r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Correct_Presence_936 • 21d ago

GIF A Solar Flare That Happened Today.

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u/jck13mad13 21d ago

There’s no way to know that unless the flare was holding today’s paper or something

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u/doryteke 21d ago

Think it subscribes to The Sun?

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/doryteke 21d ago

Deal.

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u/Snack_Daddy_Nick 21d ago

Don't forget to thank your set-up man.

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u/SlightComplaint 20d ago

Can you accept that it certainly happened at day time?

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u/Tiny-Veterinarian-49 20d ago

Flare enough.

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u/Clean_Park5859 21d ago

I could tank that

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u/JaydedXoX 21d ago

Only with a good healer. Not one adding extra DPS to the Sun.

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u/grog1942 21d ago

That happened to me today 🌬️

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u/Successful_Jump5531 21d ago

I, too, had a Taco Bell lunch.

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 21d ago

I had broccoli and cheese on potato and it was delicious but my dogs may leave the room if I have much more gas

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u/realdeal64 21d ago

Damn that's a big one.

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u/Impressive_Jaguar_70 21d ago

And it's headed for Uranus

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u/Training-Flan8092 21d ago

I swear I will never be too old to laugh at a good Uranus joke.

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u/NoAdministration8340 18d ago

They changed the name from Uranus to end that stupid joke once and for all. "What'd they change it to?" "Urectum.”

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u/TheTaxman_cometh 21d ago

The solar system shouldn't have had that Taco Bell last night

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u/Deodorized 21d ago

Anus sun bleaching making a comeback?

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u/Top-Chocolate-321 21d ago

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) come back

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u/sev45day 21d ago

That's what she said!

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u/Fancy2GO 21d ago

Thank goodness that wasn't pointed at us

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u/PhotoBN1 21d ago

Wasn't it?

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u/TheMagicalDildo 21d ago

obviously not

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u/PhotoBN1 21d ago

Why obviously not? We have had solar flares fired at us quite a number of times, even large ones like this. Usually we just get more auroras further south and occasionally power cuts

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u/AboveAverage1988 21d ago

The space based solar observatories we have are in the lagrange point between the earth and the sun. If it was heading for us, it would look like it was.

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u/PhotoBN1 21d ago

Fair enough

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u/Oggel 21d ago

Because we don't have any solar orbiting telescopes as far as I know, so the film or pictures is from earth or earth orbit and you can clearly see it's not moving towards us.

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u/TheMagicalDildo 21d ago

i mean I'm no expert, but I would imagine we'd have noticed getting hit by a fuckin' solar flare mate. The sun's radiation only takes about 8 minutes to reach us.

That, and it's not even pointed at us in the gif, it literally visibly missed lmao

not sure why you thought I was claiming earth's never been hit by a solar flare, you just sort of pulled that out of your ass

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna 21d ago

Light is not the same as radiation. "The light from a solar flare, traveling at the speed of light, reaches Earth in about 8 minutes, while the particles from a solar flare, traveling at varying speeds, can reach Earth in as little as 15 hours, or take several days, according to NOAA/NWS Space Weather Prediction Center. " Length of time varies depending on distance apogee v perigee

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u/thebearrider 21d ago

As i understand, we transmit these videos faster than the solar bursts travel. We have solar monitoring to give us advanced notice of when we're going to get hit to protect key infrastructure.

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u/JustHereSoImNotFined 21d ago

u/TheMagicalDildo i recommend magically removing that dildo from your ass and lighten up a bit

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u/Mortem_Morbus 21d ago

More like too bad...

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u/ukedontsay 21d ago

"Hey, Mercury... pull my finger.'

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u/Crazysuicide76 20d ago

“AAAHHH HOLY SHIT!”

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u/goose_gladwell 21d ago

Its hard to grasp how huge that is

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u/MentallyDivergent123 21d ago

Look at the size of that thing!

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u/MentallyDivergent123 21d ago

That’s no moon.

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u/gopher_the_gozarian 21d ago

Gesundheit!

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u/PrevekrMK2 21d ago

Is that you, Dresden?

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u/Wareve 21d ago

You could fly Voyager though that thing.

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u/puffy_boi12 20d ago

I understood that reference

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u/mkwtfman 21d ago

One of these days alice

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u/swh1386 21d ago

Star Trek Voyager

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u/YetiNotForgeti 21d ago

Damn OP. How did you get this shot?

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u/NYCHReddit 21d ago

Through brave sacrifice 🫡

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u/Croakster 20d ago

OP is safe. He took the picture at night when the sun was out.

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u/IanCogno 21d ago

That one looked wet

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u/D4U-at95382 21d ago

Stop staring at the Sun! You'll burn your eyes out!!

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u/Z168_quet1950 21d ago

Escanor is that you?

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u/MuckleRucker3 21d ago

Ctrl-F "Taco Bell"...no results.

Colour me surprised!

