X7-class Solar Event Detected

Posted by michael on Thursday January 20, 2005 @05:00AM from the kaboom dept.

SlySpy007 writes "Spaceweather.com is reporting on an enormous solar event which took place earlier this evening. This event, emanating from the gigantic sunspot 720, registered as an X7-class event, and increased the 24-hour probability of a minor geomagnetic storm to 60% in mid-latitudes (70% in high latitudes). The GOES-12 satellite happened to catch this event with its SXI instrument (Solar X-ray Imager), and there's a pretty gnarly animation of the event from 720 over at the SXI site. I know this is gonna cause havoc for plenty of missions in orbit now; wonder if we'll see any disturbance here on terra firma." Another reader points to ground-based monitoring stations detecting a surge in cosmic rays at the time of the flare.

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Coincidence? by 3waygeek · 2005-01-20 05:27 · Score: 4, Funny

Note the time this story was submitted -- the exact time that Dubya's second term starts. Obviously ${Diety} is pissed off about Bush's re-election.
Pissed off? by jellisky · 2005-01-20 06:20 · Score: 4, Funny

Solar flares are $[Diety]'s fireworks. $[Diety] is obviously celebrating it all.

(It's all about the spin. Karl Rove would be proud of me... and that makes me feel so incredibly dirty right now. Must clean off stain of Bush/Rove appreciation... IT BURNS!!!!)

-Jellisky