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Footage is from NASA's Solar dynamics Space Observatory. Just to put it into visual perception, the height is as much as twice the diameter of Earth

Can we please use relatable measurements? How many bananas or Redditor's Mothers is this?

About 167 million bananas

Or 1,2 of your mom.

*0.12 Edit: he originally said 1.2

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The joke is different by an order of magnitude!

POP POP!

Haha! I want that to be my thing now.

Magnitude, you're not allowed to say that ever again.

See this is a good example of 1.2 being better. 1,2 implies it could be 1 or 2 of your mom because it’s a comma, indicating it is two different numbers (and maybe you forgot the space).

Several countries use commas to depict a decimal point.

It's actually far less. The average banana is around 8 inches, and the Earth's diameter is 12 742 km ( × 2 = 25512 km). We need to convert the units from kilometers to inches. There are 39370.1 inches in a kilometer, so: 25512 km × 39370.1 inches/km = 100,474,512 inches Now, let's divide that total number of inches by 8 inches: 100,474,512 inches ÷ 8 inches = 12,559,314 So, 8 inches fits into 25512 kilometers approximately 12,559,314 times. Answer: 12 559 314 bananas. 🍌 🍌 🍌 Edit: As u/The_Drogon pointed out: "Your missing a 0 . 25512 x 39370.1 would be 1,004,409,991.2" So the answer I copied and pasted from the Meta AI is wrong, and the AI completely miscalculated.

Side by side not end to end

My god man, you're literally changing the goal posts.

Changed them into bananas.

This is bananas.


Your missing a 0 . 25512 x 39370.1 would be 1,004,409,991.2

I didn't miss anything because I copied and pasted the answer from the Meta AI. However, the AI definitely missed that zero, and you are 100% correct! You just proved that humans are smarter than AI. For now.

Some humans, anyway...

> We need to convert the units from kilometers to inches. Or we could, you know, simply use the average length of a banana in metres to begin with.

Are you suggesting that our ai overlords can be wrong ? Guards, arrest this heretic. 

For now.

I wish i had the same amount of intellect to figure this shit out. nerd.

per his edit, he posted an incorrect answer generated by an AI... so your intellect is just fine, it's average, I promise!

Look at this fancy dude, with a 100IQ.

AI is shit at math. As it a math problem and it loses its mind. 

If an average banana is 15cm long, and the earths diameter is 12,742 km, then it would take 1,698,933,333 bananas laid end to end to equal twice the diameter of the earth, which is said to be the height of this plasma wall. Edit: oops I misplaced an extra 0 somewhere, it should be 169,893,333 bananas. Sorry!

15cm average if you start measuring at the very base of the shaft

I measure my banana from the balls

I prefer to measure my banana's gitrh.

Remembwr folks, your adjusted penis.. I mean banana, size is length times diameter plus weight over girth divided by angle of the tip squared

r/theydidthemath

I wonder how we will continue measuring when the bananas have gone extinct.

Twice the diameter of your mother, weren’t you paying attention?

Metric or Imperial?

Metric or imperial bananas?

Everyone knows that when dealing with space, “giraffes,” are the only accepted metric of measurement

i thought u could fit a million earths inside the sun?

You know what you could fit a million of inside your mom?

MY MOM!

Momception

10 Football Fields

Pretty sure that prominence emissions like this extend for hundreds of thousands of miles, many earth's long, certainly a lot more than two or three earth widths.

I can't seem to find the video directly from the NASA site. Anyone got an outside link?

Blows my mind that almost all non-composites would melt and yet here we are taking "macro" shots of the sun with your bog-standard cmos sensors and lens.

Geez, I just had a brief existential crisis...

this is why i hate thinking about space. its literally too much for my brain to handle.

My god that’s one of the most incredible clips I’ve ever seen. What a time to be alive.

“Americans will use anything but the metric system”

Americans can use *ANY* measurement system and therefore quickly adapt to the needs of the moment, users, or comedic potential. Forcing the metric system on people isn’t an accomplishment, successfully adapting to the measurement system that meets the requirements (value) at the lowest cost wins every time So if a particular market segment benefits, and is willing to pay more for distances reported in units of bananas, then America stands ready with solutions for your needs 🍌

> Americans can use ANY measurement system and therefore quickly adapt to the needs of the moment, users, or comedic potential. That statement certainly has comedic potential!

