Another cloud free day in Scotland let me catch almost 9 hours of this huge and lively prom. Taken with my home made 90mm modded Coronado PST and DMK21 camera. Software: CdC, Eqmod, DSSR, AutoStakkert!, Wavesharp, DVS, Shotcut and Gimp.
David Wilson on April 8, 2025 @ Inverness, Scotland
https://spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=221951
It could be sun birds.
God damned KDE devs at it again /s
What does this mean for ham radio?
The “earth to scale” really boggles my mind 🫨
Needs banana
There is banana on the Earth
It’s there, you just gotta zoom in a bit.
it really puts things in perspective…
Thank you, I didn’t even see that.
For comparison the distance from the plasma cloud to the sun’s surface is about how far communication satellites in geostationary orbit are above Earth.
I know all kinds of nerdy things.
Yum!
fuckin love the fediverse
All that energy and here we are burning oil like cavemen in the dark.
Well I can’t ram the sun up the ass of my Silverado. Although if I outlive that thing, I’m replacing it with a horse or something. New vehicles freak me out man.
Come on tell tech daddy where you go on weekdays & weekends for how long at what speed with how many passengers!
You know any efficient way to harness that energy?
Yeah just grab a handful.
Solar panels?
Haven’t seen a solar panel that can take a cloud of plasma many times the size of earth.
The most efficient, a NASA solar panel that cost tens of thousands of dollars and uses fucking gold foil, is only 30% efficient. So try again.
Who said you need to catch all of it in a single panel??
The reason nasa goes overboard (though, not really), is because it’s worth it for space stuff. On the surface we have an abundance of space
Modern residential solar panels are around 22-24% efficient.
And why are you worried about the rest of that energy? You worried it’s gonna be lost?
Doesn’t take a genius: Dyson Sphere
Doesn’t take a genius
Dyson Sphere
I assume that’s sarcasm 😂
Roughly you need at least 906.000 km² of 1x1m solar panelling.
That’s actually not the worst. It seems doable to produce that much square area of solar panels, even for a civilization like us. We need about 500 000 square kilometers of solar panels on the Earth’s surface to power our global electrical needs. This is within the realm of possibility
The more tricky part is to actually position it around the sun, that part is what makes it impossible for our current tech level and space infrastructure
Yeah the possibilities of a solar field on the moon is much more sensible.
I know a guy.
It never loses suction
tng dyson sphere, except the star end up killing or causing the civilization to abandon the sphere.
Corn has been doing that. We only need to wait for the oil lobby to die and then science will probably figure things out…
Caveman didn’t burn oil 🤓
checkmate communists
They might have soaked fabric or some other material in animal fat (which is just oil that’s solid at room temperature), wrapped it around the end of a stick, and lit it on fire. 🤓🤓
And, if they did, it probably wouldn’t be dark anymore.
Look at this and tell me life couldn’t evolve on the Sun, that is a stable structure with reputation patterns, this alone is enough to make Conway’s game of Life
Life as we know it could not “evolve” on the sun. And technically life has to be present first before it can evolve. Evolution isn’t what created life. It’s just how the living change over time.
A gaseous cloud in space the size of 7 suns may have the ability to flow right past us, but also, think.
Obviously plasma beings would be nothing like us at least physically (theoretically it could have similar systems like nervous systems)
And as for life having to exist first, ehh, terms get vague at that point, are the chemicals alive? No, but when they happen to be in a certain state they are, I prefer to think of it like Rocks evolve into a planet, not the same thing as biological evolution but it’s the same word and since the chemicals are the predecessor to life then they did evolve from them in that manner just no genetics involved
Except you don’t just get to conflate your personal definition of evolution with the scientific one. If you want to believe rocks “evolve” into a planet, that’s fine. But if you start bringing that up without clarifying your definition of evolution and how it factually differs from the scientific one, people will think you’re crazy.
Except chemicals do literally evolve into life which evolve into DNA, it is a fuzzy point because DNA didn’t exist yet, but it is still natural selection and random chance that leads to the first life form, I am deliberately conflating biological evolution with the more main stream definition because at that point in time biology physics and chemistry were all physically conflated.
This is entirely incorrect. Abiogenesis is the mechanism that converts “chemicals” to life. The only thing you are deliberately doing is stating factually incorrect concepts about an intensely deep and developed area of study. The “more mainstream definition” is just wrong.
I’m pretty sure somewhere a being exists that is basically just self modifying plasma fields living inside a nova remnant
Sounds like the kind of thing a self-modifying plasma field living inside a nova remnant would say, on the internets.
No indeed, fellow carbon-having being! I am truly an human, that does many humanish things like laughing and farting, sometimes both at once! akakakakak!
It is silly to think that anything as beautiful and majestic as a self-modifying EM field could exist, I mean such a being would be perfection right? Basically a glowing radiant god yes? Oh my I truly wish I was a free-flying energyform of psychically controlled vortexes of pure creation, instead of this little crunchy salt water sack that we humans are always being.
No, I truly love this cold little rocky world where matter can exist in other simpler forms than vibrating and glorious plasma.
They were born in the early days of all things, when even space burned with white hot fire
They persisted, EM fields feeding their core the kaleidoscope soup of nameless plasma and shattered atom hearts and over strange aeons began to learn to shape the fields that fed and flew them
In time as the particle sea began to cool, they found refuge in brief stars larger than solar systems, cavorting and chasing in the balmy updrafts so hot that even helium burns
Now in this cold distant future, where stars are but unreachable cinders, they scrimp and conserve the relatively little time our sun has left to them, some two billion short years hence.
Pray for our star children, we cannot grasp even a fraction of the cosmic empire they have lost
we cannot grasp even a fraction of the cosmic empire they have lost
I just finished the last book in The Expanse. This really made me think of the gate builders
E: I should have also said, loved your post!
Thank you, it’s been a really low week and knowing you liked my post has been healing for me these two days.
Not enough people engage on lemmy yet and I wanted to be sure you knew that your comment meant a lot to me. I love to write but rarely get any feedback on it.
:-)
We know it’s life, I can see the souls sucking from the clouds into the inner sun.
I need details on how you homemade some stuff.
Thanks. That looks like some serious work, although very detailed.
i d like one a little slower , here i just blink and one hour passes… mesmerising !
It’s crazy this guy is just doing this on his own. Looks like something from NASA to me.
Looks like the video is about 20 minutes of real time per 1 second of video. There are dops of plasma that fall further than the diameter of Earth in less than one in video second… which means the plasma is falling the more than the diameter of Earth in less than 20 minutes. That’s close to 100,000 mph or 160,000 kph. Dang
About 0.01% of the speed of light. I got a Lorentz factor of 1.00000001 so not quite fast enough for relativistic stuff.
The description states it was ~9h of video
Description says the poster caught 9h of video, but based on the clock watermark in the top left, what is shown is about 7.5h of video (maybe cut for the interesting bits/highest quality) from 0830ish to 1600ish) at a rate of roughly 20 minutes of real time per 1 second video time, as the original commenter pointed out
It’s like raiiiiiiiaaaaaiiiiiiiin…
Cool shot!
I’ll give you $10 if you lick it.
I licked it, where’s my money?
Prove it!
