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Yet Another Big Solar Flare
philthedrill writes "CNN is reporting that the sun has fired another large solar flare towards Earth. This one could arrive as early as Thursday (Oct. 30th) afternoon. (insert end-of-the-world statement here)."
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Who Cares. I mean after awhile this becomes so boring. Jesus can't we pick on SCO today.
WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!
pumping our sun to supernova so they can power their lightsails to the next star system.
Phoenix
"I have not seen anything like it in my entire career as a solar physicist. The probability of this happening is so low that it is a statistical anomaly."
You know, 'statistical anomaly' is NOT what I want to hear from solar physicists about my particular sun.
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Why do I suddenly feel like making backups of all my important data... and why do I think it will be of absolutely no use at all?!
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I still recovering from all the radiation form the last one! Oh the horror!
See www.spaceweather.com for more info. SEC's Space Weather Now, however, seems to be down (www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN).
Do these flares affect humans (or even wildlife) at all? You know, even if it is the same way that pets can sense when an earthquake is about to happen....
Well, will tinfoil hats protect us from onslaught of solar flares? i have a whole stockpile.. $5.99 a piece, message me for details!
Excuse me, I don't mean to impose, but I am the ocean
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Probably by sheer luck and bad timing, I had 3 monitors all fail on the same day while I was at a customers. Couldn't explain the failure (it was definitely an anomoly) but maybe it had something to do with bad power that may have been caused by fluctuations in the power grid?
From the troll that brought you the FAQse.cx on the previous article.
>the sun has fired another large solar flare towards Earth
what other kinds of flares could it possibly send? im pretty sure if the sun is involved, then it is solar. Now Im going to go plug my PIN number into an ATM machine.
a kid in rural Kansas is accidentally throwing a tractor a half mile from his farm.
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
It's a pity that more people don't get to view these phenomena, because of modern light pollution. How many people are losing awe-inspiring sights, such as this and the milky-way?
((lambda x ((x))) (lambda x ((x))))
Stupid sun.
It's those bastard photino birds going at it again...
How much do solar flares effect computer equipment?
I'm in Toronto and I'm hoping that the northern lights show will keep up until dusk here.
So, who has seen them so far, and how far south are you?
Has the scientist given any explanation about this yet. I remember reading that this was unusual activity for the normal cycles.
Otherwise, join me in a verse of the REM song
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
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I'll take all the cellphone interruptions I can get. Go sun go!
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Hrm, over the last week or so, it seems that 802.11 fails to work over longer distances due to extra noise. Is this just my imagination or could it possibly have anything to do with the solar flares?
Anyone know for sure if ground communications are affected at all or just sattelites?
Y'know, I don't really care. I don't really like talking about my flair.
Will the Aurora be visible from, say, St. Louis,
San Francisco, or Washington, D.C. ??? How far above the horizon with the Northen Lights be? What time?
not to jump to conclusions or anything, but does anyone know if things like this are a sign of impending doom for our sun, or is it just "something happening".
have such frequent large flares been observed before on other stars?
How long could we go without the sun? Say it just fizzled out, how long before we become an ice cube? Could science react and save mankind?
A big cloud of plasma will end the world later today. Thus, for good luck, paypal your credit limit and/or bank account to: mrk@azureheights.com
In exchange, I will do a good luck dance/chant/whatever for you. Thanks for your cooperation.
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Well seeing as how your post is modded as 0, I would say your system isn't working to well.
You guys are aware that solar flare and sunspot activity are connected to a cycle and that this kind of thing will happen for quite awhile longer before the activity dies off, right? There is really no point of putting up a story about every time we have a big flare, because this could go on for awhile and is really quite normal behavior.
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This could shape up to be a really amazing Halloween. For some reason, that 80's movie about Halley's comet's tail intersecting the earth and making zombies out of everyone that wasn't in a lead-lined room comes to mind. I, for one, will welcome our new zombie overlord masters.
