Coronal Mass Ejection Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Large Solar Storm Headed For Earth!

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Started 1 year ago by Lakee911
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Rockmastermike
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10sun wrote >>
There were some light flashes in the sky a minute ago... about 2:48am EST.
No visible aircraft. Vic Village area.
Edit:
Again 2:55am EST.
North facing window.
Looks like lightning from about 50 miles away according to radar.
That would explain the lack of thunder.

An aurora would not be flashy. Lightning!

Also, BTW:

At 1825 UT on August 7th, Earth-orbiting satellites detected a long-duration M1-class solar flare. The source of the blast was sunspot 1093. First-look data confirm that the blast produced a CME, but the cloud is not heading directly toward Earth. A glancing blow to our magnetic field on August 9th or 10th might produce auroras, but this does not appear to herald a major space weather event at Earth.

This is many times larger than the event last week. Really these things are not that uncommon. I am still not sure why that particular CME got any media attention.

(note that graph is on a log scale. M-1 = 10 times C-1)

Posted 1 year ago #
Lakee911
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Thu, Aug 26 12:50 PM
Melbourne, Aug 26 (ANI): Astronomers are predicting that a massive solar storm, much bigger in potential than the one that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month, is to strike our planet in 2012 with a force of 100 million hydrogen bombs.

Several US media outlets have reported that NASA was warning the massive flare this month was just a precursor to a massive solar storm building that had the potential to wipe out the entire planet's power grid.

Despite its rebuttal, NASA's been watching out for this storm since 2006 and reports from the US this week claim the storms could hit on that most Hollywood of disaster dates - 2012.

Read More: http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20100826/981/tsc-massive-solar-storm-to-hit-earth-in_1.html

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Rockmastermike
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Lakee911 wrote >>
Thu, Aug 26 12:50 PM
Melbourne, Aug 26 (ANI): Astronomers are predicting that a massive solar storm, much bigger in potential than the one that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month, is to strike our planet in 2012 with a force of 100 million hydrogen bombs.

No real astronomer is predicting major catastrophe in 2012.

This article was 20 lbs of horseshit in a 5 lb sack+

for actual science, please refer to the NOAA space weather prediction center:

May 29, 2009: An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle. Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots.

"If our prediction is correct, Solar Cycle 24 will have a peak sunspot number of 90, the lowest of any cycle since 1928 when Solar Cycle 16 peaked at 78," says panel chairman Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/29may_noaaprediction/

Yes, bad solar storms are possible but actually not as likely this solar cycle as they were in previous cycles.

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alexs
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Does 100 million hydrogen bombs sound a little bit like Scientology?

Posted 1 year ago #
hugh59
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That article was total chametz!

Of course, what would happen if 100 million 5 pound bags of horse pooey, stuffed with 20 pounds each, were to hit the Earth's atmosphere?

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hugh59 wrote >>
That article was total chametz!
Of course, what would happen if 100 million 5 pound bags of horse pooey, stuffed with 20 pounds each, were to hit the Earth's atmosphere?

the end times... Dogs and cats living together... real 'wrath of god' type shit.

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Rockmastermike
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alexs wrote >>
Does 100 million hydrogen bombs sound a little bit like Scientology?

OH NOES!!!

Posted 1 year ago #
hugh59
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Could be worse. Could be raining.

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Rockmastermike
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Figured those of you who were following this might want to know:

Largest X-ray flare (X2 size) since 2006 happened a few days ago. The x-ray flare was reportedly strong enough to disrupt shortwave communication in China briefly, but that's not saying that much. As some of you know shortwave propagation is sensitive to ionization conditions in the atmosphere, and hard X-rays ionize pretty deeply into the atmosphere.

A Large CME spawned from the flare is due to hit sometime tonight. Since it's probably going to be night for us, it will probably hit the Asian side of the planet. A Geomagnetic storm is possible as it hits, but it's probably not going to do much beyond making some interesting Auroras.

Some info here: http://www.spaceweather.com/ (always an interesting website)

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Rockmastermike
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yep. hit about 8pm est.

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hugh59
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Hey, if the shit really hits the fan (or the atmosphere) or protons...whatever, and it knocks out everything with a microprocessor in it, I will have one of the ONLY cars in Columbus that still runs.

I would have posted a photo of my bright green, 1974 VW Super Beetle convertible, but I can't do that from work.

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Only got up to a K5 geomagnetic storm last night. No auroras for you!

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beside just the direct cooking, soon you'll have another reason to be worried about CME when you're in an airplane :)

Approved Senate bill "speeds up the transition from an air traffic control system based on World War II-era radar technology to GPS technology."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=133848736

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groundrules wrote >>
beside just the direct cooking, soon you'll have another reason to be worried about CME when you're in an airplane :)
Approved Senate bill "speeds up the transition from an air traffic control system based on World War II-era radar technology to GPS technology."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=133848736

A flare that would take out the GPS sats would cause so many other problems that air traffic control would be the least of my worries.

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