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Coronal Mass Ejection Hits Earth
astroengine writes "On Tuesday, the Earth was hit by a coronal mass ejection (CME), triggering a 'moderate' geomagnetic storm, igniting aurorae at high latitudes. The CME in question was launched from the sun early on Sunday and space weather scientists predicted its arrival on Aug. 3 — the vast magnetic bubble of solar plasma arrived on schedule."
Damn it, we need to shoot back. Don't let the Sun see us flinch, make sure that we retaliate in kind!
-- I really need to bleed off some of this
I was wondering why my RealDoll with the motorized enhancements seemed extra frisky this morning.
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Trolling is a art,
Galactic porn. Very awesome. Earth was left glowing and satisfied.
There's a spot in User Info for World of Warcraft account names? Really?
where Dr. Crusher was commanding the Enterprise. She used Dr. Raega's (Farengi scientist) metaphasic shield to enter a star's corona with the Borg in persuit, and then fired the phasers at the star just below the Borg ship.
Moral of the story? Sucks get caught in a CME.
"Be prepared, son. That's my motto. Be prepared." --Joe Hallenbeck
Monitor the results.
I am not interested in articles about life extension advancements.
The sun just lost a contact.
This post may or may not contain cancer causing materials.
However, the bad news is that satellites might go if a bigger storm comes along.
Nothing but a follow up story about the relatively insignificant portion of a story that really should have been about the hardware recording it and not the event itself? http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/08/02/2028228
Free Pie! The Pie is Also Evil!
...mass ejection of corona like this, it was spring break in Cancun.
"Give someone a program, frustrate them for a day... Teach someone to program, frustrate them for a lifetime."
Could something like this have the same effect on electronics as an EMP?
Imagine the chaos if all the microprocessors on the planet burned out at once. Or just in one hemisphere.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Didn't any of you watch 2012?! We're doomed! Neutrinos! Just wait. This is only the beginning.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
SPACE WEATHER!!!
I think we can time travel off of this but have no to little control of how far.
the vast magnetic bubble of solar plasma arrived on schedule
I wish my post did the same :*(
In other word, does I have better chances to spot an northern light tonight? or tomorrow? or this weekend?
n/t
How about the highlander II one?
It was stormy here last night. The only lights in the sky were lightning.
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The additional bit of good news (if you're a VHF amateur radio operator, or FM or TV broadcast DXer) is that there should be interesting propagation of VHF radio signals refracting off of the aurora, perhaps as far as 2000 km. The bad news is that the same ionization that refracts the VHF signals attenuates HF signals, so if you're an HF amateur radio operator or short-wave listener, the paths over the poles will be closed for a few days.
I guess the additional bad news if you're a VHF broadcaster (FM or over-the-air TV) is that you can expect a lot of calls from the public complaining about poor reception, as signals from far away interfere with yours. :-/
I watched Flash Gordon last night and obviously missed all the excitement, thinking the BluRay had been redone REALLY well.
Anything you say will be held against you.
We did travel but it was to the future at a rate of 1x normal
http://xkcd.com/209/
We lost a pair of SNE2000 SDSL ethernet extenders (bridges that use a plain dry copper twisted pair, in our case for several thousand feet between two buildings) when the geomagnetic storm first hit. The devices at both ends failed (DSP chip burnout) exactly simultaneously.
the sun farted...?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW9uEwtWUs0
I'd like to know how low in latitude the Auroras reached - I'm around 44degrees north, and after seeing them once before, I'd travel quite a distance to view them, as long as I can make it to work tomorrow...
Damned weather systems are making things difficult, though.
Also, I'm interested in how high the Kp index needs to be for Auroras to be highly visible at my latitude. I went to school in Potsdam, NY, and was lucky enough to see a spectacular display right overhead one late fall night during finals week... spectacular enough for me to lose even more sleep while crunching for a final exam.
I had 5 of 25 machines crash last night. Could this be related? (Yes, I am serious...)
Pray for peace, prepare for war!
Wish this would have been posted BEFORE the aurora. I guess it wasnt visible in north America but who knew?
... your was hit by a "coronal" mass ejection (CME) from my wang. Resulting in temporary blindness and some stinging. Scientists predict I'll be back at full capacity by this evening.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW9uEwtWUs0
I've posted it under nickname, but seems to be no one can see it. As far as under nickname there is score 0.
It's better to stay anonymous coward in order to get noticed, than log in into slasdot. Is it supposed to work this way ?
Which is great, the average English class travels at 0.2s/s
But... the future refused to change.
Sometimes I like to pretend my chair is a time machine. I'll spin around and around and say, "I'm traveling to the future!" And you know what, it usually works!
He who smelt it, dealt it.
Signed,
Sol
From watching TV, you would think that time travel is almost always guaranteed take you to one of the iconic eras of the 20th century
The sending of this message pretty much inconveniences everyone involved.
We will not be intimidated!
Took this photo of the aurora last night in the short window of full darkness before the moon came up.
There will be another shooting opportunity tonight, if the geomagnetic storm continues.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
...and we still missed the "money shot".
i dont know how you can accomplish a quick 'not blinking', but, do it fast ! because, we should not blink.
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See what I did there?
Employee Of the Month - Cyberdyne Systems Corporation - September 1997
There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Ka-Boom.
-Marvin.
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
The Solar Storm of 1859 was one of the largest known in history and just glanced the modern Electronic Age. The significant electronic device in use at the time was the 15-year old telegraph. Lesser storms since then have brought down power grids.
The novel One Second After is one of those post-apocalyptic stories of a severe EMP attack. The cause, whether military or cosmic, is not dwelled on. Its just that all electric power, computers, and memories halt in an instant. In real life something in basement might survive. But the author killed off almost all technology for dramatic purposes. This includes all vehicles built after 1980 which have computing inside them. It is set in a rural town several days walk from a major city. The first result is the utter silence - no way to send or receive news until some museum vacuum tube ham radios are revived. Then comes the expected mayhem - people whose lives depending on machinery or medicine all die. There are fierce fights for dwindling resources. Eventually life would return to early 1800s self-independent farming. But that could only support about a tenth of the current population.
I'm in Fairbanks
We won't see night before the end of August
Auroras just aren't the same in daylight
Can we reschedule this to reoccur around the end of September?
Then we get total darkness early enough to be of use and the temperatures aren't too cold to go outside
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself." Mark Twain
So, how much additional mass did the earth obtain? I'm guessing that most of it was hydrogen, but it would be cool to get even a ball park figure.
A few liters (at STP), a few moles, a kilogram, immeasurably small, or much more? Somebody who is more familiar with the field has to have made an estimate. Was it all energy or was mass actually transferred?
And I just raked the lawn the day before.
JADBP
There could be proposed a theory of anthropogenic warming of space all caused by us that will arise and become "settled science" or not.
I agree, we don't have atlantis to hide under.
If it rhymes it must be true.
Holy Grid! After the magnetic storm everything went exactly as expected! I am awed! This must be news worthy of Slashdot!