NASA Warns of Magnetic Storm After Huge Solar Flare

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NASA Warns of Magnetic Storm After Huge Solar Flare

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @02:16AM from the nothing-wrong-with-a-little-glow-ball-warming dept.

coondoggie writes "NASA today said a strong-to-severe geomagnetic storm is in progress following a massive solar flare and coronal mass ejection (CME). CMEs are a solar phenomenon that can send solar particles into space and affect electronic systems in satellites and on Earth. Simulations indicate that solar wind plasma has penetrated close to geosynchronous orbit starting at 9am today. Geosynchronous satellites could therefore be directly exposed to solar wind plasma and magnetic fields. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras after nightfall, NASA stated."

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A bit late to the party? by Jedi+Holocron · 2011-09-27 02:21 · Score: 5, Informative

Spaceweather.com is reporting this as subsiding....

SUBSIDING STORM: A severe geomagnetic storm (Kp=7-8) that began yesterday when a CME hit Earth's magnetic field is subsiding. At the peak of the disturbance, auroras were sighted around both poles and in more than five US states including Michigan, New York, South Dakota, Maine, and Minnesota:
1. Re:A bit late to the party? by Iskender · 2011-09-27 02:54 · Score: 1
  
  While Slashdot is late to the party here Spaceweather does say that people near the poles should still keep an eye out.
  So the story essentially becomes: "If you're in Alaska, Northern Europe or somewhere similar there is a greater than usual chance of auroras today."
  In the southern hemisphere only Antarctica is south enough and the people there probably don't need outside help in spotting auroras. =)
2. Re:A bit late to the party? by xmorg · 2011-09-27 04:09 · Score: 1
  
  THE END IS NEAR!!! bring out your dead!!!
3. Re:A bit late to the party? by element-o.p. · 2011-09-27 04:19 · Score: 1
  
  Make that six states, then. I saw the aurora last night, just before midnight, in Alaska.
  
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4. Re:A bit late to the party? by sgt+scrub · 2011-09-27 05:02 · Score: 1
  
  Oh please. There is no way a geometric storm could eff
  
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5. Re:A bit late to the party? by Jedi+Holocron · 2011-09-27 05:50 · Score: 1
  
  I think that was only the list of locations that were reporting photos to Spaceweather.com....at the time of the post.
6. Re:A bit late to the party? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 08:23 · Score: 0
  
  Note that they said "over 5 states", and listed the 5 where seeing the aurora might be considered newsworthy. It's rather common that the aurora is visible in some part of Alaska, if not the more densely inhabited parts.
7. Re:A bit late to the party? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 13:14 · Score: 0
  
  I'd like to see the Aurora where I am, but we have this low pressure front that's derping about like a very low powered and retarded version of a hurricane over the Great Lakes. Not space weather, but not considered the usual weather neither.
8. Re:A bit late to the party? by xmorg · 2011-10-02 10:31 · Score: 1
  
  see? poor guy died in the middle of his comment. why am i still alive?
9. Re:A bit late to the party? by mug+funky · 2011-10-02 10:50 · Score: 1
  
  you lived long enough to hit the "submit" button for xmorg.
Considering /.'s lead time.... by Gideon+Wells · 2011-09-27 02:22 · Score: 1, Informative

Considering /.'s lead time this warning would have been helpful last week.
I jest, I jest, this sounds cool. I hope I can see some of the show in the North East.

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1. Re:Considering /.'s lead time.... by Sockatume · 2011-09-27 02:33 · Score: 2
  
  Good thing they discovered superluminal neutrinos last week because you'll need a time machine.
  
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2. Re:Considering /.'s lead time.... by hcs_$reboot · 2011-09-27 02:38 · Score: 1
  
  Oh you were lucky enough to actually find out from TFA when the storm will impact Earth..
  
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3. Re:Considering /.'s lead time.... by Rich0 · 2011-09-27 05:22 · Score: 1
  
  Well, that is part of my question around superluminal neutrinos. If they really worked that way, then couldn't you potentially detect a supernova weeks or months before it becomes visible via light/radio? The speed difference is small, but when the travel time is measured in decades to centuries a tiny percentage adds up.
4. Re:Considering /.'s lead time.... by rgbatduke · 2011-09-27 06:34 · Score: 1
  
  Except that they don't, in fact, observe neutrinos before supernovae. They arrive right when they "should", at or slightly after the light arrives. Bear in mind that \Delta t is 6x10^{-8} seconds over 500 miles. A light year is roughly 6 x 10^12 miles, so a supernova from hundreds to millions of LY away would produce neutrinos that arrive anywhere from hours to days or months before the light. And they don't, or at least no one has yet observed that they do. That is, it isn't really a tiny percentage, not tiny as in at all difficult to resolve. 60 nanoseconds is hundreds of CPU clock cycles -- your computer could resolve the timing to a couple of significant figures and I'm guessing state of the art clocks and transducers can do at least orders of magnitude better.
  
