TSoDS #4 IRIS Mission Begins to Open NASA'a Eyes.

[Blue State Bandit]

Keeping with this short tradition, I offer, from the horses mouth, good news. NASA is starting to sound as crazy as I have been accused of being. Now I hold the popcorn.

I specifically like how the writer rudimentarily describes a particle accelerator; as opposed the thermo-nuclear reaction of standard heliophysical theory, collimating "rapidly heated" gas (i.e. plasma) to "very high velocities".

“We are seeing rich and unprecedented images of violent events in which gases are accelerated to very high velocities while being rapidly heated to hundreds of thousands of degrees,” said Bart De Pontieu, the IRIS science lead at Lockheed Martin. “These types of observations present significant challenges to current theoretical models.”

The shear distain I was treated with was a bit stingy, but my mission here is not to stir mistrust, or promote accusations of dishonesty... well, maybe a lil' intellectually, but controversy is not the burden of a weak argument, that would be contrivancey.

And what's a good argument without the eventual acceptance of agreed upon facts. The previous quote was admittedly less proof... and more gratuitous. So, here is our money shot.

In both cases, observations are more complex than what existing theoretical models predicted.

"We see discrepancies between these observations and the models and that is great news for advancing knowledge," said Mats Carlsson, an astrophysicist at the University of Oslo in Norway. "By seeing something we don't understand we have a chance of learning something new."

Spoken like a true scientist.

[Locut0s]

1. The what what in the what now?