Not a solar flare but a coronal mass ejection. And while the subsequent G5 geomagnetic storm can do damage to various technological systems, it shouldn't be anything too bad.
What about it? It's a big solar flare, but my understanding is that it's still not big enough to do any real damage.
no real damage. this time.
I just looked it up on Wikipedia.
The extreme ultraviolet and x-ray radiation from solar flares is absorbed by the daylight side of Earth's upper atmosphere, in particular the ionosphere, and does not reach the surface.
What else should I know?
You should know that this wasn't a solar flare, but a coronal mass ejection. Look that up instead. No, it's nothing too bad either. The one in 1859 was a big one and some people got electrocuted at telegraph stations, but this ain't like that.
Electrocuted? Or shocked?
Electrocuted as in they received injuries from an electric shock.
I'm generally a linguistic descriptivist, but in the case of "electrocuted", I do think the distinction is worth having.
I think there's a distinction between "electrocuted" and "electrocuted to death". Same as with "stabbed" vs. "stabbed to death" or any other such verb that can, but may not necessarily result in death.
[Edit- I'm blind, the definition I give below does include injury. However, I stand by the fact the word has changed over time, and there is at least some value in following the "old" definition.]
Per Merriam-Webster:
1: to kill or severely injure by electric shock
2: to execute (a criminal) by electricity
Now, granted, because the word is used often enough to mean "shocked", there is a "descriptivist" argument to be made that we should accept the new definition (like "literally" meaning "not literally").
While I'm generally in favour of this approach, I think the distinction here being literally life-and-death (especially when used in a workplace context) warrants some push-back against this new definition.
That said, English doesn't have language police, so you're more than free to disagree with my take, haha.
I'm a big fan of words being used wrong so often that they change meaning. Glad my education was largely useless.
Tbf, education isn't a thing that ever ends, just gotta learn the new definitions is all.
The definition does include mere injury. Though it does add the qualifier "severely" so now I need to know how that dictionary defines "severe."
Also: The Internet has proven for years that the Language Police exist for all languages. Though they're more like gestapo. Hence the moniker "Grammar Nazi." ๐
Oh shoot, you're totally right! I'll admit I skimmed - thank you for calling me out on that.
I'll still stand by the fact the definition has changed over time, but I can't really argue much of anything after such a big fuckup lmao.
I just find it interesting because I saw a video on this exact definition the other day, being pedantic about electrocution specifically meaning death. It must have been like the definition for "literally" where because of its usage, now includes the definition of "figuratively."
This is why we base scientific words on Latin - dead language doesn't change.
Electrocution = death
Google and the Oxford dictionary disagree.
And Cambridge says it means to die from it.
I wonder if the origin of the word was a portmanteau of electricity and execute.
Execute to death, of course
Could be, but there's other words with that same ending
This is what I get for skipping Latin...
Iirc it's only electrocution if you die
Google and the Oxford dictionary disagree.
Google and the Oxford dictionary disagree
You mean the opinion of Google is different from that of the Oxford dictionary?
... you mean the skies are looking Fantastic tonight?
mhmm tasty evolution juice
The best way to describe it!
it's good that you properly capitalized your name
I live in Germany, nothing happened. So this is barely news.
It was visible in the uk as well, it was best seen through a camera, almost impossible to see without one
Ah, right, didnt know, thanks! Only heard about it afterwards
I don't know and I wanna. What's so bad about it?
It's the Internet, so I assume buttholes.
Don't look directly at the solar flair
If the solar flare approaches you, do not engage with it
Lay down and pretend you are dead. This way the solar flare will most likely lose intrest and leave.
It's only 1 though. We need to talk with the sun about its flair.
It claimed it wanted to express itself, but the Crab Pulsar expresses itself every 0.8 seconds.
And life goes on...
This only makes me want to do it more
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