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assumpting that the thing which will rip is female?
I suspect it's more a phonological thang than grammatical. "Let 'er rip" is easier to say than "let it rip" or "let 'im rip."
And are you sure that shouldn't be 'assumptating'?
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"Assumpting" goes better with eta's "assumpcision."
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"assumpcision."
Then I might suggest "assumpcising" or "assumpcizing" if you're one of USn.
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assumpcizingdo I get points for the assist? 
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Re: "flare let rip". "It seemed a bit pesante for a science article."
Oh, I don't know, etaoin.
It sounds poetic, even electrifying to me.
Like lightning ripping through the stillness of an ink black night. Or a canon ripping through the silence of a village green.
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I'm surprised nobody else has noticed that if you capitalize "rip" the meaning is just the opposite.
In hallowed ground, Requjiescat In Pace.
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what's the origin of this
eta, the first thing that comes to mind is, tear with force', essentially implying a lack of control (irregular, jagged edges) over the process. In your example, the imagery is that of flames ripping through (tearing through) the solar atmosphere without control.
[aside] Needlework was mandatory learning in one of the schools I attended, and I was extremely poor at it. To get the threads in a straight neat line was, for me, an impossible task. The only thing that stays with me after all this time, is the teacher's desperate cry (more like an angry bark actually) every time she saw my work - 'Rip it out'!
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