  It's one of several reasons that people are skeptical about the superluminal result, one of several things that will ultimately have to be explained if the superluminal result is eventually validated.
  
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5. Re:Considering /.'s lead time.... by Rich0 · 2011-09-27 07:46 · Score: 1
  
  Yup, that was basically what I was getting at...
6. Re:Considering /.'s lead time.... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 20:01 · Score: 0
  
  Except that they don't, in fact, observe neutrinos before supernovae. They arrive right when they "should", at or slightly after the light arrives.
  Assuming that our theory about when they were generated in relation to the light is correct. A theory which was validated by watching the timings of the neutrinos vs. light. If the neutrinos don't actually emit until much later in the process, those measurements would actually supply proof of FTL neutrinos.
  It's a chicken-and-egg game to rely on supernova as a yardstick for the issue, since we don't really know anything firsthand about the supernova event itself.
  So this will either end up being:
  a) shown to be a mistake, measurement error, etc. during the earth-based experiment
  b) some new form of particle/neutrino/energy which isn't the same as what we observe in supernova
  c) a mistake, error, etc. in our theory about how supernova operate.
7. Re:Considering /.'s lead time.... by buchner.johannes · 2011-09-27 20:42 · Score: 1
  
  Except that they don't, in fact, observe neutrinos before supernovae. They arrive right when they "should", at or slightly after the light arrives. Bear in mind that \Delta t is 6x10^{-8} seconds over 500 miles. A light year is roughly 6 x 10^12 miles, so a supernova from hundreds to millions of LY away would produce neutrinos that arrive anywhere from hours to days or months before the light. And they don't, or at least no one has yet observed that they do. That is, it isn't really a tiny percentage, not tiny as in at all difficult to resolve. 60 nanoseconds is hundreds of CPU clock cycles -- your computer could resolve the timing to a couple of significant figures and I'm guessing state of the art clocks and transducers can do at least orders of magnitude better.
  It's one of several reasons that people are skeptical about the superluminal result, one of several things that will ultimately have to be explained if the superluminal result is eventually validated.
  The only supernova where neutrinos could be assigned to was 1987A, and the number counts (detailed on Wikipedia) were too low to state anything significant. However, there was a increase in neutrino counts 3 hours before the light arrived.
  You also have to keep in mind that process producing the neutrinos in a SN could just be earlier. Yes, neutrino speed should be verified.
  
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What is the point in reporting this? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 02:35 · Score: 2, Insightful

The storm had already passed by the time this article was posted.
This is something that should have been posted on Sunday.
Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by xploraiswakco · 2011-09-27 02:36 · Score: 0

Reading the article, 9am appears to be US Eastern time, and roughly 1300 UTC. As a New Zealander I do find it annoying when people fail to identify the timezone.
1. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by Known+Nutter · 2011-09-27 02:47 · Score: 1
  
  er...
  
  A CME that erupted from NOAA Active Region 1302 on Saturday September 24 in conjunction with an M7 strength solar flare, arrived this morning at 1237 UT (8:37am Eastern Time)
  
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2. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by Rogerborg · 2011-09-27 02:49 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  9am appears to be US Eastern time, and roughly 1300 UTC. As a New Zealander I [have deluded myself that my opinion matters]
  That's 9am Democracy Time, you piece of commie Eurotrash, and it's only by the grace of God and His Instrument Patton that you're not on Berlin time.
  
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3. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 02:52 · Score: 0
  
  Would people like you just STFU? I don't care if it's meant to be funny in some fashion. It's just annoying.
4. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by mrxak · 2011-09-27 02:53 · Score: 1
  
  This is slashdot, you insensitive clod, we aren't supposed to just RTFS, we RTFA!
  
