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Large Solar Flare To Glance Off Earth
JoeRobe writes "According to spaceweather.com, a major X5 solar flare is on its way to deliver a glancing blow to the Earth's magnetic field. This is the second x-class flare to be released by the same sunspot in the past few days, the first being an X1. In both cases, the sunspot (spot 1429) was not directly facing Earth, but it is still active, and poses a threat for a large, Earth-directed flare in the next few days."
All our technologies are in the hand of a solar flare!!
"It's" == "it is" or "it has". No exceptions.
The possessive form of "it" is "its".
Maybe it's because English is my 3rd language but this is one of my pet peeves.
Yeah?
Well you just used "==" the wrong way.
So we may finally get some actual X-Men out of this???
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Is that as in "Holy Shit, that solar flare, it's headed right for us!" Because if I'm gonna fry, I don't think I want to spend my last few minutes on Earth surrounded by grammar Nazis.
John
Obviously this is Samsung's initial attempt to destroy the iPad3
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someone on the sun is shooting at us!
-I'm just sayin'
All the cost and possible misery to one side, a big cosmic event like this could do a lot of good. It might just reinvigorate general public's interest in the cosmos. Just seems a bit too quiet these days.
Grammar Nazis tend to be thin-skinned, so you'll live long enough to see them fry first. Happy thoughts!
So it's like getting grazed by 12 Guage Buck Shot
-- By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
(concerned)
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
It's on its way.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
possible scenario:
1- Apple applies for a patent regarding magnetic interference.
2- USPTO grants patent to apple
3- Solar flare
4- Apple suing the sun in Germany!
5- Court prohibits the sun from sending magnetic flares to Germany
mmmmm.....
What if my pet peeve is prescriptive grammarians?
Is it paranoid to think that these first two might be a couple of ranging shots?
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
Could a solar flare affect an asteroid's orbit, like 2012 da14 which they swear will miss us.
I wonder if there are any astronauts in the ISS... to be irradiated by cosmic radiation.
1. Don't be too concerned. This is more an issue for astronauts (minor inconvenience) and satellites (possible software outages), unless you live at high latitudes, in which case auroras are cool!
2. X5 is strong but not catastrophic -- this might affect shortwave reception but it's not going to take down the power grid.
A scientific story with no editorializing in TFS and links to the source so I don't have to click through blogspam?
What site am I on?
My pet peeve is when people confuse equality and equivalence.
-1 overrated isn't the same thing as "I disagree".
Not according to Chaucer.
He tells me the correct word is "hit" which he uses throughout his works, and I'm not about to question the word of Chaucer (one of the greatest english writers of all time).
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
Really? Please ban that IP. I don't put up with that garbage on XBL and surely won't here.
All I ever really want to know when I see something like this is, "Will there be some Auroras where I am?"
Don't worry, the apostrophe is silent.
Any sufficiently unpopular but cohesive argument is indistinguishable from trolling.
Welcome to the internet.
The moon never pulls shit like this.
from The Onion
This overly drawn-out Republican primaries anger the Sun God.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
yeah yeah yeah, I noticed it after I submitted. Should've checked before hitting submit, yada yada yada...
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Dude! I got my board and my photon sail. I'm hangin' TEN! Er, uh, X5! Gnarly dude.
Programming is their fourth language.
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
check it out here.
http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/downloads/20120307_014400_anim.tim-den.gif
AAAH!! Don't say that word!
My -1 Troll is actually a +1 funny. And my -1 flame is actually a +1 insightfull.
So when he logs off and someone else logs on to the same ISP, an innocent person will be banned from slashdot. wtf, I thought this was a tech site.
Stop being stupid...please ?
It's correct as it is.
the "major X5 solar flare" IS...etc
The flare travels at the speed of light ... so we've already been hit by it. The CME is what's going to come tomorrow morning (or tonight, depending on your time zone)
And the "spot number" as this article called it is actually NOAA Active Region #11429. I'm sick of this modulo 10000 value -- AR1429 was decades ago. (the list I'm looking at starts at AR6777, which was in August 1991)
I'll leave it for some other time to rant about the difference between 'sunspot number' (a subjective number to describe the amount of spot coverage on the sun in the visible spectrum which goes back centuries) vs. 'active region number' (a NOAA index of spots seen in x-ray)
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
It's a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) heading our way, not a flare. A CME is a result of this flare.
Sig?
Why does it seem I am the only one that is concerned about what's going to happen when one of these flares whacks the power grid in the Northeast U.S.? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859 Oh, that's right - the US Gov't is real concerned too. - http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/21jan_severespaceweather/ So here's what really concerns me - say, the entire Northeast grid goes down. There are a number of nuclear plants that have cooling pools for spent fuel rods, just like Fukushima. So what happens when - just like Fukushima - the power goes down and the pool pumps can't run for lack of electricity - Won't that be like Fukushima x (no. of nuclear plants in the Northeast)? Don't mean to be alarmist, but someone tell me where I am wrong on this?
