Solar Tsunami Inbound!

[RobCoxxy]

I hope, I really hope it means we get the northern lights around england. I've always wanted to see them and I plan to travel to norway when I can go to adventuring.

Not until the magnetic poles go into flux, buddy.
Then we'll have magnetic north/south poles popping up all over the world. AURORA BOREALIS FOR EVERYONE!

Although compasses will be useless for a millenia.

Ahh but Qi informed me they have been seen as far south as rome, I shall go check this information. Though admitedly they are very very rare. My hope was/is that this large activity from the sun translates into pretty for all of us!

I will not argue with Stephen Fry.
BRING ON THE BOREALIS THEN.

 

[Cabisco]

I hope, I really hope it means we get the northern lights around england. I've always wanted to see them and I plan to travel to norway when I can go to adventuring.

Not until the magnetic poles go into flux, buddy.
Then we'll have magnetic north/south poles popping up all over the world. AURORA BOREALIS FOR EVERYONE!

Although compasses will be useless for a millenia.

Ahh but Qi informed me they have been seen as far south as rome, I shall go check this information. Though admitedly they are very very rare. My hope was/is that this large activity from the sun translates into pretty for all of us!

I will not argue with Stephen Fry.
BRING ON THE BOREALIS THEN.

Guess fucking what?

We might do, tonight!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/aug/05/northern-lights-england

They also apparently where around last night be cloud cover stopped most of it.

Here's hoping the cloud fuck off so we have a chance to see one of the most amazing sights in the world.

 

[Robyrt]

In the 70s, Storm of the X-Men could use her weather powers to sail on the solar wind. This was retconned because it makes no sense, but the hilarity remains.

Because manipulating the weather at will made any more sense anyway.

Not having a shot at you, I just found it hilarious. XD

The whole power is pretty vague, yeah, but Storm makes a lot of noise about her powers being tied to a primal connection with the Earth. Shooting lightning bolts in space is bad enough, as I can only assume she's ionizing herself and firing attitude jets at the target to create them.

A lot of super powers are much less fun when treated scientifically. Magneto would ruin all electronics anywhere near him, Superman would generally punch straight through something instead of moving it in one piece, and Batman would be using a walker.

 

[RobCoxxy]

I hope, I really hope it means we get the northern lights around england. I've always wanted to see them and I plan to travel to norway when I can go to adventuring.

Not until the magnetic poles go into flux, buddy.
Then we'll have magnetic north/south poles popping up all over the world. AURORA BOREALIS FOR EVERYONE!

Although compasses will be useless for a millenia.

Ahh but Qi informed me they have been seen as far south as rome, I shall go check this information. Though admitedly they are very very rare. My hope was/is that this large activity from the sun translates into pretty for all of us!

I will not argue with Stephen Fry.
BRING ON THE BOREALIS THEN.

Guess fucking what?

We might do, tonight!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/aug/05/northern-lights-england

They also apparently where around last night be cloud cover stopped most of it.

Here's hoping the cloud fuck off so we have a chance to see one of the most amazing sights in the world.

TOO CLOUDY D:
I want my Northern Lights. And I don't mean Blackpool Illuminations. ¬_¬

 

[Continuity]

Black holes, they can be any size, and no matter what they all suck in everything.

We can all die at any moment if a tiny black hole just waltzed through your room.

Mmm no actually, black holes emit hawking radiation, tiny black holes only exist for fractions of a second before they fizzle out - plus it would be impossible to feed that tiny black hole with enough mass to keep it alive here on earth, our massive objects simply aren't dense enough, a tiny black hole (assuming it could survive for more than a fraction of a second) could travel though the whole planet and not hit another particle.

 

[twillman15]

In the 70s, Storm of the X-Men could use her weather powers to sail on the solar wind. This was retconned because it makes no sense, but the hilarity remains.

Because manipulating the weather at will made any more sense anyway.

Not having a shot at you, I just found it hilarious. XD

The whole power is pretty vague, yeah, but Storm makes a lot of noise about her powers being tied to a primal connection with the Earth. Shooting lightning bolts in space is bad enough, as I can only assume she's ionizing herself and firing attitude jets at the target to create them.

A lot of super powers are much less fun when treated scientifically. Magneto would ruin all electronics anywhere near him, Superman would generally punch straight through something instead of moving it in one piece, and Batman would be using a walker.

I remember seeing a picture of superman punching a hole through batman s head somewhere. But on another note the whole vastness of space amazes me.

 

[Mana Fiend]

Got far too much cloud here for the northern lights. Probably too far south too. However, I have Zoolander on, so got the blinds open and hoping that I'll get to see them.

Always wanted to see them, it's actually a dream of mine.

 

[superbatranger]

This is what I like most about space. Whenever you're outside looking at the stars, you are looking at the past. Some of these stars take millions of years for their light to reach us. All those pictures taken from telescopes around the world are hundreds of thousands years old, even millions of years old.