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5. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by xploraiswakco · 2011-09-27 02:54 · Score: 2
  
  Wow, someone sounds like a typical american, can't tell one side of the world from the other (New Zealand is about as far from Europe as you can get, i.e. opposite side of the planet).
6. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by xploraiswakco · 2011-09-27 02:56 · Score: 1
  
  The article was fine, /. is somewhat more international.
7. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 02:56 · Score: 0
  
  I'm having a hard time to decide what is funniest: the "Democracy Time" TZ, or the fact that New Zealand is not exactly a European country :)
8. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by Ogive17 · 2011-09-27 02:57 · Score: 1
  
  And you sound like someone who has no sense of humor. It was obviously a joke.
  
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9. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by xploraiswakco · 2011-09-27 02:58 · Score: 0
  
  That still doesn't identify what timezone the source is, and if you RTFA NASA did identify the timezone, coondiggie failed properly repeat that detail.
10. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by Daetrin · 2011-09-27 02:59 · Score: 1
  
  As a New Zealander I do find it annoying when people fail to identify the timezone.
  On a US site? Or does it just bother you that your country doesn't have a site like this?
  As a west coast USian, i do find it annoying when people fail to identify the timezone.
  
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11. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by gorzek · 2011-09-27 03:00 · Score: 1
  
  US Eastern time is the only time zone that matters.
  
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12. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by xploraiswakco · 2011-09-27 03:04 · Score: 1
  
  True, but RTFS is supposed to help us decide if we want to RTFA, which kinda fails when we find ourselves feeling like we have to when we don't want to.
13. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by xploraiswakco · 2011-09-27 03:06 · Score: 1
  
  And mine wasn't? I guess we all lack a sense of humour.
14. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 03:20 · Score: 0
  
  one was funny. the other was quite unfunny, you piece of new zealand commie trash!!!
15. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by tag · 2011-09-27 03:22 · Score: 1
  
  You should both assume that times given are local for the source. This being NASA and all...
  Would that be Kennedy Space Center (ET), Johnson Space Center (CT), White Sands (MT), JPL (PT) or some other NASA office in another time zone?
16. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 03:53 · Score: 0
  
  This is a US site? A good portion of the readership is not from the US, I've never seen a policy anywhere on the site stating it was US only. It's US-centric, of course, but the users are what make the "nationality" of a site and clearly /.'s users come from all corners of the Earth. It's worth noting that this works both ways - when there's a story about research from Manchester university or whatever in the UK a lot of American users get annoyed that the country isn't properly identified and leads to confusion, there's really no excuse for such a lax approach to key details on a site with a strong technical/scientific/mathematical leaning regardless of where the domain was registered.
17. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 04:19 · Score: 0
  
  Would that be Kennedy Space Center (ET), Johnson Space Center (CT), White Sands (MT), JPL (PT) or some other NASA office in another time zone?
  Another time zone? What are you talking about? You already listed all 4 of them. :)
18. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by element-o.p. · 2011-09-27 04:21 · Score: 1
  
  Eurotrash? I know the post was (supposed to be) in jest, but you do realize that New Zealand is nowhere near Europe, right?
  
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19. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by element-o.p. · 2011-09-27 04:22 · Score: 1
  
  It was funnier than the post you were responding to, but perhaps I lack a sense of humor as well :)
  
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20. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 09:42 · Score: 0
  
  But New Zealand is right next to Austria which is in Europe right?
21. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? by Thing+1 · 2011-09-27 15:44 · Score: 1
  
  Mostly we just RTFC.
  
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Made for good photography! by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 02:49 · Score: 5, Interesting

I got this shot of an aurora over Karlstad, Sweden last night http://i.imgur.com/fnbS4.jpg
1. Re:Made for good photography! by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 04:03 · Score: 0
  
  Very nice looking. I'm jealous!
2. Re:Made for good photography! by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 04:54 · Score: 0
  
  Wow! Thanks for sharing.
3. Re:Made for good photography! by Teun · 2011-09-27 04:56 · Score: 1
  
  Nice!
  
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4. Re:Made for good photography! by ndap · 2011-09-27 05:27 · Score: 1
  
  First time I've seen Karlstad mentioned on Slashdot :) Was it taken on Kronoparken?
5. Re:Made for good photography! by 6Yankee · 2011-09-27 07:37 · Score: 1
  
  Meanwhile, here in Oulu it was 8/8 cloud cover and lashing it down...
6. Re:Made for good photography! by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 11:09 · Score: 0
  
  No, I am a student at Karlstad University, this was taken right outside of the Campus housing complex. I managed to capture some lights on the horizon tonight as well.
  http://i.imgur.com/dD8bB.jpg
7. Re:Made for good photography! by Thing+1 · 2011-09-27 15:41 · Score: 1
  
  Thanks for sharing this as well. Looks like a long exposure, and the people stayed fairly still! The target is a good touch, it is crisp. Please post more if you have them.
  
