may want to back up your files with discs vs USB stick…
NASA is developing a “Solar Shield” to protect our power grids from geomagnetically induced currents, which are caused by massive CME events.
Although the solar shield (with wings) has not been tested, it beats wrapping tin foil around your head.
