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Title: Solar Storm! Post by: pxib on August 04, 2011, 04:20:49 PM Squall's a comin': (http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-solar-storm.html)
Quote Early yesterday, (Aug 3, 2011) two active regions on the Sun, sunspot 1261 and 1263 unleashed solar flares, which was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The video shows an M6 class flare from 1261 in a couple of different wavelengths. SolarstormWatch, a citizen science project through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England predicts the solar storm from the larger flare to reach Earth at 15:00 UTC on August 5, 2011, and also predict direct hit on Earth. Somewhere between 7am and 10am tomorrow morning in the states. Interestingly NOAA's space weather team (http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/index.html) thinks that since the flares are moving at different speeds they may overlap.Title: Re: Solar Storm! Post by: Hawkbit on August 04, 2011, 05:45:40 PM Total protonic reversal.
Title: Re: Solar Storm! Post by: Lantyssa on August 04, 2011, 06:33:28 PM Good bye, my friends. I hope you all do well in the coming apocalypse. May the net be restored soon.
:tinfoil: Title: Re: Solar Storm! Post by: Ard on August 05, 2011, 11:15:32 AM I'm disappointed, there weren't any zombies out this morning or anything.
Title: Re: Solar Storm! Post by: Paelos on August 05, 2011, 11:36:18 AM Lot of people talking about the end of stuff in 2011 huh?
Title: Re: Solar Storm! Post by: 01101010 on August 05, 2011, 12:29:44 PM The sky never falls...
Title: Re: Solar Storm! Post by: Yegolev on August 05, 2011, 12:30:51 PM Conference calls and VPN not interrupted. Sigh.
Title: Re: Solar Storm! Post by: 01101010 on August 05, 2011, 12:50:54 PM Conference calls and VPN not interrupted. Sigh. The VPN thing is a good thing on this side of the aisle. When the VPN goes down, that is when my phone calls increase with the vocalized tears of "OH NOES WHAT DOING!?!" Sometimes I feel my job is 90% moral phone support. Title: Re: Solar Storm! Post by: Bzalthek on August 05, 2011, 02:54:05 PM I'm sorry ma'am, there has been a solar storm which is having dire effects on the intrawebz. But there are ways that may remedy the situation. Do you have any aluminum foil in the house...?
Title: Re: Solar Storm! Post by: stu on August 09, 2011, 01:39:59 PM I wonder if it has something to do with this:
Mystery Orange Goo Creeps Along Alaskan Shorline (http://news.discovery.com/earth/mystery-orange-goo-invades-alaska-village-110809.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1) The Eskimos were the first to go. :cthulu: Title: Re: Solar Storm! Post by: Mosesandstick on August 09, 2011, 01:56:55 PM I think if you try running on it you speed up.
Title: Re: Solar Storm! Post by: Lakov_Sanite on August 09, 2011, 05:54:12 PM Quote “We have determined these are small invertebrate eggs, although we cannot tell which species,” :cthulu: indeed. |