Comments on: A fiery angel erupts from the Sun

By: reidh

reidh — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:57:36 +0000

Considering that the word “Angel” comes from the greek from the persian meaning messenger, and as a messenger of Fire I would say the Sun is doing a great job. BTW, I think all of these super flares are contributing more to the overall warming of the world climate than all of the burnt oil in China. The problem is PROOVING it.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:08:49 +0000

When does ionized gas become a plasma?

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By: UmTutSut

UmTutSut — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:17:06 +0000

I can see the face of Amy Winehouse in the surface whorls….

By: Ok2panic

Ok2panic — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:06:32 +0000

Im thinking it looks more like a Phoenix than an angel. And since I’m not a solar scientist, what are the arch looking loops next to the Phoenix?

By: Naomi

Naomi — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:04:31 +0000

DrFlimmer @ 27,

‘Sceptic’ is actually the correct Commonwealth spelling. Now, I personally actually think ‘skeptic’ looks better, so it’s one of the few times I willingly use American spelling over Commonwealth, but it’s not incorrect.

By: JOE

JOE — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:44:21 +0000

THATS NO ANGEL. THATS THE SUNS ALL SPARK. ITS INCREDIBLE HOW PEOPLE WANT TO SEE THINGS THAT DO NOT EXSIST

By: critter42

critter42 — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:53:55 +0000

Hahaha! I don’t know if it is keying of the video title, but I had to laugh when the video ran with a Lady Gaga ad on it. LOL

By: Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:41:55 +0000

A stream of fire longer then our planet is wide.

Terrifyingly Beautiful.

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:03:53 +0000

DailyKos article about the unexpected change in solar behavior
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/28/999981/-eSci:-The-Sun-is-Acting-Strangely

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:31:46 +0000

but nobody has mentioned the DailyKos article where I first saw this video, which talks about the unexpected change in solar behavior
?

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:32:10 +0000

Some days I think it’s enough to just say, “oooo pretty.”

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:18:43 +0000

QALSO GRAVITY IS JUST A THEORY HA! WHEN WE ALL FALL UP TO HEAVEN ON MAY^W OCTOBER 21 SCIENCE WILL GO OH NO WE SHOULD HAVE LISSEND!!!1111ONE ONE ONE

Sorry, couldn’t resist.

By: Themiscyra

Themiscyra — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:05:38 +0000

Well, HAD that prominence been an archangel blowing a trumpet, the sound hardly would have carried, would it? In space, no one can hear you prove the nonexistence of God by providing incontrovertible proof of His existence (q.v. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).

By: uudale

uudale — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:01:40 +0000

Hmmm…

It sort of looks like a pterodactyl to me.

By: DrFlimmer

DrFlimmer — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:58:33 +0000

Since we are already mentioning global warming: What about this one?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20739-ok-climate-sceptics-heres-the-raw-data-you-wanted.html

Now, go ahead you “sceptics” and perform the analyses yourselves….

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:45:49 +0000

At least it’s a fiery angel and not a weeping angel! Don’t blink!

(Do click my name for the trailer on Youtube if you’d like though.)

Question : Is the term “pareidolia” limited to seeing faces in inaminate non-facial things or does it apply to humanoid (angeloid?) looking patterns like this too?

By: Daniel J. Andrews

Daniel J. Andrews — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:19:20 +0000

Ditto what Mike says re: Phil being a gentleman (although I do suspect prayer’s a Poe).

John, Messier has some good links. Skeptical Science, which he listed, is an excellent place to find science-based evidence to pretty much all denier claims out there. I’d also recommend…

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/05/start-here/

which is run by working climate scientists in different disciplines. They have put together a START HERE tab from their home page which is designed for people with little to no knowledge of the basics of climate. Once you gain more knowledge, you might enjoy reading some of their regular posts. I’d suggest you not get your science from news groups, think tanks or political sites…there is a long history of distortion and fabrication there starting from the 50s and 60s. Go to reliable scientific institutions when you can.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 02:26:49 +0000

Phil,
Your reply to prayer765 (#10), proves that once more, you are a gentleman.

I thank you for the ever-gorgeous images and videos you post. I sometimes don’t see in them the same things you do (time-lapse videos get a little redundant over time, but that’s just me), but I love that you’re able to appreciate the subliminal beauty of the subluminal!

By: Meng Bomin

Meng Bomin — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:45:15 +0000

It appears that the angel is summoned from the flames, emerging and spreading its wings before its soul is captured from its chest, at which point its ethereal corpse withers back into the fiery orb from whence it came while its soul remains hovering in an arc above the surface. We may have just witnessed the punishment meted out by the divine for disobedience.

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:15:30 +0000

Oh & just three more for you :

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/tag/climate-change/

and scroll down for the BA’s posts on Climate Change here.

See :

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=potholer54+climate+change&aq=2&oq=Potholer54

http://greenfyre.wordpress.com/climate-denial-crock-of-the-week/#sense

Please watch your way through all of those youtube clips inthose two series. Its worth doing and they’re very informative and entertaining and well worth it.

Oh & John Moore, I used to be a climate chage contrarian myself once a few years ago. Arguing about it on this blog is one of the reasons I changed my mind. So please do stick around and argue your case if you want to where it’s appropriate – just keep it in the right threads and please, after you’ve seen & considered the material provided here for you.

By: Naomi

Naomi — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:09:32 +0000

“Of course, once the angel dissolves it forms more of an arc… so I guess this makes it an archangel.”

No trumpets, but I did hear a rimshot!

I’m calling parody on #10.

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:56:19 +0000

@2. John Moore – Here you go, please see :

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/06/the_global_warming_crisis.php

http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php

& from this very blog :

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/10/26/climate-change-the-evidence/

these are just a few places for you to start. Read what is said there, follow some of tehlinks within those and elsewhere and reflect on what information is provided there and what it means for a while please.

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:55:33 +0000

@ ^ Badger3k : This angel would have to be Lucifer right? Made of fire at the depths of our Solar systems largest gravity well pit, and “fallen” back into it!

Still a magnificent sight.

@2. John Moore : Some advice for you please wait for a more appropriate thread that’s actually about the Anthropogenic Global Warming Effect instead of posting off topic stuff like that. Phil Plait does post one every now and then y’know.

Also please do some further research on the whole issue of Human Caused Global Overheating.

By: Badger3k

Badger3k — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:32:56 +0000

I have to join the rest in saying “Don’t see it.” Maybe stop the video at the point where it supposedly looks like a winged creature.

As for prayer – what does it say if you have a “winged angel” that is (a) made of “fire” and (b) dissolves into a “lake of fire”, so to speak? Is this evidence that Voldemort, er, Satan, is real, and living in the sun?