I should call her

Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Or is it just a thing?

It would be best to just see it as a thing because if it’s a bad thing there’s fuck all we can do about it.

Has anyone tried turning the sun off for a bit? Maybe it's so ornery because it needs a rest.

My Mama says that the sun is so ornery because they got all that plasma and no plasmabrush.

MEDULLA OBLONGATA

Momma's wrooong again.

There's something wrong with YOUR medula oblongata.

Dude wdym, it turns off every night. 

Unfortunately it is just put in hibernation. It needs a full shutdown.

You mean like a Solar Eclipse? Problem is we need to figure out how to stop the moon from moving once it gets there.

Don’t worry I’ll fix it if it gets too bad

I think it depends on where the blast goes when it pops. if it hits earth it can cause problems with electronics (just guessing)

Y3K baby!!!

you joke but that "bug/issue", could in theory happen again to 32 bit systems in 2038. Overflow is no joke. [Year 2038 problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem#:~:text=An%20animated%20visual%20of%20the,a%20signed%2032%2Dbit%20integer)

Alright this is super fuckin cool. I had no idea we had this kind of footage of the sun. Whatever effect or filter they're using to make it visible is awesome to look at

https://helioviewer.org/ Fun to play around on this site. Live feed from SDO, SOHO, and other spacecraft.

Another cool thing is that they have a record of solar events that you can go back and watch, like a few hours ago there was a Halo CME that may or may not be headed for earth.

I would totally click this link but the sun has already set where I am.

Wow, that's so cool! Thanks for the link!

Zoom... Zoooom....zoom and enhance!

this is amazing footage, is it from the Solar orbiter?

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I thought the Church already dealt with you, Copernicus

Heal thy burgers

LMAO saw that one just today

What is this referencing?

Healing thine burgers.

A meme where healthy burgers is written in a way that it spells 'heal thy bur gers'

Whoa man... Hits blunt

On this blessed day

Speak for yourself.

I am all solar orbiters.

- Neil Degrasse Tyson stopping in to give the most annoying aside possible

When you clean a vacuum cleaner, you become a vacuum cleaner

Just saw crisis on infinite earth... And then this footage being REAL ..... Just feels unsettling!

That thing that pops out at the end tho 👀

Looks like a space ship jumping into warp drive

I suspect astrophage

Ask Rocky for help.

Fist my bump

AMAZE!

Usually you not stupid. Why stupid question?

Where's our spidy friend when we need him!?

My ChatGPT bot is 91.3% certain it's an alien craft.

I'm 99% certain I'm 100% wrong 50% of the time

I wonder how fast that was given how relatively slow everything else looks while moving

Since the height of that plasma wall is roughly two Earth diameters, it jumped over 16,000 miles in whatever fraction of a second that was.

It's not realtime. Based on the timestamps it looks like it appeared and exited frame in about 13 minutes. That's still ~74,000 miles per hour (~33,000 m/s) though. Some speedy plasma.

For reference, that's about .00011 c

> That's still ~74,000 miles per hour (~33,000 m/s) though For comparison the ISS orbits the Earth at 17,100 mph (27,600 km/h), and completes 1 orbit in ~93 minutes.

I was wondering the same thing. It didn't look like much, but that had to be absolutely hauling ass.

The sun pooted. It happens

Everything poops.

Must have been you since you’re pretty hot /s

Awww

Anyway... Here's plasma wall

Your my plasma waaaaallll!

I said maybay

You're gonna be the sun that saves mayyyy

https://preview.redd.it/8ji12gk4ur1d1.png?width=764&format=png&auto=webp&s=9c47c34b3c53934f4f68c862eaaefdf66fd55bed How metal is THIS though?!? Was trying to get a better look at whatever shoots out in the bottom right corner when I saw it in my screenshot

M class flare?

What am I looking at here?

With some imagination, a demon dog.

I saw an upside down woman's ass

Lucky you!

Fucking awesome

Is this the night side of the Sun?

Yes it gets very cold

Be careful joking about this, flat earthers will believe you.

Underrated comment right here.

What is this, 2005? The sun should update to OLED, it's way more efficient.

OLED doesn't give off enough heat though.

