If it happened on the other side of the sun, then how did "they" take a picture of it?
Maybe I could look up the answer, but since we have a resident expert who teaches on the topic.. I thought I would ask.
Firstly, I am not an expert; merely an enthusiast searching for another hours-long, rainbow-coloured, aurora borealis fix before I die.
Firstly, your quote is messed up, so you "surely" don't have an expertise in quoting.
Nonetheless, I believe that I was able to figure out which were your statements, which were mine, which er ESG's and which were quotes of quotes.
Secondly, from my point of view, you are sufficiently high enough on the rung of various random skills (including potentially some unknown ones) to constitute a relative expert.. whether you appreciate such label or not, I am going to try to butter up to you, to the extent that I am capable of such for more than 5 minutes, as much as I can.
The animation I posted is from a series of images take by the LASCO (Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph) - Chronograph 3 to be precise which measures white light in a wide radius around the sun ie 30 radii) on board the SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) satellite which is located 1.5 million kilometers away from earth, locked into the earth-sun orbit and always facing the sun. There is a disk to blot out the actual solar disk (because it's way too bright) so that the chronograph only images the solar corona and uses long exposure time to capture light emitted by ejected plasma (C3 takes a 26 second exposure).
Sounds expert-like to this here cat.
Even though the CME is directed away from earth, the plasma is visible as it spreads outward from the sun. There are other sensors abord SOHO that record data related to the emission which would indicate if it were earth directed or not. The best indication, from the animation alone, that the CME is not earth directed, is that the image does not quickly become oversaturated as the brightness overwhelms the sensors. I think it's common knowledge than it takes about 8 minutes for light to travel from the sun to the earth (~1% less time to arrive at SOHO) so the image would quickly oversaturate if it were earth-directed.
I kind of understand. so there is that...
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That's old news actually. Stereo-B went into an uncontrolled spin sometime in 2014 and they gave up on periodic attempts to establish communications back in 2018. Stereo-A is still working but it currently orbits the sun about 45° ahead of our planet so it would be more of a front-side view. It does give a better perspective for earth directed CMEs though.
A - the current location of Stereo-A (kind of a misnomer now... maybe they should rename it Mono)
PSP - Parker Space Probe
SO - Solar Orbiter (European-lead project)
I feel a wee tiny bit MOAR smarter.
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As i said, dealing with fatalities is totally different for me, emotionally. Pretty often when i get told someone i knew passed away, i can't suppress a smile, while i know that this reaction is perceived totally wrong in my environment. Some people know, though. It's just so overwhelming for me that my mind pulls the breaks and kicks in reverse while hitting the gas at the same time. I also never seem to find words of solace. Strange, but i'm not a careless guy at all.
I think some people will smile when they feel uncomfortable..
i wonder if some form of uncomfortableness (like not really knowing what to do) might be part of the explanation for your smiling in such "bad news" circumstances?
Edit: Perhaps, like how Biodom mentioned it.?
Has the coronal mass ejection killed the spirits and activity here?
No, I am just watching. Bitcoin back over $110K feels like a good thing. As with I think most people right now, I am watching to see if this bull run has
one last hurrah left in it, or if $126K is going to be the high for the year.
One last hurrah in it? Oh gawd you have irritating "know it all" wannabe inclinations that you cannot resist but to spout out about, and you sometimes speculate (demonstrate wonder) why guys are irritated by you and your supposed level of knowledge (always correctness).
Another thing is that I envision why you are likely to repeat the same pattern as you have done historical in reference to your inability to hang onto your bitcoin and proclaiming that you are smarter than everyone else - which ends up playing out as a way of selling way too many coins too early.. and you cannot even help ur lil selfie in your inclinations to have funzies staying poor (or really failing to get rich in any kind of meaningful way) while framing yourself as a once in a lifetime genius based on whatever gainz you had been able to "lock in" within a process in which you are a no coiner or a low coiner while BTC prices continue to shoot up and you are buying Tesla trucks and other useless depreciating junk in order to show off how smart you are.
Opinion seems pretty equally split at the moment. Here's an update from polymarket. Seems the market has gotten slightly more bullish since the last update.
44% = >$130K (up 2%)
*25% = $90K-$130K (up 3%)
31% = <$90K (down 5%)
*inferred
Bitcoin HODLers decide what to do based on short-term trading sentiment? Good luck with that.
I bet that in about September 2017, there were a lot of folks saying that they were selling between $3k and $5k, and how did those sales work out for those guys? not too well. I can recall.
Of course, this time is going to work out MOAR better.. right? You got it all figured out this time, right?