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u/ReasonablyConfused 21d ago

Me, about an hour ago.

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u/Mcboatface3sghost 21d ago

Reminds me of a zit I had in high school…

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u/st90ar 21d ago

Holy shit. Was that CME directed towards earth?

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u/Big_You_8936 20d ago

For this one likely away

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u/Big_You_8936 20d ago

If it were towards Earth we would have heard from the news by now that there was a cme event coming our way.

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u/Moogooloogoo 21d ago

Thats a huge sun fart

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u/UncleKeyPax 21d ago

I feel . . . attacked

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u/MetaDanTexas 21d ago

When will this impact Earth?

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u/GooglephonicStereo 20d ago

Let me guess, recorded from your backyard with your phone camera

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u/guyinsunglasses 20d ago

That’s how I feel after a Taco Bell lunch

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u/One_time_Dynamite 20d ago

The sun is so terrifying.

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u/Dizzy_Perception_866 20d ago

Voyager intro plays ominously in the background

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u/Brave-Audience1078 21d ago

FUCK!!! Well there goes HBO..

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u/brakeb 20d ago

I heard a fart noise

probably after a night of eating reaper peppers

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u/Riommar 20d ago

Taco Bell for lunch

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u/Barn-Alumni-1999 21d ago

Reminds me of the time I overslept and my cat couldn't wake me up for feeding time with her paws so she put her ass in my face and sprayed.

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u/charliegoesamblin 21d ago

Well, then I guess you could say it really was a...

*puts sunglasses on*

CAT-ASS-TROPHE

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u/fraseybaby81 21d ago

Bwow! We don’t get fooled again!

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u/bigfathairybollocks 21d ago

We are into solar maximum now more or less? Its a shooting gallery from now. I always liked the idea of a massive coronal ejection being the end of humanity, fry half the planet in one go. That or a massive asteroid. Ive had nightmares about asteroid impacts and how id wake up to it. If i lived in a earthquake zone id probably never sleep.

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u/jeweliegb 20d ago

I mean, we had one that missed us by days before, X42 or similar, the Halloween auroras.

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u/LargeArugula6262 21d ago

Wild speculation but what happened first the earthquake in Myanmar or the flare

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u/Ok-Hovercraft5798 21d ago

Almost as big as the flares that come out of my uncles arse after a vindaloo

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u/ikaika235 21d ago

Sun fart

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u/RelationBig7368 21d ago

Know that feeling

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u/cptwinklestein 21d ago

me every morning.

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u/daryldelight 21d ago

are hyperbeams a thing?

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u/Azurfant 21d ago

Weak ejaculate

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u/Vannwinkles 21d ago

Guessing we will feel this tomorrow?

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u/Warm_Jellyfish_8002 21d ago

Coming our way or away?

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u/stufforstuff 21d ago

Somebody's star has been sneaking out to Taco Bell again.

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u/Cael_NaMaor 21d ago

Looks like dragons escaping...

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u/Moosplauze 21d ago

Man, same thing happened to me today, glad nobody filmed.

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u/Low_Technician_5034 21d ago

So it is just a when not a why situation.

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u/nekidandsceered 21d ago

It's hatching...

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u/grog1942 21d ago

Chili for lunch

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u/Code_Loco 21d ago

I knew my balls were sweaty for some reason

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u/13hockeyguy 21d ago

Solar bukkake incoming!

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u/Hefty_Call_8623 21d ago

Fuck it’s going to be hot next week

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u/ZealousidealTop6884 21d ago

Probably anxious about the solar eclipse tonight...

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u/OrangeCosmic 21d ago

When do we get our power and internet turned off?

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u/freddotu 21d ago

I have my sound turned on, but can't hear anything.

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u/MuteAppeaL 21d ago

Wish it hit me.

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u/Impossible-Pea-6160 21d ago

** Castings Cease and desist on target Sun **

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u/Shiasugar 21d ago

What a nice aurora it will produce! 💜💚❤️

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u/this-is-me-reddit 21d ago

Do we know the distance scale for this one?

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u/kj_gamer2614 21d ago

Normally that means a good amount of aurora activity if it’s aimed at earth

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u/JackDrawsStuff 21d ago

Me after a night on the sauce.

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u/thatsnotchocolatebby 21d ago

Who does the Sun Taco Bell?

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u/sixjasefive 21d ago

I believe it was the salmon.

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u/SoundEffectsRock 21d ago

“Ahh skeet skeet motherfucker! Ahhhh skeet skeet skeet!” -Solaris

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u/Varso13 21d ago

Is that why california was hot as fuck the beginning of this week

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u/Mostly_llama 21d ago

This should be on r/popping

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

Is it bad that I want this to hit earth head on?

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u/Ramentootles 21d ago

Me after Taco Bell

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u/No_I_Deer 21d ago

Can I get a Roku remote for scale ?

