Sun Unleashes Most Powerful Flare Since 2006

astroengine writes "Early Tuesday morning, the Sun unleashed a powerful X-class flare. The X7 flare is the most energetic explosion to come from the Sun since December 2006. Although the flare was directed away from the Earth, a minor proton storm was detected and some radio communications have been disrupted due to higher-than-normal rates of ionization in the Earth's ionosphere. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the whole event, imaging the flaring site and multi-million degree post-flare plasma."

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Re:We need to do more preparations

[Anonymous Coward]

That is why there are plants, most of them hydro, that exist for these reasons. http://wiki.colby.edu/display/es398b/History+of+Harris is one reference to this ability. Harris station comes online, feeding the new england grid, allowing the nukes and oil burners to come back online.

As a side note, the plants don't have to go down. They DO have to disconnect from those hundred mile long antennas they have attached to their sub stations.

I've got more to say, but posting without an account, I doubt I'll be modded high enough to make it matter.

Re:yeah but

[baegucb]

Eventually. But first Oracle will call back 3 times, confirming your address and phone number. That way they get to reset the clock on response time, and give to their execs a report saying they meet response times per SLAs.