In a solar tsunami, a huge explosion near the Sun, such as a coronal mass ejection or flare, causes a pressure pulse to propagate outwards in a circular pattern.
Last year’s solar tsunami, which took place on 19 May 2007, lasted for about 35 minutes, reaching peak speeds about 20 minutes after the initial blast.
Co-author David Long, from Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland, commented: “The energy released in these explosions is phenomenal; about two billion times the annual world energy consumption in just a fraction of a second.
I blame Bush.
Damned dirty apes. Cannibal dirty damned apes.
Damned dirty cannibal Republican apes.
and Kyoto. but not Halliburton…. this time.
All that wasted energy. I think Chaney is behind this. So is Karl Rove. He only pretended to quit being Bush’s advisor.
Has Ted Turner been in for a mental health screening recently? If not, it would be a very good idea if he did.
*cuckoo*
Interesting that he chooses to frame the energy output that way– it sort of puts into perspective how little energy, really, we consume, even as the gluttonous Westerners that we are.
Of course, given how large Al Gore’s “carbon footprint” is, they may have had to exclude his energy use from that particular comparison.
As a not astronomically ignorant person, reading that article made an explosion near my head.
Algore the global warming profiteer can be blamed but this might beyond his influence. After all this is not his baby anymore
Tangentially related…
For the last year or so, the aquarium here in SoCal has been advertising on teevee with some surfer dude named Corky something or other talking about how they have an educational program there which will teach you about “why tsunamis have such a big effect on people who live near the ocean.”
Um, what’s to learn? Tsunamis kill those people and/or wash their property out to sea. Seems like a pretty short lesson.
Corky the Unflushable
Ted Turner is living proof that any idiot with a little gumption and inherited money can become filthy rich. Is this a great country or what?
We’ll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals
Of course by then, it will be difficult for Ted to enjoy a nice babychop, as he will be just a head submerged in amniotic fluid hooked up to a bunch of wires and tubes.
“We’ll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals”
Eight degrees will do that? So Michigan in summer will have the mean average temperature of Georgia now and nothing will grow?
Oh, and China has no history of imperial military conquest. And everything would be better if a lot of those pesky humans would just up and die already.
What a twit.
Just how the hell is that supposed to work?
Rob, he thinks about this a lot. So when you’re being cannibalised, I expect you to admit that he’s right.
How long before Turner starts shuffling around with tissue-boxes for shoes?
I, for one, am hankering for some of that sweet, succulent Soylent Green.
Suddenly, his decision to marry Jane Fonda makes sense to me.
I think there’s somebody working on it.
ESCR may be involved.
Eh? Not enough marbling on that one. Laeticia Casta, on the other hand…