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From the article:
Space weather forecasters say this spate of strong solar flares is not consistent with normal solar behavior. The sun, which follows an 11-year activity cycle, has been quieting down since the last peak in 2000.
Although we humans have been looking at the sun since before we climbed out of the trees (and our moms have been telling us not to even longer), it's almost silly to say that any observation of our local star is "not consistent with normal solar behavior." Just how many of those 11-year cycles have been recorded?
If the ancient Chinese were using pinhole solar viewers to count sunspots for the past 5000 years, that would be one thing. But as has been posted in every Slashdot story on the subject, we have maybe 200 years of scientific data (of varying quality) out of the sun's five billion year history. Even W's pollsters would tell you that sample size is too small.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Sweetness. A great opportunity to utilize my "BOFH excuse of the day" calendar.
There is a perceptible slowing of the Internet as the flare hits our magnetosphere -- at first I thought this might be satellite-related, however the slowdown appears to occur within the country as well as to overseas links. Perhaps this is related to the effect on the power grid?
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
So far I haven't see*#*%-*@#FFgo)$}+!3UjadfWUER
this is my most feared natural disaster.
why was this not on the poll?
no i have not shot my gun in the air and gone 'Ahh!'
So did Jennifer Aniston's manager on officespace!
"Sun Declares War On Earth; Sick Of Earth Leeching Off It"
OH NO! The Crystal Planet is on it's way!
Quick, someone discover Endurium fast so we can build a superphotonic starship and get the fuck off of this planet!
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
I wonder how it'll affect the BPL test sites. Most BPL (broadband over powerline) would be affected somehow since they operate on HF frequencies. Additionally most shortwave radio was adversely affected.
I saw some of last night's aurora from my location in SE Arkansas. Anyone else see the aurora?
I remember some time ago there was a story on Slashdot about how the solar cycle was at its peak, and people even at low latitudes could see the Aurora Borealis. Unfortunately I missed out on it that time, but I'd love to see the Aurora still. Does anyone know if these solar flares will again allow people as far south as San Francisco or even Los Angeles to see the Aurora?
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I've coated the whole motherboard with SPF-50 sunblock. Ain't none of that darn sun radiation gonna get my computer.
If anyone needs me I'll be out back holding my hotdog-on-a-stick up real high...
p.s. Anyone else smell coconut burning?
> (insert end-of-the-world statement here)
Or at least the end of my superpowers! Somebody saaaavveee mmmeeeee...
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This one could arrive as early as Thursday (Oct. 30th) afternoon. (insert end-of-the-world statement here).
Well, that's moot for another year, thanks to the Yankees and Marlins....
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Hmmmm... the BOFH excuse generator turns up a real excuse for once....
are the commercial news agencies just milking what they think will get them more page views?
Oooh... you mean the other Sun. pfft
been declared a weapon of mass destruction, capable of destroying North Americans without regard to political or religious affiliation? I thought the Bush administration was taking these threats out one by one. Or is this in next year's budget.
(it's funny. laugh)
Well, the universe has finally got so pissed off at the Bushies, it decided to destroy the Earth.
that it's time we stopped worshipping Allah, Jesus, and Buddha, and go back to worshipping Sun gods? Clearly she's pissed ...
"And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman." "Hello." "Good boy."
we were kicking a football around last night and I guess it got up a little high.. probably disturbed things. I guess I should've tried to get it down with a stick or something, didn't mean to leave it up there.
wait 'til my 10-year-old finds out what he did... man.... I hope the end of the world doesn't come or santa's gonna be pissed....
Best headline I saw on these was on MSNBC Wednesday. My wife told me about it, but I went and confirmed myself:
Space Storm hits; Earth Survives
Which, of course, is amazing news and you certainly wouldn't have known if the alternative had occurred.
I'd provide a link, but like most of the online news outlets they readily change story headlines and content throughout the day. It's completely different now and talks about the current state and the upcoming flare output tomorrow (Friday).
The Ultimate Slashdotting.
End of Line.
This is obviously caused by SUVs.
