Topic: Sun Erupts: Epic Blast Seen by NASA Solar Observatory

[sam]

NASA's new Solar Dynamics Observatory may be getting all the press this week for its retina-searing first pictures of the sun. But two old sun-observing warhorses recently showed they're not quite ready for pasture yet.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/100423-sun-eruption-nasa-space-science-solar-observatory/

[Simon]

Coronal mass ejections can send bursts of charged particles, called solar wind, streaming toward Earth, where they can overload our planet's magnetic shield, knocking out satellite communications and power grids.

Isn't this what that stupid Paradox programme was based on last year?

[sam]

I quite enjoyed that.. and yes to a point - well for the first episode it appeared that is what they thought was going on anyway. All bad science. Annoys me.

[Simon]

Oh, I gave up after the third episode.  Was that not what it was all about, then?`

[sam]

I don't think so. They didn't get to the point in the end... new series later in the year....

[Simon]

I'll pass on that.

[Rik]

A new Act, or something more personal?

[Simon]

[Rik]