The Sun flares and sends out a blast of gas

[alfon375]

And the Oscar of largest youtube video goes to ......... TheBadAstronomer!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!

[MrSpellcheck]

*poot*

[Thedudewiththepiano]

I love the part at 0.15

[nunoooooooooo]

I enjoyed the beginning and the end but the middle part is just plain boring

[mhoytus]

How much is that video sped up?

[twfeiyu]

what the hell is it?

sun farted ？ or Ejaculated ?

[StL33T]

it farted

[Semidicht]

i prefer the one at 0:02

[gammelgymsokk]

i especially enjoyed the part at 0:01

[dominictemple]

Pretty.

[JamesTCA]

That missile from next to Los Angeles did it!

[eggnoggerino]

The sun just farted!

[sharpezor]

@eggnoggerino yeah thanks for repeating it for the 100th time in the comments. you're truly a master of creativity.

[uberget]

@sharpezor The sun just farted!

Problem, officer?

[sharpezor]

@uberget heh...

[eggnoggerino]

@sharpezor - well - I didn't look through the comments before posting that. You have obviously too much time on your hands, hence this retaliatory reply. Well done. I hope you feel truly superior.

[Th1sWasATriumph]

It hurts me that videos about Nibiru are appearing on the same page as Grandmaster Plait's patient love of awesome things.

Hurts me BAD.

[1noen1]

Obviously a missile fired by the Pleadians.

[ablanchi]

is this actual time?

[johnjaksic61]

The sun spot activity has been unusually low ---may be we are due for more sun spots & thus storms--more data is needed--good post!

[MikeSynonymous]

Is that in real time? ( I know that's a relative question!) It's amazingly fast and energetic! I also agree about uploading a slowed down version!

[TheBetterGame]

Seriously?

[thenatrix]

PEW!

[sterlingman]

Too short :-(

[HealingBlight]

It farted.

[CanisMajor0511]

Impressive. With a slow motion version we could observe the filament longer, though.

[BASSLINESSSS]

fart

[JimPrower]

I think it sneezed.

[Mituhori]

Instant chick fry rice!

[RPKGameVids]

Instant sun tan.

[tekhiun]

Solar Fart

[snakept69]

sniff...

HO NOOO! Sun cmon man?!! Thats not cool!

[ablanchi]

thats hot.

[GreatExterminator]

It's too fast, needs slow motion!

[Prodigyexam12]

Question: I read about an impending solar flare in 2013 that's supposedly doomsday material. Is this true and if so, any way to protect it?

[Prodigyexam12]

@Prodigyexam12 I meant protect technology not the flare.

[GreatExterminator]

@Prodigyexam12

It's the solar max. Not nessarily doomsday material, just a period of high activity. Sort of like hurricane season on Earth; lots of storms, but doesn't mean every city will be destroyed.

AFAIK, if we monitor the sun and see a strong event coming, then we can do shut downs of large areas to avoid a blowout. Again, that's AFAIK.

[Prodigyexam12]

From what I've read we can only predict solar storms 10 minutes before they happen. That's not enough time to avoid major damage, is it? And wouldn't technology be affected either way it's on or not? Wouldn't we need a way to protect it from the storm?

[GreatExterminator]

@Prodigyexam12

It really depends how intense the storm is, AFAIK.

Some take days to effect us. The strongest ones would be in minutes. And that really depends how fast one can act.

Again, AFAIK the main thing we'd protect would be our power grid. With no current going through, it could survive the induction caused by Earth's magnetic field responding to a solar storm.

Other people know more about this than I.

[slikrx]

@Prodigyexam12 As Greatexterminator said, timing is rather variable.

As for protecting ourselves, the o nlu things that are vulnerable are the electric grid and everything attached, and then, only if the grid is up & running. If the "breakers" (or whatever they're called on large scale) are opened, and the generators are disconnected, they should be safe.

Keep in mind, even though many call the effect "electromagnetic pulse"/ "EMP" It's not the same as a nuclear EMP

[slikrx]

@slikrx - The mechanisms for each are very different.

A nuclear EMP affects pretty much every electric conductor that is oriented correctly, and isn't shielded (in a Faraday cage or euquivalent) It creates a large electric surge on even the smallest conductors and wires.

A "solar EMP" only generates significant voltage on long wires (as in miles long).

[bshieldsbb01]

2 seconds for a Solar Fart?

[TurboDally]

It's heading for Earth, WE'RE DOOMED!

[lampyman101]

Didn't the sun just fart? It should have lit it for comic effect and it could have ended up on Ray William Johnstons channel ;0)

[47f0]

And that, my friends, is how a terrawatt, electro-magnetic plasma zit gets popped.

[wolverine005]

ME RUV U RONG TIME

[EdouardDubois]

Don't think I've ever seen a 2 second video on the Tube before...

[tehAndyYT]

Your such a bad astronomer. You could have slowed this video down, replayed it a few times for dramatic effect...

Oh, wait, sorry my bad. Astronomy doesn't involve using programs to make 2 seconds of footage extremely cool.

[mark0032]

Tehehehehehe the sun farted

[Igotnogod]

@mark0032 Damn you! that is what i was gonna say!

[truvelocity]

Too long!  Wasted a precious nano second of my time.

[billybob1212]

omg at least remove the ad! i want to see the full video

[TheEyesOfNye]

0:01 is the Twilight Zone!!! 0.0

[christheferal]

OMG! Pause at 0:01

[christheferal]

@christheferal Actually... that's kinda funny, my YouTube player skips 0:01, keeps going straight from 0:00 to 0:02

[Akhotnik]

lol.....you could at least caption the video...give us some background info. How weak is this? Unsubscribed. 

[LouigiVerona]

I just wish the video was shorter

[TothAnubis]

@LouigiVerona

right, we dont have so much time to watch !

[jamesbest254]

you're stupid

[christiankarlsson]

Premature video post? Geez... some comment and a slow motion???

[Chrisjr2007]

BTW,what you are looking at is a Coronal Mass Ejection(CME) and it is heading towards the Earth.Which will produce auroras on the North and South Pole.(Nov.14-15).

[mvszao]

Thumbs up if you're going to the north pole see that beautiful aurora!

[supopwa]

first we had sunspots, now we have sunfarts. what's next? drunken phonecalls?

hey, is that in real time? that filament seems to be moving mighty fast. and where is it going?

[Raphaelus13]

this made me laugh for some reason

[PlanetoftheAtheists]

this video reminds me of my sex life for some reason...dont ask why, not sure myself

[Vorbis5]

/rand

[KodierungHerz]

geez.. a slow motion sequence, please.

[zarkoff45]

The sun farted?

[kellhiro]

lmao the sun has hot gas dorf ^_^

[AtheistGlitch]

Great zombie jesus that was fast.

[FlowCell]

Lay off the spicy tacos.