The gas from the flare reached us this afternoon (EST); a geomagnetic storm is now underway. Auroras are very likely to be visible as soon as it gets dark. Skies over most of the eastern U.S. should be clear tonight. Check spaceweather.com for more info.
So did Jennifer Aniston's manager on officespace!
Definately a step in the wrong direction. We we want her wearing less, not more.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
There comes a point when you can joke about any tragedy. I'm constantly making jokes about the War of 1812, but I bet you wouldn't like that, would you?
So, how many solar flares do you think it will take to turn all the people on the Space Station into superheros?
will this start our glorious age of super powers?
When I read this line, "I have not seen anything like it in my entire career as a solar physicist. The probability of this happening is so low that it is a statistical anomaly.", I cringed. Either a) This guy thinks his model is great & really believes that this is a 1/1,000,000,000 event, or b) he knows that this indicates a whole in his model, but the reporter ripped the quote out of context to make the story more sensational.
A little statistics primer is in order. In order to quote odds on anything, a statistician needs a model, generally based on existing data. When there is an event that's off the charts, it will usually indicate to the scientist (or engineer) that there is a deficiency in their model (or their process is out of control, for manufacturing types). If I were a solas scientist, this event would indicate to me that the model is not adequate for predicting this sort of thing. Which makes sense, since we probably only have 40 years worth of data; you expect to be thrown a curve-ball every now and then.
So I doubt it really is a statistical anomanly; maybe these solar-flare pairs occur every 50 years or so & that's why we haven't seen it before. But either the reporter needs to better explain the meaning of the quote, or the quotee needs to take a basic course on the limits of statistical probability.
According to last nights Smallville it affects those from Krypton. Watch out all you Kryponites
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
No size restrictions and screw the limit!
Go watch Office Space you moron.
They really don't effect computers at all. That's becauI(*lk%^)9jkj [NO CARRIER]
Luckily our terrestrial weather forcasting (which has a far greater impact on our lives) is a little better. I've had more warning before tornados!
According http://spaceweather.com/ these storms
originate from from giant sunspot 486. I can't
wait to see the storms that come from super-giant
sunspot Pentium....not to mentions those from
Pentium II, III or IV.
I don't know why or how, but SCO is behind this....
"Release the Linux source code to us or we extinguish THE SUN!"
"(I meant the sun in the sky, you dope)"
You fuckin' drunken Cananadians!
I'm Steve Stevenson for the daily channel 192 news. Tonight, in a related story we brought to you yesturday, the sun has once again tried to destroy the earth. The sun claims that "we were in the way" and stated "when ya gotta go, ya gotta go..."
President George W. Bush commented on the topic claiming that the sun may be in league with known terrorist group Al-Queda. President Bush attempted to stare down the sun in a show of bravery when his eyes were severely burned due to over exposure to UV rays without blinking. Later on today, President Bush will be launching a "Shock and Awe campaign" directed towards the sun to send the message that the United States does not deal with terrorists...
Go ahead, deny that you got a good laugh...
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A scam in which all people involved perceive as beneficial...
The Department of Homeland Insanity will surely be warning all patriotic residents to buy duct tape and plastic sheets for protection from evil doers.
Very patriotically yours,
Kilgore Trout
Sorry, used them all up awhile ago.
Hopefully these aren't just warning shots...
I'm surprised the environuts have not called for legislation to prevent the sun from "polluting" and "irradiating" the environment. Perhaps they plan to sue the sun into submission.
"Watch out, Radioactive Man! The Sun is exploding again!"
...let's skip the daily reposting on this till we see one that looks like it's going to mean we really do need those tinfoil hats.
Until then, set your browser homepage to SpaceWeather.Com to keep updated.
It was cloudy and raining when I posted the last time.
However it cleared up by evening. I was working late keeping an eye on the Real-Time Aurora Map which was looking pretty quiet when all of a sudden almost the entire northern hemisphere is coverd in a big red circle.
Went outside and sure enough, the Northern sky is aglow in blue and red.
Very cool.
