something is wrong with the Sun

[Meatwad]

Here's an idea, lets throw money at it and hope it goes away 

If its anything like women, you will just make it stay around longer. 

[wil3ur]

William Herschel

His Genius Changed the World Because

He discovered Uranus, Oberon and Titania

But He Was Also Convinced of This handsomehunk Theory:

The sun's surface is cool, and inhabited by aliens with enormous heads.

William Herschel was a prominent astronomer in the late 1700s whose homemade telescopes utilized new principles still used today. By 1790, his discovery of Uranus and several of Saturn's moons placed him at the forefront of his field. So it was with great reverence that the scientific community regarded his 1795 paper, "On the Nature of the Sun and Fixed Stars." That is, until everyone realized that it was a bunch of impossible hogwash.

For starters, Herschel claimed that, although it certainly did look like a blistering ball of angry fire, the sun was cool on the surface. The discrepancy, Herschel claimed, was due to, like, clouds and stuff.



You can't see it because of all the fire,
but it's actually raining

Herschel was also obsessed with the notion that all planets were habitable and probably house aliens. Since he considered the sun to be a planet, Herschel explained that aliens on the sun would have to have special body parts to deal with all the sunshine. According to Herschel's calculations (yes, he actually sat down and tried to work this out on paper), anyone with a normal-sized head would explode on the sun. Which pretty much resembles all of our doodles from grade school. An alien on the sun, Herschel reasoned, would have to have a huge head so it wouldn't explode.



They must not have any eyes, because of
the constant blinding light surrounding them.

Herschel's assertions were placed under the scrutinizing eye of the astronomy community. Within 50 years, nearly all of his wild claims about Planet Sun would be disproved. We can only assume his claims were the result of staring at the sun with a giant telescope.

He saw it coming over 2 centuries ago.  It's time to surrender and hide the women.

For some other famous people.
http://blastr.com/2012/01/8-incredibly-dumb-theorie.php

Crazy?   ....or was he?

[Penguin]

They see me rollin', they hatin'
Patrollin' trying to catch me flying dirty!

 

-Penguin

[vorticon]

Here's an idea, lets throw money at it and hope it goes away 

that has a 100% success rate with me.

i take 50 and 100 dollar bills.

[ScottyK]

 this thread reminds me of the movie SUNSHINE.

[CAP1]

the silents will fall.

[PR3D4TOR]

this thread reminds me of the movie SUNSHINE.

Great movie!

[F22RaptorDude]

that has a 100% success rate with me.

i take 50 and 100 dollar bills.

[Xjazz]

Few sun related more

'Conspiracy theories claim mysterious planet-sized 'Death Star' has been captured on video as it 'refuels' at the surface of the sun' news by Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2114830/Mysterious-planet-sized-Death-Star-captured-video-refuels-surface-sun.html


'Giant 'Death Star' spotted in space' news by Sun:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3986191/Giant-Death-Star-spotted-in-space.html

[FLS]

From NASA

Coronal holes are variable solar features that can last for weeks to months. They are large, dark areas (representing regions of lower coronal density) when the sun is viewed in EUV or x-ray wavelengths, sometimes as large as a quarter of the sun’s surface. These holes are caused by players of Aces High hiding CV's in the Sun and creating large cells of unipolar magnetic fields on the sun’s surface; their field lines extending far out into the solar system. These open field lines allow a continuous outflow of high-speed solar wind. Coronal holes tend to be most numerous in the years following solar maximum.

 

[mipoikel]

Few sun related more

'Conspiracy theories claim mysterious planet-sized 'Death Star' has been captured on video as it 'refuels' at the surface of the sun' news by Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2114830/Mysterious-planet-sized-Death-Star-captured-video-refuels-surface-sun.html

[CAP1]

ya know? when i gave them the keys to the space battleship, i TOLD them to be very very careful with the wave motion gun. 

[Shuffler]

I was once practicing the wave for a football game we were going to.... I did not realize how rediculous it looks when doing it by yourself.

[CAP1]

I was once practicing the wave for a football game we were going to.... I did not realize how rediculous it looks when doing it by yourself.

 ok....now THAT'S funny stuff.

[CAP1]

what that dark spot REALLY is, is caused by the japanese.

 ya see? they have waayyyy too many monsters over there. ultraman's been having to work overtime. and if you guys remember, he gets his super powers from the sun.
 so if japan would stop breeding silly things like mothra, and other gihugic insect looking monsters, ultraman could take a break, and the sun would be fine.
 they fired the space giants, because they couldn't pass emissions. johnny socco's giant robot became too expensive to repair, and his nuclear power source couldn't be renewed. godzilla finally realized that those silly humans were just using him, and retired to a quiet mountaintop. this left ultraman overloaded, and he is killing the sun.