In the Sunlight Foundation computer systems, the people are protected by one unconventional, yet endlessly impressive Timball, our sysadmin. The man investigates the problem and keeps us safe from the offenders. This is his story.
Dear fellow earthlings. We are under attack and the thing that is attacking us is our Sun.
I was alerted via friends on IRC, early this morning they shared with me a Facebook image link:
which showed a scary red spot pretty much completely covering North America (my favorite america), but i wanted to know what the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was doing to monitor the situation. So i jumped on the google and quickly found a pile of realtime data directly from NOAA!
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