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
a) It's a freaking OFFICE SPACE JOKE, ya think Mike Judge caught shit for writing it.... no I think not. b) I find it funny and I am the grandson of a surviver, who ALSO found it (and the movie it's self ) funny. Well ok the fish thing wasnt so funny to her but still!!!! c) It's over-sensitive people like you who start wars over stupid shit you should just shrug off, instead of letting everyone be themselves and just leave everything well enough alone.
"Slashdot, where telling the truth is overrated but lying is insightful."
I only hope the spirit of Douglas Adams is out there enjoying the show.
--- Ban humanity.
No.
You tell me how "whilst" differs from "while," and I'll stop calling you a pretentious jackass.
I called 1800-USA4SUN about this.
They recommended patching.
My great-grandfather died at Auschwitz!
He got drunk and fell out of his guardtower!
Sun delivers yet another shot at Earth
In other news, President George W. Bush as extended the Axis of Evil to include the Sun. "This supposed ally has been flexing its nucular [sic] muscles without U.N. oversight for generations. While small infractions can be overlooked, a direct strike at the U.S. will not be ignored."
Then you haven't seen this!
One interesting effect from the fires in California (specifically San Diego) is that the smoke has made it very easy to view the sun. Since the smoke has been so dense, the sun has appeared as this rich red-orange disc in the sky, with little dark dots on it where the solar flares are. I wish I had taken a picture, but I'm sure somebody can dig one up on google.
IMPACT: A coronal mass ejection (CME) swept past Earth today, Oct. 30th, at approximately 1700 UT. Conditions are favorable for a strong geomagnetic
storm as a result of the impact. The CME was hurled toward our planet yesterday by an X10-class explosion from giant sunspot 486. Sky
watchers should remain alert for auroras.
If this were easy, they wouldn't need us to do it!
Here. When your area is covered in red go out and look.
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
(insert end-of-the-world statement here)
No thank you.
(Bloviate Mode On... loading Limbaugh module):
;P
Folks! We've got another big one for you. It seems that while those tree hugging environmentalist wackos have been touting solar energy as being "clean, safe and renewable", the sun has been taking pot shots at the Earth. How's that for "clean, safe and renewable"? Let's face it. These windbags want us to believe their lies about the sun being nice and friendly and we should all hold hands and sing songs. But now the truth is coming out. The sun is a dangerous form of energy! In fact (exec pull-statistics-out-of-ass module), in all 175 nuke plants around the world, there is only one, that's right folks, one plant that ever had any problems! And that's a plant that was government run in the old USSR. 100% of all the plants run by Enron have been 100% efficient, 100% reliable and 100% safe! Now, I don't know about you, but I would far rather have a small controllable nuclear incident in some little town in the midwest rather than the sun shooting some giant supercharged gases at my home. It's a credit to my listeners that you know where to go to get th real facts. Excelence in Broadcasting. That's what we're all about!(kill -9 Bloviate... uloading Limbaugh module)
Hehehe... where to start with this one... hehehehehe...
Un-news
...for these solar flares now. I can just see it... Enviro-wackos blaming oil and SUV's for the massive solar activity.
-- Liberalism is a mental disorder.
According to the BBC, magnetic north varied by 5 degrees in 25mins starting from 0830 GMT, as the storm swept passed us.
lets burn down the observatory so that this never happens again!
The pieces of flair comment was in Office Space, but it didn't relate to Jewish people. Come off it you fucking Nazis. What I wouldn't give to have everyone one of your addresses and come and slay you in your sleep.
"Allah, Buddha, Jesus! I love you all!"
Has anyone noticed any effects of the Aurora other than the nice light show?
Last night a computer turned on here all by itself sometime during the night. It's never happened before, but it could just be a concidence.
The original version here.
Bush, Cheney, and Halburton as destroying on environment with their blantant outbursts!
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Secretly overheard recently
Global Warming, I'll give them some GLOBAL WARMING!
S.
I have been observing some strange, seemingly random problems with some computers I have that run at 2.8Ghz. As far as I can tell, there should be nothing wrong with them that would cause failures, nonetheless, they have been failing! Could this be caused by solar interference? Maybe...
