heads up ... solar storm

[zero7404]

sorry ... shoulda put this in off-topic...
anyway this one is headed directly to earth, so it could be harmful. anyhow... my laptop will be offline & other expensive electronics

 

[icculusX]

sorry ... shoulda put this in off-topic...
anyway this one is headed directly to earth, so it could be harmful. anyhow... my laptop will be offline & other expensive electronics

It won't do crap. If it was bad enough to knock out satellites even we would know by now. It won't hurt stuff... They happen all the time, and the bigger ones happen every bunch of years. Never had awful issues. Ill be online tonight haha.

 

[Backnblack]

And if it's really bad, we won't have to long to worry about it.....

 

[Cleskers]

Time to get my Faraday cage out.:icon_evil: Wait thats an EMP....sorry.

 

[Backnblack]

[video=youtube;KQEh5_pSbd4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQEh5_pSbd4]YouTube - Knowing - End of the World (3rd Disaster of 3)[/video]

 

[SixStringTheory]

My dad seems to have headlights go out with solar storms. Either way, nothing to freak out about.

Those are aliens dude. Only is indirectly related to solar activity since they like to use the interference to hide from our detection.

 

[scf]

 

[bamfsig45]

Thats a fitting video..haha

 

[Backnblack]

That never fails to make me laugh.....

 

[OneTenderRebel]

That never fails to make me laugh.....

The cat ones are pretty good. As a man is it ok to laugh at pictures of cats? Or is it points off the man card.

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[KevinJ]

The flare (and CME) from the Sun aren't real huge ones, so there's nothing to worry about. Right now everything looks really quiet, and they're only alerting high-latitude skywatchers to the prospects of northern lights (aurora borealis).

Quote: "NOAA forecasters estimate a 10% chance of major geomagnetic storms and a 45% chance of at least some geomagnetic activity when the clouds arrive on August 3rd and 4th."

As someone who is both a Ham (amateur radio operator) and - more importantly - an astronomer, I'm not too worried. I will use my phone, I will have my computers running. And my tinfoil hat will stay on its shelf.

(Oh yeah - I wouldn't believe anything that's been said on FOX news, or any other news organization. I go right to the source).

 

[russ0627]

New Storm

I was wondering why my Droid started making static noises all by itself. I started doing a little research and found this website article:

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]SOLAR BLAST JUST MISSES EARTH:[/FONT] On August 7th (1825 UT), magnetic fields around sunspot 1093 became unstable and erupted, producing a strong M1-class solar flare. Several amateur astronomers caught the active region in mid-flare, while NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded an extreme ultraviolet movie of the entire event:

Note: A full-disk movie is also available.​

The eruption hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space, just missing a direct sun-Earth line. Forecasters expect the cloud to deliver no more than a glancing blow to our planet's magnetic field when it billows by on August 9th or 10th--not a major space weather event.
Future eruptions could turn out differently. Active region 1093 is rotating toward Earth. By the end of this weekend, we'll be in the line of fire if its magnetic fields become unstable again. Space Weather Phone subscribers will be the first to know.


Is anyone else experiencing static from their Droid?

 

[Backnblack]

My dad seems to have headlights go out with solar storms. Either way, nothing to freak out about.

Those are aliens dude. Only is indirectly related to solar activity since they like to use the interference to hide from our detection.

Not my quote there.....