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Space Weather Warning
SallyMac writes "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a Space Weather Warning. On Friday, May 13th, NOAA detected a 'geomagnetic storm of extreme proportions'. From the article: 'This event registered a 9 on the K-Index, which measures the maximum deviation of the Earth's magnetic field in a given three-hour period...The scale ranges from 0 to 9, with 9 being the highest. This was a significant event.' See the article on the NOAA site for more information." Spaceweather.com has details on the resulting auroras.
Shit, man. If they knew about the flare on Friday, how come somebody didn't say something, oh, Saturday or something?
Because the same people that report to Bush about planes in the DC air space are responsible for reporting these events to the American People...
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Two days ago something happened that could have caused some major problems. It didn't. Oh and be sure to catch the auroras yesterday. They sure were great. Thanks for the heads up ;)
Unfortunately the article summary is wrong. I wish I had MOD points because unfortunately you are already +5 funny (should be moronic) and at the top of the page. I guess all I can do is call you an idiot and really say that the joke is truly on you. Since I actually took the time to RTFAs with the first one starting out rather correctly:
NOAA ISSUES SPACE WEATHER WARNING
Forecasters at the NOAA Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo., observed a geomagnetic storm on Sunday, May 15
From the second article:
What caused the display? A coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetic field. Impact time: May 15th at 0230 UT.
Thought I'd like to point that out. In the printed world things typically take a day or so to at least come out.
On a side note the article summary is misleading and so full of hype that it oozes to be on the 11 o'clock news. Come on, can't you guys post better summaries, I mean geez, at least get the freakin date right or something!
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