NASA released a video of a hole in the sun so massive it’s the equivalent of 50 planet earths across, and takes up about a quarter of the sun’s surface. It’s this big black mass, and it makes your basic sun spot look like a walk in the park. You can see the video here. This hole is causing magnetic field lines to whip out into the solar wind instead of back to the sun’s surface.
But here’s what I find most horrifying about this news: Apparently these holes are quite common. They come, they go.
Gloriosky. How have I managed to live on this planet for 48 years without knowing this? That’s like, I don’t know, living on Nantucket and not knowing about whales. Living in Orlando and not knowing about Mickey Mouse.
What else am I overlooking?
And how is this change in solar weather impacting us? I have no idea, but I fully intend to blame it for the foul mood I’ve been in for the past few days. Yeah. It’s all the sun’s fault. That’s it.
The View from a Drawbridge 
I didn’t do it…
Well, you HAVE been mysteriously absent of late…
I explained all that.
It sounded a little sketchy to me.
Okay, fine. I need some hot plasma for an experiment.
Now THAT fits your personality.
I am going to solve this global warming thing… one way or the other…
Comforting to know somebody’s trying something, anyway.
If we can’t cool the Earth down, we will just cool down the sun.
Brilliant. 🙂
Seems so obvious now.
You’ll be famous.
Or dead.
Well, yeah, but we’d all be dead with you, so no one could criticize.
It is a win/win situation.
Go for it. 🙂
I am warming up the spaceship.
Although, come to think of it, didn’t you sell your flux capacitor on E-bay?
Just to get the new hyper-inline model.
Ahhh. That should make all the difference.
Just sayin’.
sigh