Solar flare my ass... this is an offensive assault on Earth from the Solarian High Command. Apparently, they've been brewing this storm for a while - it's the size of Jupiter now - and they have positioned it directly to hit Earth. The Sun is like a big Death Star, and the solar flare generator is their primary weapon.

100 years ago, no one would have given a hoot if the sun was going to have a coronal mass ejection. What do you think people will have to worry about 100 years from today that we currently don't even know about? (Guess that's a hard question to answer if we don't know what the answer is. Perhaps it's rhetorical.)

"Coronal Mass Ejection" would be a good title for a p0rn film. Maybe something about astronomers going at it.