You got the tense right: This was a tech site.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Stop being stupid...please ? It's correct as it is.
the "major X5 solar flare" IS...etc
It's been corrected; meaning the main story. The first sentence originally read, "According to spaceweather.com, a major X5 solar flare is on it's way to deliver a glancing blow to the Earth's magnetic field." That is incorrect. Dropping the apostrophe has now made it correct.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
NOAA forecast model of aurora activity and visibility
http://helios.swpc.noaa.gov/ovation/
If the little red line is south of your location, you might see something (assuming northern hemisphere). So far no love for the lower 48.
Don't worry, Etymology-Man will rescue us. Probably by pointing out that we are not really getting "fried", more like getting "microwaved".
Well you just used "==" the wrong way.
Not really. "==" means "that's how it is". "=" means "I declare it that way because I'm the God of grammar".
He said in an article about solar flares.
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"It's" == "it is" or "it has". No exceptions.
The possessive form of "it" is "its".
Maybe it's because English is my 3rd language but this is one of my pet peeves.
Yeah?
Well you just used "==" the wrong way.
No, he's just using C++ and an user-defined operator==.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
ahhhh my bad :)
I'm sorry for the children who have to grow up listening to language like this from their parents... poor kids.
Does this mean Aurorae? Is there any way to predict when/where Aurorae would be visible? I live in NYC and we dont get many changes to see northern lights.
FTFY
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
Where the event dividing the past from the present is the arrival of cuntwipes who don't know what a dynamic IP address is?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
No, you can't create a user defined operator== with both arguments being primitive types.
Better to have some grammar Nazis than being surrounded by sun's gamma Nazis ...
Right, because in the 600+ years since his death, English has remained completely unchanged.
About the same time people started thinking all IPs are dynamic.
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I really enjoyed the northern lights here in Canada last night, watched them from the comfort of my backyard hot-tub. I've certainly seen them before, but I don't think I've ever seen them from inside the city before, usually the light polution overpowers them, these were quite vivid!
why are you still here?
leave. no one likes you.
Really? Did you take a poll Anonymous Coward? Please share the results. (Oh and why are you posting AC instead of using your real ID?)
My AC stalker: " I personally agree with your posts most of the time, but that won't keep me from modding you troll"
Where would the apostrophe go in his? Hi's? That doesn't make sense. To make sense, "his" would actually be "hes". It's not.
ps. I know the apostrophe rules for it. Its rules depend on its situation, and if it's not been used correctly, it's annoying. However, using "his" as an example of how coherent it's, is counterproductive IMO, since the way "he" becomes "his" is non-intuitive.
There are also places where it's unwise to replace "it is" with "it's", as in my previous sentence.
Very clever.
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The Aurora is darned difficult to see with full Moon in the sky.
Sky, meet Chicken Little.
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It's...
And I have to scroll down 3/4 the way to find actual, intellectual, on-topic discussion.
Thank you, nani popoki, for getting the ball rolling.
I don't know if they still do IP bans, but I know they did them in 2004. That year, when I got a new ISP, I got a banned IP address. I sent them an email about it and was basically told to pound sand. The ban was temporary. I couldn't tell you for how long, because I didn't bother coming back for a few months after their email.
How big/powerful would a solar flare have to be before it became a concern for humans? I mean above not being able to watch America's Next Top [contest-name]tard.
-- I ignore anonymous replies to my comments and postings.
Talking to yourself again, eh?
Excuse me, wtf r u doin?
We've had *two* solar flares glancing off the Earth?
Hello?? Two shots across the bow and no one here recognising the obvious?
Dude, the Sun is shooting warning shots at us!
We better stop in our orbit now, open up hailing frequencies and listen to their demands.
After all, they may be far off, but their station is a hell of a lot bigger than a small moon. We can't match that kind of firepower!
Really? Did you take a poll Anonymous Coward?
Not the same AC, but... yes, actually. It's called your karma / moderation score.
Look, as I've said before, I support your views. But the way you present them... you are doing more harm than good. Learn how to not be a troll, please. It pained me whenever I had to downmod you, but your posts did more harm than good for whatever view you were trying to push.
I'm sure that's what the researchers told the reporter... After the actual details, then the analogies about cars, blankets, and magic faeries all failed, the snow globe analogy finally stuck.
...that Global warming is a hoax!
He's coming right at us! *smash*
http://www.hark.com/clips/sspyztkdpx-hes-coming-right-at-us
Wish I could find a video clip for this (Airplane)
Energy output will go up by 50 percent, so scrounge up 50 bucks and convert your Multi-Use Labor Element... g-d I'm old.