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UTC motherfucker! Do you speak it?! by RenHoek · 2011-09-27 02:58 · Score: 0

I always love international websites posting things like "9 a.m.", because we only have 24+ timezones you know..
Say "a.m." again. Say "a.m." again. I dare you. I double-dare you, motherfucker. Say "a.m." one more goddamn time.
1. Re:UTC motherfucker! Do you speak it?! by Killjoy_NL · 2011-09-27 03:05 · Score: 1
  
  A.M. !
  
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2. Re:UTC motherfucker! Do you speak it?! by daid303 · 2011-09-27 03:05 · Score: 1
  
  Make that "we have only 1852 timezones you know..."
  daid@DavidUbuntu:~$ find /usr/share/zoneinfo/ | wc -l
  1852
3. Re:UTC motherfucker! Do you speak it?! by lgarner · 2011-09-27 03:12 · Score: 1
  
  Nothing wrong with AM & PM, and it's unrelated to UTC. But, knowing the timezone would help, considering that the summary says it "has penetrated close to geosynchronous orbit starting at 9am today", while it's 8:10am here now. Must be those damn neutrinos again.
4. Re:UTC motherfucker! Do you speak it?! by camperdave · 2011-09-27 03:31 · Score: 1
  
  Come now! Time zones have been updated several times since 1852. I mean, it's fine and dandy to commemorate when time signals were first telegraphed from Greenwich Royal Observatory, but for the most part cities were still on local solar time in 1852.
  
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5. Re:UTC motherfucker! Do you speak it?! by BJ_Covert_Action · 2011-09-27 03:40 · Score: 1
  
  Well I don't know how or why you got modded flaimebait. That was pretty much my response, "9 AM? Where? How does that tell me anything?"
  
  And yet, some moderator who has apparently never seen Pulp Fiction is too busy on his holy crusade for ambiguous units to figure out you were making a joke. Ah well, I giggled.
  
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6. Re:UTC motherfucker! Do you speak it?! by raluxs · 2011-09-27 03:40 · Score: 1
  
  Be thankful that he is not posting in swedish. No crees?
7. Re:UTC motherfucker! Do you speak it?! by brainboyz · 2011-09-27 03:43 · Score: 1
  
  Because something coming from an administration of the US government on a very US-centric website won't be in one of about 4 time zones. Something coming from CERN or EU in general is in about 5 time zones. If the event is important enough, it's fairly easy to find out which of those time zones it applies to.
8. Re:UTC motherfucker! Do you speak it?! by foog · 2011-09-27 04:52 · Score: 1
  
  Try chewing on: "Sunrise is at about 7 A.M. in autumn"
9. Re:UTC motherfucker! Do you speak it?! by lahvak · 2011-09-27 04:54 · Score: 1
  
  From the reactions of other posters, it seems that the submitter not only failed to specify which "9 a.m." he is talking about, he also didn't properly specify which "today" he is talking about.
  
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10. Re:UTC motherfucker! Do you speak it?! by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 05:23 · Score: 0
  
  Why its 9 All Morning. Well, 9 At Most. Anything but that crazy Latin "Ante Meridiem" which apparently means "before noon". Yes the website hits 24 time zones. Yes the former webmasters knew and understood the international nature of the site. Yes, the current webmasters are parochial yokels. They have never been more than 20 miles from home. They are doing the very best (given their nature and condition) that they can. When you complain about them, its like kicking a puppy that has two wheels for back legs, except here the problem is their "skewlin".
11. Re:UTC motherfucker! Do you speak it?! by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 06:09 · Score: 1
  
  That includes MANY duplicates, example: UTC-6 aka CST in North America is listed well over a dozen times not even counting cities listed (which would likely triple that or more).
  The tz database lists 405 here:
  https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
NASA giving excuses to my ISP by martiniturbide · 2011-09-27 03:17 · Score: 1

..thanks NASA.. my ISP appreciate the excuse to give crappy internet service.
What a crock! by mswhippingboy · 2011-09-27 03:28 · Score: 1

I just don't buy the idea that a CME can really effect my interne,,@#!@@$@#$@#NO CARRIER

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1. Re:What a crock! by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 05:04 · Score: 0
  
