One suggestion in the old days was to stick a nail in an apple for a while and then eat it. The apple of course. Without the nail
BlushedPotatoPlayers
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Yeah. Way worse that the cup thing or the Japanese eel stuff or the others. That crap still haunts me
But you just told the computer to ignore case...
So, basically the start of The Swarm? Great.
Wait, in the last thread it was a bank
Maybe. We had one of that too, but didn't use it too much either
But... Isn't that standard equipment in every household?
The AdBlock arms race is still going on - would have been more precise
It's worse than that. Authors actually pay (up to several thousand dollars) to publish, the editors who find referees are doing this as a side job, so probably they're not exactly overpaid either. Finally you have the anonymous referee, who not only doesn't get paid, but they get literally zero recognition. Also, papers aren't printed in journals any more, they are online only, so there's no printing fee either, there's only just server hosting costs, paying some people for language editing and final typesetting (in many fields authors must submit LaTeX manuscripts, basically ready for publishing). And profit of course.
I don't think you can make up these kind of things
So, the thing is we can't really predict CMEs. What we can do is observing them by satellites like SOHO or SDO (actually you can also check these data, check for jHelioViewer). While light indeed needs roughly 8 minutes to travel from the Sun, the ejected plasma is much slower than that, it travels at a comfy pace of 1000km/s or so. So it takes about a day to reach Earth (you can do the precise numbers as a homework or use Wolfram alpha to cheat), so from the observations we have roughly this time to do anything.