Yet Another Big Solar Flare

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 30, 2003 @08:27AM from the put-on-your-foil-hat dept.

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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Flying sucks by The+Real+Le+Roi · 2003-10-30 08:29 · Score: 0, Troll

I'll be flying north of the 57th parallel tomorrow. I hope this solar storm settles down.
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For all you environmentalist wackos by Trolling4Dollars · 2003-10-30 09:14 · Score: 1, Troll

(Bloviate Mode On... loading Limbaugh module):

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... ;P

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Re:one quote... by trb · 2003-10-30 09:17 · Score: 1, Troll

What he said:
"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."

What he meant:
"I don't understand the interactions between solar flares, so I assume that if two big ones happen in the same week, it must be an uncorrelated anomalous miracle of science."