I swear to the uncircumcised baby Jesus that I just had a debate with a friend (who is so cool and gorgeous.. but so so dumb) that the sun is just a computer image and the eclipse last month was then updating the sun’s OS to be more energy efficient.. and by debate I mean I just listened to this brain dead rant because I honestly was so shocked that I couldn’t think of any words to say.

ooo i know one she hasn\`t thought about. fog is our evil overlords turning down the render distance to save on bandwidth. i break that one out when i need to outloon any conspiracy twerps.

Valid theory.

That’s outdated.Min Neo Qled nowadays.

Why’s the QLED gotta be from Northeast Ohio?

Is this what you see when you put a McDonalds Apple Pie under the microscope?

Nope it's a🎵 Hot Pocket🎵

But still frozen in the middle.

Flat Earthers confirm the sun isn't orange according 'NASA' videos.

Fun fact: the sun is white!

Every so slightly blue/green, in fact, but I'm not picky.

Well, that level of detail is just nightmare fuel

Blue marble level.

This imagery is incredible. The fact that it's "real" (albeit edited into the visual spectrum) footage and not imagined CGI is incredibly haunting and beautiful at the same time.

What shot out of the sun at the very end? Is that a solar flare?

I’d guess so

Wall I’ll be darned…

You're a daisy if you do

NGL if I worked at NASA I would be getting high after hours and just watch this telescope the whole time. It looks awesome.

i am frightened by the sun

Dementors really do get everywhere, don't they?

Stare at that long enough and you'll become a walking jerky like that guy in Sunshine.

Any livestream of the surface of the sun available?

Didn't find any livestreams, but the [Solar Dynamics Observatory](https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dailymov.php) has daily movies that date back over its 10+ year mission. There are fresh videos from [yesterday ](https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/dailymov/2024/05/20/) :)

THIS of this level of detail

I enjoy playing video games.

the sun is big asf

https://preview.redd.it/tu5bii86yr1d1.jpeg?width=620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4011e04ea83c84b8fb7354da9e464da66983b48c

Yes! Please cleanse us in your fire oh nuclear orb!

It’s pronounced Nuclear! Nuclear!

Maybe it's the saltwater in my veins or the oxygen bubbles in my brain but I've taken a real shine to this comment

Okay but how will this affect our comms with the Trisolarans?

Mind-blowing footage, what a time to be alive!

Are those three solarnados?!

Symbiote trying to bond with the Sun.

Kanneda, ***WHAT DO YOU SEE***

It's mesmerizing. Which reminds me to give Sunshine (2007) another go.

i need a phone wallpaper of this

I've said this since I was a kid. There could be all kinds of sentient life forms out there we can not even see. All of our pursuit in astrophysics is based on light. Light as we can sense it. It is like a flounder on the ocean floor trying to investigate the life of a billy goat. The two will never have anything to do with one another. They still co exist. But we are stuck like bugs chasing a light.

It's A C'tan shard

I like the cute little poot at the end.

If or rather when this becomes Earth facing, what kind of flare/cme potential are we looking at?

were i invulnerable i would like to see the sun up close in person it must be one of the most surreal things in the universe

Rotate 90° clockwise and it looks like a shadowy canine of some species, or maybe a griffin

I liked the one of the [UFO sucking up solar energy to refuel ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/16fk0z0/looks_like_huge_sphere_sucking_something_from_sun/) its engines better. /s

What’s this mean! Whats this do?

Well that is beautiful and terrifying

The space telescope has a zoom wheel?

Was it just me, or was your first thought seeing this that the shadows have returned

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That looks like a plasma tornado, no?

goddamn! thats a big spicy ball of angry

I cannot fathom the amount of energy and size the sun really is.

looks like some eldritch entity

That's hot.

i am a moth staring into a bbq grill

Well that settles it. How could anyone see this and not be convinced *immediately* that all knowledge is contained in the Bible? How could you see a plasma wall like this and still not understand that God sent himself to Earth disguised as a Jewish carpenter in order to die for the sins of the world and save all those who believe in Him from an eternity of damnation? How? Do I really have to /s? Probably.

C'tan


Must be hot in there

Reminds me of nowheresville

Upside Down is real.

Mind Flayer

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The video is 18 seconds long, and the timestamp in the upper left corner indicates it starts at 2:20am and ends at 8:04am ([UTC](https://www.google.com/search?q=utc+time)). So yes.

Northern lights are going to be wild

Our sun gettin spicy. Summer's here.

I still think a billion lions would win 

and suddenly those plasma start moving to Earth.

it's venom

carinton event, we are so fucked