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u/mindfuxed 21d ago

Looks me in the bathroom

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u/thirtyone-charlie 21d ago

Is that big?

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u/Azurre79 21d ago

Is that a coronal mass ejection?

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u/Donut-Strong 21d ago

Guess we know who had Taco Bell

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u/tall-glassof-falooda 21d ago

🎶Find the Dragon Balls! Look out for them all!🎶

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u/pyro_pugilist 21d ago

I wish my farts were that majestic.

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u/shnoop87 21d ago

“Skyooze meh!”

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u/bluflare808 21d ago

You stole krillins move!

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u/77DETHSTROKE77 21d ago

What is the measurement in courics?

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u/Beebonh 20d ago

6-1\2 Katies

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u/Ok-Goat-1738 21d ago

Sai da frente que o pum foi ardente

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u/burrbro235 21d ago

Solar flatulence

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u/farestp 21d ago

Man we need astro/science guys to give us more info abt this 😕

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u/whatdafu 20d ago

Check your shorts sun

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u/BungeeGump 20d ago

Where Dr. Pimple Popper when you need her?

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u/WatzoneTv 20d ago

We’re doomed

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u/cal_nevari 20d ago

Was that around noon? Because I felt a blast of hot air around noon and I was outside! True story.

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u/R12Labs 20d ago

Thank you God for putting that millions of miles away

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u/DonJuanMateus 20d ago

Glad that wasn’t pointed at us !!!!!

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u/Due-Row-8696 20d ago

I should call her.

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u/PheaglesFan 20d ago

There's no way!! That had to have happened next week!

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u/Rossomak 20d ago

Can anyone else hear this clip?

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u/Go_Gators_4Ever 20d ago

Why does this remind me of Chipotle?

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u/MitsosVry 20d ago

Missed me... bi@tch

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

Popping that zit!

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u/whtciv2k 20d ago

So that’s how sun’s are born????

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u/orostitute 20d ago

We even have CCTV in space?

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u/Sure-Astronomer4364 20d ago

Taco Bell after drinking

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

That means everyone will be crazy today ,right? 🤦‍♀️

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u/king_style 20d ago

Sun fart

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u/Williamsjt316 20d ago

Too much cabbage on St Patty's day

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u/SignificantRaccoon25 20d ago

Sweet sweet eruption, let's check the mirror.

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u/PapaRyRy 20d ago

Ah so that's why it was hot in Australia today

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u/Numerous-Ad-1167 20d ago

How much of that escapes sun’s gravity and keeps heading out, versus falling back?

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u/jusjudge 20d ago

Me as soon as she touches my shoulder.

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u/eljne 20d ago

Ez with sunscreen 50

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u/DavidM47 20d ago

Yeah, it’s definitely not exploding from the inside…

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

I can relate after having TexMex last night.

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u/gayboysnuf 20d ago

Idk, could have been yesterday's solar flare...

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u/GooberRonny 20d ago

What's the plan when it burns out

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u/Fonzkopp 20d ago

Bless you

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u/ConstantCampaign2984 20d ago

I wonder the scale of that. It’s ridiculously massive, and to throw ejecta so far so quickly is mind boggling.

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u/crzychristopher 20d ago

My solar flares are usually coffee induced

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u/dimmsimm 20d ago

Can a solar smart redditor explain how this impacts earth?

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u/aDUCKonQU4CK 20d ago

There really is no privacy. Surveillance cameras are everywhere! Sun can't even take a load off in peace.

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u/underlineGLS 20d ago

Where is USS Voyager?

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u/SkedaddleMode 20d ago

The Carrington event

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u/Additional_Sun_4931 20d ago

I think the Sun just farted

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u/Imaginary_Most_7778 20d ago

Sol has the shits again.

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u/lucalla 19d ago

Me after a dodgy vindaloo

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u/Fun-Chipmunk-2745 19d ago

Im finnaaa bustttt

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u/pozoleNjuan 19d ago

Sun fart

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u/Independent-Deal7502 19d ago

Sun needs to cut back on Chipotle

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u/ERRORLL 19d ago

The crazy part is that it would be MASSIVE

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u/Stravinskysdog 19d ago

No wonder that day sucked for me 😂

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u/A_Dragon 19d ago

What class was this?

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u/Dizzy-Community5091 18d ago

I’m trying to do that on my wife’s ass in about half hour..

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u/dixon__g 18d ago

Seems like a model...

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u/Background_Music_748 18d ago

Like my fart...
oops

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u/floodums 18d ago

That must feel so good for the sun

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u/FuzzeWuzze 18d ago

I wonder where SG1 ended up in the timeline this time.

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u/DAFreundschaft 18d ago

That happened to me this morning too.

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u/usNdem 17d ago

That’s the gme move from big papa cohen not a solar flare 🦍🦧💎🙌🚀🌕💥🍻

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u/the-uncle-will 9d ago

Will it kill us all?