  LOL
This story again? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 03:52 · Score: 0

It seems like I read stories that are slight variants on "solar storm threatens modern technology" several times a year. I can't remember ever reading a story documenting that any of the storms actually caused problems. Are the predictions poor/sensationalistic or are the effects real but so small as not to make it into the news cycle?
1. Re:This story again? by PIBM · 2011-09-27 04:06 · Score: 1
  
  I remember that one (straight from wikipedia):
  On March 13, 1989 a severe geomagnetic storm caused the collapse of the Hydro-Québec power grid in a matter of seconds as equipment protection relays tripped in a cascading sequence of events.[2][9] Six million people were left without power for nine hours, with significant economic loss. The storm even caused aurorae as far south as Texas.[3] The geomagnetic storm causing this event was itself the result of a coronal mass ejection, ejected from the Sun on March 9, 1989.[10] The minimum of Dst was -589 nT.
Computer Problems by na1led · 2011-09-27 04:23 · Score: 0

Must be the reason why we have been having computer glitches all day.

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paramagnetic aviaries by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 04:55 · Score: 0

saw a bunch of ducks fly by, quacking like crazy at 9:25am.. and then saw a lot more of birds flying over south bay...
1. Re:paramagnetic aviaries by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 09:57 · Score: 0
  
  I wonder if such events actually do affect birds, whales, etc. Anyway, if you see Cheney, duck!
Just looked out the window ... by PPH · 2011-09-27 05:14 · Score: 1

... and its raining magnets.

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The SOHO That Cried Wolf by tunapez · 2011-09-27 05:18 · Score: 1

Knowledge and technology are all well and good, except when used for evil or to sell advertising, I guess...
A Solar Storm Strikes Earthâ"and Provides a Warning for the Future
New Forecast: Sun's 'Superstorms' Could Doom Satellites
Could The Sun Set Off The Next Big Natural Disaster?
PS: The sun will go supernova in the near future. Please panic accordingly. :-)

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1. Re:The SOHO That Cried Wolf by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 10:45 · Score: 0
  
  The Sol couldn't ever go supernova because it is too small. it also has things swirling around it, trapped in a web.
2. Re:The SOHO That Cried Wolf by tunapez · 2011-09-27 12:17 · Score: 1
  
  TIL the sun may already have gone supernova and that it will soon enter into a Red Giant phase.
  emphasis mine
  Please disregard my ignorance and feel free to embrace the correct end of life as we know it. Panic accordingly.
  
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EMP Magnetic Storm Ate My Homework by retroworks · 2011-09-27 05:28 · Score: 1

We don't need the news as it's happening. We just need it on a timely enough basis to form excuses based on it.

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I'm safe ... by Skapare · 2011-09-27 05:39 · Score: 1

... I unplugged my Dishnet.

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1. Re:I'm safe ... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 08:44 · Score: 0
  
  I'm safer.
  I redirected my Dishnet to aim to concentrate their harmful rays at Krypton. They've been lording their red sun over us for far too long. Now I'm free of their meddling in my affairs.
Our Sun has spoken. by Rashdot · 2011-09-27 05:47 · Score: 1

I wonder what she said.

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x-plane function n by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 10:26 · Score: 0

Account that the satellite stands closer, and the distance therefor, claiming all is relative, could be bended light...
So by approximation it would only say we swing around the sun, slower or faster, causing disruption in the already weak magnetic field, made up out of the proto-sphere, the hemisphere, the stratosphere, and the Ozone layer.. ergo O-Zone.
this could be an x which is of course the relative, of the figure of speech. Hence, x === !n+1 ^ -1 +n0.-E. =~ making O an integer. Hence spectra. Omni. and bended light. Also the sun imploded and exploded at a pace of 12 times in 8 seconds, or something, but of course when you look at the clouds, they stand still. But actually they are traveling a 600,000 f/s. Airplanes only lift a piece of up towards the heavy object the sun in the rotation, and the Cosmos is wind. Ergo, swirl, being a hole of wind underneath.
An air pocket, Atlas
If they say so... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-27 15:42 · Score: 0

I have been seeing these warnings for as long as I can remember. Never once have I been affected by them or seen anything happen from them.
Good night! by madhi19 · 2011-09-27 16:45 · Score: 1

Remember this kids while you go to sleep every day of your life you're about 8 minutes from getting fried by a massive Superflare from that big fusion engine up in the sky. Sleep well!