https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54493401-project-hail-ma...
I had to read the small passage through a couple of times to make sure I had the right context.
Also read, and loved, and had emotional reactions to Project Hail Mary. Highly recommend.
Read the book a while ago, didn't realize it was being made into a movie until recently, maybe others are unaware too. I'm eagerly optimistic :)
Also I believe there's a movie in the works for Project Hail Mary. Just finished the book and am hoping the film will be as good.
The story is very good, but it was also interesting to read the Chinese point of view.
But yes, the difference is not huge.
A polar vortex formed in the north. video:
https://twitter.com/TamithaSkov/status/1621276153075109888?s...
How has this anything to do with the JWST? That telescope would be ruined instantly if it were pointed at the Sun.
Edit: Sorry; tried to edit this before the post went live but the site crashed for me for several minutes. I meant to specify that we were blaming their language model. There's certainly plenty of an argument to be made that Google is partly responsible for the current state of SEO and all that garbage going in.
The find by SDO extends a series of interesting space observations started by JWST.
But that would be a somewhat weird point to make, so I would agree, they probably thought the observation was by JWST.
..article was written by Bard??
Presumably we've only been observing the sun for a few hundred years at most, and maybe less than a hundred and fifty with any level of precise accuracy and scientific rigour. That's maybe 30 cycles in total, and 12 or 13 where we'd really be able to tell what's happening. If you bring probes or telescopes that can look at the sun into the mix we've observed maybe 4 or 5 cycles.
The notion that something is extraordinary because we haven't seen it before is ridiculous. The sun probably does thousands of things we haven't observed yet. That doesn't make it weird or strange. That just means we've only been a scientifically literate species for an incredibly short time.
However, sharing the joy of "we haven't seen this before, we don't know what it means," and speaking of incorrect and frankly even silly possible interpretations is how we collectively, eventually, understand these things. The process is chaotic and often ugly but works well enough that humans think they're more in control of this planet than the ants are.
Be careful that the justified ire against the authoritative tone of some dipshit reporter doesn't blind you to the wonder of new discovery.
I'm anticipating the "aliens are drinking the sun like a milkshake," theorists to have a field day with this one. I'll read their discussions for amusement and the possibility they might turn up details or implications no one else does, cuz no one else looks at the data the way they do.
If that's the case, we should be studying the straw. If they have a straw that reaches all the way to our star, then they have all the star. So just think about the tech we could learn by just studying that straw
Shout out to: https://spaceweather.com/
"Something strange is happening on the sun, and we've seen it before"
"Something quite normal is happening on the sun, even though we've never seen it before (because we've existed for approx .0021% of the sun's life"
"Something is happening on the sun, and we'll puff up the importance of this measurement anomaly better than any other ad platform"
--- "Sun produces never seen before polar vortex"
And when I ask ChatGPT to write a matter of fact headline for the article it comes up with this:
--- "Sun's North Pole Experiences Unusual Phenomenon as Part of Surface Breaks Off and Forms a Giant Polar Vortex"
When I ask it to make it more sensational we get closer to what we are used to from click hungry media these days
--- "Mystery Unfolds as Sun's North Pole Forms a Giant Polar Vortex, Scientists Baffled by Unprecedented Event"
Here is one of the more out there theories I found.
https://arxiv.org/ftp/astro-ph/papers/0410/0410569.pdf
The fractional percent crowd bases their theory on the observed spectrum of the sun. the large iron core side bases their theory on the observed distribution of iron in the inner solar system.
It is interesting because too much iron and there would be no fusion, but think of the iron cores in the planets, the sun coalesced from the same dust, there has to be a large amount in there.
It may be time to begin flying west
