05.11.2010

Nothing but sunshine

No, this isn’t b-roll footage from 2012. Silly rabbit, they used all the b-roll footage in the film! This is real video AIA caught of a prominence eruption — which is just scientist-talk for sun fart. And given a human being’s ability to clear a room with the passing of a foul wind, I think it’s pretty safe to say that the Mayans were scared for a reason.

That “emission line,” as AIA calls it, clocks in at a mean 50,000 degrees Celsius. Hot damn! You basically can’t even go that high in Fahrenheit, I checked.

solar eruption youtube comment Nothing but sunshine

Ah, the Internet… where science allows stupidity to run rampant like never before.

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