X-Class Solar Flare Coming Friday

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X-Class Solar Flare Coming Friday

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @02:00PM from the wear-your-shades dept.

First time accepted submitter kit_triforce writes Satellites have just detected a powerful X1.6-class solar flare. The source was active sunspot AR2158, which is directly facing Earth. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash. Ionizing radiation from the flare could cause HF radio blackouts and other communications disturbances, especially on the day-lit side of Earth. In the next few hours, when coronagraph data from SOHO and STEREO become available, we will see if a coronal mass ejection (CME) emerges from the blast site. If so, the cloud would likely be aimed directly at Earth and could reach our planet in 2 to 3 days.

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Re:Made in America by Jeremiah+Cornelius · 2014-09-10 14:11 · Score: 5, Funny

Can we hope it ends this farcical "progress" and return the planet to steam and gaslight?

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spaceweather.com by QuietLagoon · 2014-09-10 14:18 · Score: 5, Funny

Times like this, I sympathize with the sysadmin of the spaceweather.com website. I hope she/he had nothing planned for this evening.....
1. Re:spaceweather.com by Squiddie · 2014-09-10 15:06 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Their hug pillow and many plastic toys don't count as family.
2. Re:spaceweather.com by Gazzonyx · 2014-09-10 20:15 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  So... you just DDOSed your friends. You sure you're not a sysadmin yourself?
  
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Re:Just as long as it's not XK-class. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-10 15:13 · Score: 4, Funny

I think XKCD class would be even worse! Our communication equipment would fail in hilarious ways.
Re:Just as long as it's not XK-class. by MrDoh! · 2014-09-10 15:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Unless there's that lone scientist who isn't being listened to by everyone else, as he's got the evidence that the sensors are wrong, and that it's going to be XKCD class.

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Re:Wooo! by Applehu+Akbar · 2014-09-10 15:54 · Score: 2, Funny

You'll be able to chat about oxygen tanks and mobility scooters with people all over the world!
Re:Just as long as it's not XK-class. by I'm+New+Around+Here · 2014-09-10 16:05 · Score: 4, Funny

Unless there's that lone scientist who isn't being listened to by everyone else, as he's got the evidence that the sensors are wrong, and ...
he launches his only son away from the doomed planet of Krypton, to be raised by aliens on a far distant earth.

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Re:Made in America by LynnwoodRooster · 2014-09-10 16:30 · Score: 5, Funny

Based on your UID, you were around when it was steam and gaslight, right?

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Re:Too late for the flare -- the *CME* comes Frida by Tablizer · 2014-09-10 18:07 · Score: 3, Funny

it's more than just an electro-magnetic pulse ... it actually has mass associated with it.
So, to put it in layman's terms, the Sun farted at us.

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Re:which side of Earth? by mrbester · 2014-09-10 18:14 · Score: 3, Funny

The outside.

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Re:Just as long as it's not XK-class. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-11 05:06 · Score: 3, Funny

We all die from uncontrollable laughter.