Violent eruption on Sun [Amazing Big Pics]

First thought on reading the headline - Bill Joy finally lost his cool while giving a big tell-all interview.

Interesting. Video from the site <a href="http://news.discovery.com/videos/space-sdo-captures-eruptions-on-sun.html" rel="nofollow">http://news.discovery.com/videos/space-sdo-captures-eruption...</a>

Could anyone briefly explain what consequences this could have for us?

anyone know where I can download the hi-res versions of these pics? it looks like they're displayed through flash so all I could do is take a screenshot of a small pic