If random high energy EMI does tamper with high speed circuits, what does that mean for modern computing? Perhaps our next wave of computer technology will have fall back snapshots that are used when things don't check out anymore.
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/pe rfect_space_storm.html
... was this: ... From August 28 to September 2 several solar flares were observed. Then, on September 1, the Sun released a mammoth solar flare. For almost an entire minute the amount of sunlight the Sun produced at the region of the flare actually doubled."
... just a couple days ago.
"Remarkably, science has documented solar events a hundred times more intense... But none of them interacted with the Earth in such a violent manner."
"What transpired
"The question I get asked most often is, 'Could a perfect space storm happen again, and when?'" added Tsurutani. "I tell people it could, and it could very well be even more intense than what transpired in 1859. As for when, we simply do not know."
Perhaps we're looking at something similar now. Interestingly, the article I grabbed these quotes from was published 10.24.03
For those of you wondering, this is a reference to Larry Niven's "The Fourth Profession". This is considered one of Niven's best short works.
... spaceship captain ... teleporter .... translator ... but Ed can't remember how many pills he took, or if the confusing overload of information in his head shadows the terrible secret of their mission.
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Summary is as follows:
An interstellar trading ship arrived in the moon's orbit two years ago, and the few aliens who have descended to Earth have stayed in their landing craft or at the United Nations building in New York City. When one of the aliens unexpectedly shows up in a Los Angeles tavern, bartender Ed Frazer awakes the next morning with the strangest hangover of his life. Ed barely remembers taking the pills offered by the alien; each pill flooding his brain with the knowledge of an alien profession
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I missed the Aurora Borealis from the last one because it was socked in around here. Now the sky is clear, I might get to see it this time.
Alternate between lots of sex and quiet contemplation. That way, when you die you're 50% happy and 50% solemly dignified. :)
Does this mean I should repent for my sins, or do a lot of sinning while there's still time?
Things that make you go "Hmmm..."
Thank God for these solar flares. Otherwise wtf else would the media have to report about. Its better than a snow storm. Gimme a break Solar flares are regular occurances. This is nothing unusual, strangely enough - just like a snow storm.
Why haven't I seen anyone on the news lately saying this is a sign of the apocalyse? I mean, why isn't Jerry Fallwell up on the mountain a-prayin' to Jebus for forgiveness of all man's sin and to save the planet?
Or is he too busy molesting little boys?
Proof that the solar cycle and the Slashdot effect are related!
We DON'T just have the Sun on record, though. We've been looking at various other stars of various other types and ages for quite some time. Admittedly, it's not the same as observing OUR star for its complete lifetime, but it does extend confidence in models explaining its behaviour beyond what we could base on our direct local observations alone. If those models support our limited data, we have justification for considering that data as significant.
but hey iam not bothered, wont affect me or you
or will it ?
it could all be gone by next week
thank goodness we where clever enough as a civilisation not to store it on something that could be damaged by forces way above our control
we are experts are we not ?
Decipher (slashdot)
I prefer SWTA but Crystal Planet is good too.
It's frigging thursday 22:30 over here, and NOW you tell me we are going to be hit by a flare this afternoon!?
What are we? Living in the age where we use pigeons to spread emergency news!?
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A solar flare is what killed the dinosaurs !!
Ok maybe it was combined with something else, or maybe it caused something else which caused the dinosaurs to die.
That's why SUNW stock is up today? ;-)
...the sun has fired another large solar flare towards Earth.
Lets hope that Bush doesn't decide we need to declare war on the sun for attacking us without provocation.
Okay everyone, will you stop pissing off the Sun!!
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
CNN: "Power grids in the northern United States and Canada felt the effects of the first storm. Utilities endured power surges and closely monitored their systems to prevent surges, according to NOAA."
... This magnetic field change, which occurs fairly rapidly, then induces currents in nearby conductors. ... In those areas that do not have high conductivity, such as those areas that contain igneous rock, the induced current flows through any available current path-typically, the long utility system lines for power, gas, oil, water, and telecommunications."
