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Sun Releases Largest Radiation Storm in 15 Years
what_the_frell writes "Newscientist is reporting that a large cluster of sunspots has just released huge amounts of radiation toward Earth. The crew of the ISS reportedly had to move into the bulkier Russian section of the station, while airlines rerouted planes away from the most affected regions. Look forward to varying degrees of radio & cell phone reception and some pretty cool aurora boreali until January 22, when the sunspot storm turns away from the earth, pointing its radiation elsewhere."
I blame global warming.
Are you secure enough in your masculinity to run 'man touch'?
God Damn..., GPRS is bad as it is.....
As I have already said countless times on such occasions, now astrologers, psychics and other quacks are going to force their supersticious, geocentric, pseudoscientific, religious, flat earth, stupid mambo jumbo upon us, because those solar storms must surely have an influence on people. At least there will be something interesting to read on Randi.org, I guess.
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
they have to be behind this ... they have to..
Who reads (on ./!) "Sun releases..." and thinks about new, hopefully open-sourced, version of Solaris, not radiation? ;-)
Paul B.
No. And you are also not the only one if you read the story and thought "great, another IIS vulnerability."
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
We down here at the end of the world on New Zealand's South Island look forward to view the magnificent Aurora australiensis, even if it is horribly misnamed.
Sun who?
-m
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The plural of aurora borealis would be aurorae boreales.
My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
Posted by michael on 23:52 Friday 21 January 2005: "Look forward to varying degrees of radio & cell phone reception and some pretty cool aurora boreali until January 22". Wow, thanks. All of eight minutes to look forward to something and drive to a place with a nice clear sky.
Do you thi@%S^$@I%ere will be any pr%^VW#$%ms with wirel$%^)*VDTY$%^#$B%^&$%ternet?
Will this release take a version jump from 1.4 to 5.0?
Sun Releases Largest Radiation Storm in 15 Years
All well and good but when is OpenSolaris coming?
Rich
It's curious that that pluralization to aurorae boreales has stuck around so long. It's certainly used. For example, Walt Whitman wrote
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Amid pictures that dart upon me even as I speak, and glow and mix and coruscate and fade like aurorae boreales.
--Walt Whitman, "Notes (Such as They Are) Founded on Elias Hicks"
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But why is this?
For example, "major general"
would be pluralized to "majors general"
when it was newly introduced into the language. The pluralization would follow its, I believe, french roots.
As the word stayed longer in our language it would be treated as an english phrase. We would eventually start saying "major generals"
Websters dictionary gives the following entymology for aurora borealis;
[New Latin aurra borelis : Latin aurra, dawn + Latin borelis, northern.]
My question is; why are we still treating 'Aurora Borealis' like a foreign phrase? In English, we certainly wouldn't say "northerns lights." Is it because it's considered a technical term so we still treat it as a latin phrase? Or is it just not popular enough in its usage to be treated as plain English?
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
Damn it, the Sun.
We can't get much work done here. At any time a solar flare produces a greater flux of high energy particles in space, we have to shut down spacecrafts til everything is nominal. A series of the recent flare events are shutting down at least one satellite since Jan 16th and now it looks like the blackout will last til 23rd. That's a major blow to the efficiency of the usage (one of NASA's favorite metrics).
And I thought Sun actually released a decently product when I saw the title....
Thank You, ...
And there's the ARRL VHF sweepstakes this weekend. Should certainly be fun. 6m was open tonight (was hearing Florida in Indiana), but things may change over the weekend.
I'm not very familiar with VHF/UHF propagation modes. Anyone have any hints on what this may do to propagation on the VHF and up bands?
from when bender shines the Z ray at Fry's crotch in the episode Fry and the Slurm Factory ...
"AWW, my sperm!"
... making good men go sterile since the begining of time.
The Sun
I was imaging this big deathray pointing out of Sun's HQ towards Redmond.
11*43+456^2
do the cosmonavts need to show their passports when crossing to the Russian section?
I was driving down to Newcastle from Edinburgh last week (15th) wearing my usual dark glasses and there was low cloud which meant I could see the sun's disc without it blinding me. There, right in the centre, a little above the mid point, was a huge spot. I told my wife to look at it too as I thought it was interesting to see a sunspot so clearly without any visual aids other than dark glasses and some cloud. Man, that thing is big......
"I have the attention span of a strobe lit goldfish, please get to the point quickly!"
I think you have SUN confused with SCO... Oh wait, that was a legal storm... ignore me.
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Didn't Intelsat just recently lose a satellite? Like, just the other day? I saw some slashdot'ers speculating on various causes (metal whiskers were my favourite) but perhaps sunspot activity had something to do with it?
Admittedly, they lost it on the 14th, so perhaps this is a tenuous grasp at best.
Intelsat Loses Another Satellite
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damn that falling water and cloudy sky. every damn chance i've had to see the Aurora has been foiled. eithe rbecause i didn't know about it in time or because it's so cloudy. damn this rain.
grey wolf
LET FORTRAN DIE!
Gravity Probe B (previously discussed on Slashdot here and here.) was also affected according to their latest bulletin.