Surreal Face On Sun

[Psmith]

I keep an eye on the Soho images of the sun, just to be on the safe side. This is what the sun is displaying today, (MDI Continuum).

Rather goofy, (but dangerous looking), mouth. I wonder what it means?

Greg Smith

[Tony Nemo]

Convection, most likely.

[Greg]

Convection, most likely.

lol@Tony!

[Psmith]

Well, the sun just fired off an M class flare and another is expected.

Never trust a smiling face.

Greg Smith

[Psmith]

More sinister by the day:

[Tony Nemo]

The sun has gone through a hot patch. Perhaps more of the same.

[GeeJay]

I keep an eye on the Soho images of the sun, just to be on the safe side.

Erm, excuse my ignorance, but to be on the safe side of what?

[Tony Nemo]

Erm, excuse my ignorance, but to be on the safe side of what?

The "safe side" of ignorance of impending disaster, presumably. Nasty expression may presage an EMP event or something.

[Psmith]

Watch out when it is looking straight at us.

Greg Smith

[Tony Nemo]

Is that a smile or a malevolent grin?

[Psmith]

Tony:

It's definitely a malevolent grin, from what I can gather - and which all scientific evidence points to.

Greg Smith

[spacepainter]

So will you share your wisdom or is it a riddle?

[Digital777]

The human mind creates images, it's the same as when you look at clouds and think there is faces or shapes etc.

I can sort of see a forum smiley in a few of them though.

[Psmith]

Here's the latest from NASA:

“Fast-growing sunspot 1112 is crackling with solar flares. The three strongest of this 24 hour period: an M3-flare at 1910 UT on Oct. 16th, a C1-flare at 0900 UT and another C1-flare at 1740 UT on Oct. 17th. So far, none of the blasts has hurled a substantial CME toward Earth.

In addition, a vast filament of magnetism is cutting across the sun’s southern hemisphere, measuring about 400,000 km. A bright ‘hot spot’ just north of the filament’s midpoint is UV radiation from sunspot 1112. The proximity is no coincidence; the filament appears to be rooted in the sunspot below. If the sunspot flares, it could cause the entire structure to erupt. But so far, none of the flares has destabilized the filament. “

I don't think this has anything to do with "imagining" anything.

Greg Smith

[Digital777]

I don't think this has anything to do with "imagining" anything.

You didn't say anything like that before though just that you saw a face on the sun. So if you don't say what you mean you can't expect people to just know what you are thinking.

So now it seems like the sun is going to erupt, that makes things a bit more interesting...

Do you have a link or anything though, where are you reading about this? I just took a quick look on the nasa site and didn't find much about it.

[spacepainter]

One important source of information on these particles is cardiac pacemakers. Millions of these are installed in people, many of whom take trips on jet planes. They record any irregularities in the rate at which they trigger their pulses, and this information can be examined when they return to ground. These errors, among airline staff, do correlate with solar activity levels. There is also another 'down to earth' problem with these solar storm particles. Whenever computers crash for no apparent reason, some new studies suggest that these energetic particles are to blame. With more components crammed onto smaller chips, the sizes of these components has shrunk to the point that designers are now paying close attention to energetic particles from solar flares. These particles invade the manufacturing plants for these sophisticated computer chips and cause problems. The American Micro Devices K-6 processor, for example, was designed using SEU modeling programs. Because this background even at ground-level cannot be eliminated by shielding, and because it is ubiquitous, it may prove the final, ultimate limit to just how small, and how fast, designers can make the next generations of computers...http://www.solarstorms.org/Scomputers.html

[Psmith]

I usually don't "read" much about the sun's activity, since, for the last 5 years or so, nothing has been notably happening. Technically, according to what has been observed over a relatively short period of time, the sun was supposed to have been much more active than it has been - for years - in which it was supposed to be in "solar maximum".

But, the sun has, for a long time now, been displaying a very "blank face", so to speak. When I saw this latest set of images, (as that sinister "mouth" formation began to rotate into view), I figured something major could possibly be coming our way.

The sun rotates very slowly, by comparison to the earth's rotation - every 27 days, at the equator. Up until recently, the brainiest of scientists thought the sun was made of gas and is exhibiting nuclear phenomenon at all levels. However, recent photographic evidence, (able to see through the outer "atmosphere"), shows what looks like a "solid" surface that retains "geologic" features that don't change over long periods of time. This "surface" of the sun reads, spectrally, as though it were made of iron.

Also, new scientific theory, based on these and other cosmological observations suggest an "electrical" model of the universe - the sun included - and that the sun is electrical in nature - having a profound effect, electrically, on the earth, its atmosphere and magnetic fields.

http://www.thesurfaceofthesun.com/

I wonder, if what we see on this half of the sun's "face" is a smile, what the other half will present.

But, if you want to keep an eye on this, yourselves, the best current photos and time-lapse movies of the sun can be found here:

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/realtime-update.html

Greg Smith

[Tony Nemo]

Up until recently, the brainiest of scientists thought the sun was made of gas and is exhibiting nuclear phenomenon at all levels. However, recent photographic evidence, (able to see through the outer "atmosphere"), shows what looks like a "solid" surface that retains "geologic" features that don't change over long periods of time. This "surface" of the sun reads, spectrally, as though it were made of iron.

Also, new scientific theory, based on these and other cosmological observations suggest an "electrical" model of the universe - the sun included - and that the sun is electrical in nature - having a profound effect, electrically, on the earth, its atmosphere and magnetic fields.

Greg Smith

You learn something new everyday. So when the sun ends it's red giant phase, what's left in the solar system get's peppered with shrapnel? Ain't cosmology fun?

[Psmith]

Looks a bit contemplative, today.

Greg Smith

[Psmith]

Watch out!

[Psmith]

The sun in pain?

Huge eruption on Monday.

Greg Smith

[Psmith]

Here's Monday's giant flare, (700,000km long).

Greg Smith

[Tony Nemo]

That may have been the reason why my Firefox browser failed to exit full screen mode using the Esc key for a time in the afternoon.

[Psmith]

There really is a face on the sun.

Greg Smith

[Javis]

Don't anger Sol, it may consume you.

[Psmith]

Not to make light of it, (he says in fear), but this image looks very like a "grumpy sun".

Are they just making these images up and feeding them to us?

Greg Smith

[Tony Nemo]

Methinks it shows a speculative, sidelong glance, as if to say, "Yon Earth has a lean and hungry look. Such worlds are dangerous!"

[Psmith]

Today, as the sun rotates into what now seems like one of four distinct "faces", we see a depressed and melancholy expression.

Greg Smith

[Tony Nemo]

May be due to the start of a grid-locked Congress, the real possibility of a resumption of war in the middle east, Hugo Chavez' suppression of democracy in Venezuela, China's inability to house-break it's nasty neighbor in North Korea, etc, etc.

[Psmith]

Tony:

Could be, but, personally, I think he is just feeling very, very old.

Greg