Check out this article for more details on how solar flares cause these surges.
Excerpt:
"If (when) this flow of charged particles and embedded magnetic field collides with the Earth, it dramatically disrupts Earth's geomagnetic field and ionosphere, changing the terrestrial magnetic fields
Take off, every Hoser
Excellent, I'm having a bonfire out in the field tonight, and the weather has cleared up, so conditions look to be good. It will be a fun night... esp since the people showing up are a bunch of pyros and it's so wet here that you could drop in some napalm and not start much of a blaze...
Skywatching for me tonight...
On Arrakis: early worm gets the bird. Magister mundi sum!
Now they must start to believe!
Not another one! I'm still trying to clean up the mess and restore the damage from the last flare?
What mess and damage, you ask? How should I know, I'm still looking for it. The media kept telling me there would be major problems, so it has to be around here somewhere.
Aha! That two year old battery in my smoke alarm is dead! Obviously the fault of solar flares.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
xenon i'm still waiting for my money --borno
Taste like crab, talk like people...
Please! The last thing we need is more Auroras!
With regards,
Car & Driver
Fuck the world trade center and all its victims. Who gives a shit, really.
And I, for one, welcome our new solar overlords!
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" c) It's over-sensitive people like you who start wars over stupid shit you should just shrug off, instead of letting everyone be themselves and just leave everything well enough alone."
It's usually a combination of overly sensitive people and underly sensitive types. On one hand, people need a sense of humor, on the other, people could stand to be a little more sypmathetic.
You're both right, and you're both wrong. Instead of beating each other up over it, try using a little understanding of each other's view, will ya?
"Derp de derp."
Sorry, couldn't resist - it was just on last night.
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Can someone explain that image to me please? What do they mean by noon meridian? I thought that noon at any given meridian is when the sun is at the apex of its daily path when viewed from the meridian in question.
There is no such thing as luck. Luck is nothing but an absence of bad luck.
"Game over, man, game over! What're we gonna do now, huh?"
I say we take off and nuke the Sun from the Oort Cloud. It's the only way to be sure.
i fail to see (*&&gf%kjsdfs how this affects **^#kade' me.
"I have not seen anything like it in my entire career as a solar physicist. The probability of this happening is so low that it is a statistical anomaly,"
It's nice to know that the space weather people are just as accurate as the local forcast.
~~ Behold the flying cow with a rail gun! ~~
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In other news, Eolas Technologies Inc, protagonists in the now-famous 'plugins patent case' announce they have ownership rights for Patent 9,999,666 "Coronal Mass Ejections as a source of wonderment and scientific curiosity" and are considering action against any persons found to be in any shape or form 'fascinated' by such phenomena without paying an appropriate fee.
"We plan to monitor national and international news sites for announcements about the phenomena", a spokesperson for Eolas said. "If a 'northern lights/aurora' event is predicted in a certain geographic area, we may send observers into the district looking for signs of persons peering into the sky and uttering indicative phrases such as "oooh" and "aaah", at which time we will ask to see confirmation that they have visited our prepayment web site (http://www.oohaahwowthatsamazing.con), paid for and downloaded their e-ticket permitting them to watch the event and be impressed. Only in cases where subjects can prove that staring at the phenomena did not cause any feeling of wonderment or in-depth thoughts about the enormity of the universe and the fragility of life will we consider waiving or reducing our demands for payment. A scheme is also in place for the scientific community and if we get notification of anyone so much as waving a thermocouple in the general direction of the sun we will expect our reasonable demands for payment to be met".
AT&ROFLMAO
Get your tinfoil hats out :-)
If you don't like what I write don't be a CS and mod it down. Refute it.
Yea I can't spell. So what is your point?
Since right now, I'm now living north of Aurora?
