July 2, 2002

  • Rarely do I blog a private post.  What's the purpose?  Both my public and private posts undoubtedly will be subpoened someday at my insanity commitment hearing (my defense will be a shrilling cry: "But I'm already committed!  I'm already committed!" ). 


    Still there occurs now and then an occasion or so when I'll write something so off the wall and palpably lacking in creative import or entertainment value that I'll just allow it to sit.  And rot.


    Such was the case at the end of Monday when I tersely scribbled and privately posted the following:


    The Sun's coming around.  Sure enough.  Just around the bend.


    What the hell was that supposed to be?  Quite profound, no?  LMAO   And yet...yet...it felt profound, profound enough to commit, yet too abstruse to share.


    Until this morning, when I read this on NASA's SOHO site:


    Molten Curl
    A huge, curling solar prominence in extreme ultraviolet light (ionized helium at 304Å) was seen erupting from the Sun on 1 July 2002. Prominences are huge clouds of relatively cool, dense plasma suspended in the Sun's hot, tenuous corona. Magnetic fields built up enormous forces that propelled particles out beyond the Sun's surface. Emission in this spectral line shows the upper chromosphere at a temperature of about 60,000 degrees K. For a sense of scale, the prominence seems to extend at least 30 Earths. There is a second prominence in the upper right as well.



    But even more interesting than the bent protrusion at the lower left is the activity at the upper right.  I have my notions, but what do you think that looks like? Mwuahahaha.

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