staring at the sun
2003-10-24 : 2:11 p.m.

As I write this, a mass of seething plasma and magnetic fields ejected from the Sun�s corona is nearing the Earth. It came blasting out of a cluster of sun-spots that has migrated across the face of the sun to face the earth. As it passes, it will interfere with satellites and power grids. And hopefully cell-phones.

For absolutely amazing pictures of current activity on the Sun (and there�s lots of it right now), check out NASA�s SOHO site.

It�s soothing, somehow, to think that while we go about our complicated day-to-day lives and jobs, trying to keep everything in balance, stay sane, have some friends, and do a little good, that someone is watching the Sun. The Sun makes up 99.8% of the mass of the entire solar system. It�s on fire. It�s very, very feisty.

It could kill us all. So, rock on, NASA! Keep watching the Sun!

Consumption Junction

1.5 pots of coffee
10 cigarettes
15 mg. Lexapro (escitalipram oxalate)
1 Target brand multivitamin
1 bean & chorizo taco
1 slice of Melvin�s bitchin� cinnamon swirl cake
2 bottles of water

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