Niven's it is. That's why I love posting here. You can always count on someone to get your obscure references. :)
Phoenix
Still nothing. My cell phone still works cable hass not had a problem. I don't see the big information systems problems happening. These are not things to be worried about. Now if one pops out big enough to singe my nose hairs then maybe we should get worried.
Well it isn't MSNBC, but space.com has a story with that exact headline (thank you google news): Space Storm Hits, Earth Survives
We've been watching huge displays of the aurora from Central Scotland - just north of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Very impressive having not seen them before! We first saw them at around 1845 GMT and the display is still good intermittently at 2240 GMT. Huge beams from the zenith to the horizon if you can get away from local light pollution.
The Earth sure protects us from a lot of rigours of outer space. Go Atmosphere! ^^
Data != Information Over the years, my flatulence may have had varying degrees of strength. It has both pleased and offended many. Some still remember certain spectacular events while others have passed into obscurity. But none of this tells you if I ate a chillidog, nor the quantity. There is no substitue for analysis of directly observed data.
Harmlessness of solar flares aside, you can definately catch a tan outside these next few days.....
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Together, we will drive the rats from the tundra.
HAHAHA,You must've pissed a lot of people off with that comment :P
I stopped liking the matrix series right at the begining of matrix 2, so I don't mind knowing the end before it gets out.
"I blame President Bush and his tax cuts!"
Hell, there are no rules here. We're trying to accomplish something. - Thomas Edison
I love pot, Rage Against The Machine, Womyns literature and Che Gurrivera. I George Bush. I heard he gives halliburton blow jobs and taxpayer dollars that he steals from the homeless. E!
i for one welcome our new solar flare overlords
I for one welcome the alien overlords who are hurling comets at the sun. Even if those fools at NASA claim that it has nothing to do with it.
Maybe we should get a craft with solar sail up and waiting asap, for next event? :)
I really, really hate the jewish mentallity. If the muslims killed others because they considered themselves the "chosen" ones, they would be labeled terrorists -
- Oh wait.
Get the fuck over yourselves and live in peace with rest of the world. You are NOT the chosen ones. Noone is for that matter - could you jews and the rest of you religous fanatics get on with your armageddon and get the fuck out of the way of progress? Please?
ymmv
Had he not thown all those nuclear weapons at the Sun we wouldn't have the sun attacking us like this.
"Quest for World Peace" Yeah right!! Now we have angered the sun gods and they will be bombarded by Coronal Mass Ejections for the rest of our lives and eventually the world will look like the moon.
Thanks a whole lot superman! You freaking alien git!!!
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
If were all gonna die, man. I'm gonna grab the hottest chick I see and just do her man. Yeah man. Thats the way to go.
And all those Tree Huggers...
Draining the sun with all those solar collectors!
Started a siphon effect, and it will go on until we use all that energy , or build back the smog shield to reflect the energy back to the sun.
China makes it to space then we start having these solar flares every couple of days... Interesting...
I wonder what effect, if any, solar flares have on satellites? My dad is staying in the Netherlands for a month, and he hasn?t called me in three days. I wonder if he?s having trouble calling the United States.
Which is itself a nod from Matt Groening to Asimov's classic short "Nightfall"
-- your Web browser is Ronald Reagan
I though first of Stephen Baxter's Manifold Space Novel. He almost certainly got the idea from Niven's short though.
-- your Web browser is Ronald Reagan
Does anyone want to comment on a possible relationship between the flipping of earth's magnetic poles and this kind of activity on the sun?
After all, rumor has it that we're about 500,000 years overdue for a pole-flip, no? And this activity is probably operating on a different cycle than our 11-year solar model. Could there be a connection?
Mark my words. Or mark Nostradamus': http://www.earthchangestv.com/predict/nostrabobus/ 0221sun.htm ;-)
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John Kohl also had another quote, recited here at Canadian news agency CJAD [ http://www3.cjad.com/content/cjad_news/article.asp ?id=w103069A]
He was quoted as commenting thusly:
" Kohl said he's not aware of any other time since at least 1976 that two such large solar storms have been directed toward Earth in the space of two days."
