Silliam » Science http://www.silliam.com Just a few words... Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:03:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Solar Tsunami http://www.silliam.com/interesting/solar-tsunami http://www.silliam.com/interesting/solar-tsunami#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:08:52 +0000 silliam http://www.silliam.com/?p=35 So I just read/watched the link on the recent solar tsunami and that is some really crazy stuff.  According to my envelope calculation, the article says that the tsunami covered 1000000km in half an hour.

I am having ridiculous trouble converting km/hr to ft/sec.  According to google calculator, it would be 1822688.83ft/sec.  That sounds much more reasonable.  My original number of 23622047244000ft/sec was a bit off. (Thanks Thomas) ;)

That tsunami was traveling pretty darn fast.  So, I believe that would be pronounced 1 million 822 thousand 688.83 feet per second.  Compared to the fastest tsunami on earth that moves about 911ft/sec I would say that things are a bit faster on the sun.

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