Looks like naugahyde
Behold, the highest-resolution images of the sun ever taken. Each of those knobbles is about the size of Texas. These are the first pictures from the brand new 12-foot Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope at the the National Solar Observatory in Hawaii.
But that’s just the beginning. NASA launched a probe in August of 2018 and the European Space Agency has another one going in February, both intended as long-term solar observatories. Among the questions: why is the atmosphere of the sun a million degrees hotter than the surface? They also hope to observe the sun’s magnetic poles flip, a thing it does every eleven years.
I’m personally hoping they can find some sun spots. I don’t want to eek out my old age in record cold.
Coronavirus update: numbers continue to climb in China while remaining curiously flat in other affected countries. One theory (observation, really) is that Asians are more susceptible. And men more than women, by about four to one. No, I don’t have any citations for that. It came across my Twitter feed and made me go hmmmm.
Posted: January 29th, 2020 under science.
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Comment from Mitchell
Time: January 29, 2020, 9:32 pm
“One theory (observation, really) is that Asians are more susceptible. And men more than women, by about four to one. No, I don’t have any citations for that. It came across my Twitter feed and made me go hmmmm.”
If true, it would suggest that the Chinese grand poohbahs made a bio-weapon to be used against their own people to solve the gender imbalance caused by their “One Child” policy. Are you suggesting this Dame Weasel?
Comment from DurnedYankee
Time: January 29, 2020, 9:57 pm
Where’s the SUV parking lot that caused the huge temperature rise in the sun’s atmosphere?
Can’t they get one of those spy cameras to zoom in closer and see what kind of vehicles the Sun People use?
Comment from weasel again
Time: January 29, 2020, 10:17 pm
I am not suggesting it, Mitchell, but I certainly have heard it suggested. They know the specific allele that makes Asians more susceptible, though. The male thing, I have no idea how that would work.
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: January 30, 2020, 12:09 am
Well, I ‘d mentioned that in a Japan a bus driver who had never been to China came down with the Wuhan flu after driving for a group of Chinese tourists about two weeks ago.
The Japanese NHK (Think BBC) news just announced that the Tour Guide who was on that bus now has the flu.
And heeere we go!
Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: January 30, 2020, 12:10 am
Naugahyde?
More like chopped nuts.
Comment from Ama
Time: January 30, 2020, 3:41 am
Based on current observations, the incubation of the virus is usually over a week, which means in the next 4 to 10 days we will start to see the next wave of illness outside of China. And that will reveal a lot more information.
Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: January 30, 2020, 6:48 am
I was thinking chopped nuts or a big stack of firewood.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: January 30, 2020, 11:53 am
At least there’s no evidence the newly dead are rising and wandering around looking for a bowl of bat brain soup.
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: January 30, 2020, 3:21 pm
“ At least there’s no evidence the newly dead are rising and wandering around looking for a bowl of bat brain soup.”
Dammit ! No SPOILERS!
Now you’ve given away the plot to next week’s show 🙁
But, on a happier note (for most of us anyway) according to this report the U.K and the U.S. are the best prepared countries in the world for handling an epidemic
https://www.statista.com/chart/20629/ability-to-respond-to-an-epidemic-or-pandemic/
So we got that goin’ for us.
Comment from DurnedYankee
Time: January 30, 2020, 4:28 pm
Right now I’m not entirely convinced it’s not a combination panderdemic/panicdemic.
In 2017 we lost @80,000 people in the US alone to regular old flu.
There’s a bit of a problem when media rates itself not on the quality of it’s product, but on the number of people consuming it, and ‘panic’ makes for high consumption.
Conversely I suppose, we’re at least taking it seriously. Way more seriously than we did the unquestionably deadly Ebola virus a few years back.
Comment from dissent555
Time: January 30, 2020, 4:34 pm
Thanks for posting this sweas. I can’t seem to keep up with interesting stuff showing up on the interwebs.
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