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That's weird.

Not for 'days', but the one that does begin to happen about halfway through is odd.

Well, if it chooses to continue to grow, as opposed to igniting into an actual flare and releasing it's plasma... for starters, Mercury is going to get exceedingly hot, exceedingly fast, as it will be inside the plasma jet. If it grows at the rate that it is currently growing, Venus will most likely have a good deal of it's atmosphere seared away, and Earth is going to experience a very, very warm few days, though albeit in the southern hemisphere for the most part. If it ignites into a flare, however, as it crosses Mercury's path, which is currently very close to our own this time of year, the ensuing CME will be one akin to the one that happened around A.D. 813 wherein they saw auroras in China and India, even as far as northern Africa, as recorded by the various astronomers of those civilizations.

Incidentally we didn't have electrical grids at that time, either. Therefore, indeed, I do hope that it ignites before reaching Mercury, or deal with the extremely bright sun for a few days until it passes and then allow itself to ignite, being as electrical companies in Europe, Asia, and North America all but ignored NASA concerning the Solar Peak this coming year, and have not shielded their power plants, transformers, or wires from high energy particles.

Odd, yes.

And gigantic.

wonder whats going on there?
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