So,, it would appear that this happened before, in 1976, indicating that this is not so unprecedented.
You may *yawn*, but obviously you don't live up here in the Pacific Northwest, where the O.B. in the sky has brought back flashbacks from collage acid trips, and without drugs!
My Karma is bad. May I take you out for a drink? It's on me...
>>he knows that this indicates a whole in his model
Is this some ancient Celtic definition of whole I don't know about or something?
Plasma has mass, right, and its moving past the Earth at 1 million miles/hour (give or take a few hundred K). Could the Earth be pushed into a higher orbit around the Sun? Even a few miles would screw up the clocks. A few hundred miles might cure global warming. -bill
as early as Thursday (Oct. 30th) afternoon
Last I checked there were some 24 time zones.
The Earth's magnetic field is caused by the flow of mag-ma underground. Can disturbing the magnetic field in space exert a sizable force on this magma possibly causing lavos to escape and destroy the planet unless Chrono Trigger saves the day?
Eat at Joe's.
Northern lights are currently visible in New England. They're bright, vivid, and right overhead, so they ought to be visible much farther south as well.
Expect more large flares due to solar warming.
No one listens to me but global warming is due to an increase in the Sun's output. Not abuse of our environment.
When the Earth starts frying, you all will wish for the glory days of beautiful auroras and I will be smug. Dead. But smug.
Jesus saves....And takes 1/2 damage.
Hahaha... that's the funniest thing I've seen all day.
FYI - We got quite the show this evening in western Maine! started around 6:15.. lasted until around 7:45ish... I hadn't read anything in advance so it was quite the treat. Fortunatly we live far enough outside of any heavily-lighted area that we could see it very well.
that the energy created in the center of the sun takes a million years to reach the surface of the sun. Could the process of solar flares be this complex or is there a seperate weather system in or on the sun's surface? My guess is the several layers of the sun play a part with the surface the majority of changes needed for a flare,then there is gravity,metallic helium(correct me on this if needed),a pound or two of liqid plasma. Or is it just the transfer of the energy to empty space that creates these storms(I like this idea), I would like to say the solar storm(s) made me smarter but I have to stop now, any thoughts?
I eat my grapes at room temperature, cuz the cold ones hurt my teeth
You will be mine, oh yes, you will be mine...
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
Southern california burning to the ground, a Lochead Martin and Lear report the sun is dying, the universe is 16.6 Billion years old, flat and time doesn't exist. Combined with : organic computers, a new chemical to stop sleep, new govener in cali, and a brown holl found "close" to the solar system. Does this count as a bad day to be a traditional scientist?
Doh!
OK, who fed the sun some taco bell?
i, persoanlly would like to take this oppertunity to welcome our new solar overlords.
Is it a coincidence that this weeks eposiode of Smallville was about a major solar flare that disturbed Clark's powers? Spooky!
It seems that the cycle isn't as regular as some people think, although it has been 11 years before, all we are talking about is probably a turbulant flow pattern within the Sun itself. Such activity can appear regular for extended periods and then suddenly change.
See my journal, I write things there
...I fail to see how damaging Slashdot further will help fix any of the problems you attribute to Slashdot.
But, of course, this is just another repetitive troll group in the guise of anarchist "freedom fighters" for a "less repressive Slashdot".
If any of you groups had an original troll, it might be worth doing, but the fake account/goatse/"troll database" stuff makes you just another (GNAA|Trollkore|M00kore) wannabe.
"America has done some terrible things. But I know that Americans don't cheer when innocents die." -Dave Barry
Deedee must be in the laboratory again.
Okay, or maybe you shouldn't have said anything because I wondered what you were talking about and re-read AC's post a little more closely and got fucked.
Don't read that post. Christ, what an asshead.
That reminds me of the 80-something guy who was living on the side of Mount St. Helens. Despite the warnings of scientists, he didn't feel the need to leave, since he'd been there most of his life and nothing had ever happened. Blooie.
This is all a result of global warming.
"Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand / your actions speak so loud I can't hear a word you're saying"