Tuesday, June 19, 2012

No wonder ...

I don't have to turn on the bathroom light when I go to pee in the middle of the night.

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But Wednesday’s flare, an M1, produced a coronal mass ejection traveling at 372 miles per second (1.34 million miles per hour). While that seems incomprehensibly fast to us Earthbound travelers, the particle blast is actually “not extremely high,” according to Evans, “and so its effect is expected to be small.”

Another M-class flare erupted on Thursday along with another coronal mass ejection, and “this one appears to be stronger,” Evans told TPM, which could “result in a moderate geomagnetic storm.”

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Yes, it glows in the dark now. Heh ...

2 comments:

Gordon said...

The visual of your self-lighting "mass ejection" is a disturbing way to start the day...:-P

Fixer said...

Sorry ... ;)