It’s #SunDay! Here’s your space weather report for the week of Sept. 11 - Sept. 17:
• 0 M-class flares
• 0 C-class flares (only counted if associated with coronal mass ejections)
• 17 coronal mass ejections
• 0 geomagnetic storms
This video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the week’s activity.
A quiet week on the Sun as a cluster of active regions move across the Sun’s disk and around the limb. As of Friday, Sept. 18, there are no active regions on the Earth-facing side of the Sun.
The dark “strips” across the Sun that emerge towards the end of the video are coronal holes. These cooler bands of solar material on the Sun (which make them appear darker) are where the Sun’s magnetic field lines open up to space, allowing high-speed solar wind to escape.
More about solar activity and space weather: https://t.co/GRxOaTcMdD
⚡️DID YOU KNOW: Bitcoin's source code is buried in the Arctic World Archive, a vault designed to survive for 1,000 years.
In 2020, GitHub archived Bitcoin's entire codebase onto 186 reels of archival film and deposited them in a decommissioned coal mine beneath the permafrost in Svalbard, Norway.
The archive holds 21 terabytes of open-source code including Bitcoin, Linux and Python.
US president Trump told Fox news that he is considering three options for Iran:
• Wiping Iran out.
• Allowing its economy to collapse. • Reaching a deal.
Trump said: 'My question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up? They better behave.'
Meanwhile, Iran's central military command has warned that the US has received approval from some regional countries to launch another attack on Iran.
If the US launches another attack, potential targets could include:
• Iranian officials and senior military commanders
• Power plants, energy infrastructure, bridges and desalination facilities.
• Pickaxe Mountain, which is located near the Natanz nuclear complex and is believed to contain deeply buried facilities.
• Kharg Island, Iran's main oil export terminal, which handles 90% of the country's crude exports.
No other way, Finally 🇸🇦Saudi agrees to a longstanding 🇺🇸US demand to ditch the Chinese-led petrodollar alternative…
🇺🇸US: Saudi listen Carefully…. we can help you against the Houthis- but on one condition.
🇸🇦Saudi: On what condition? What do we need to do?
🇺🇸US: Ditch the Chinese-led digital currency and blockchain payment system that reduces reliance on the US dollar.
🇸🇦Saudi: China is also our ally. We can’t do that.
🇺🇸US: You must. China can’t intercept those missiles for you. Only we can. That is the cost of help. Publicly leave their alternative mechanism.
(Satire Warning: Opinionated, Fictional quotes)
Context: Saudi Arabia exits China-backed mBridge, US is preparing a large-scale military operation against Yemen's Houthis..
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump told Fox News that he is going to blow up the entire Iranian nation soon, if they don’t behave
“I'm in a deciding mode and very big things are going to be happening in the not-so-distant future.
The current choices on the table: wiping Iran out, letting them rot economically, or making a deal.
My question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up? They better behave.”