Solar Flares coming toward Earth

[onederlnd]

Basically, a large Coronal Mass Ejection is heading straight towards the earth... what does this mean for us? It means that some time today, parts of the world may experience power outages, while most of the world will experience communication issues for a bit.

Read the following articles:

http://www.astrobiology.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=12850
http://sec.noaa.gov/

[yoshi1001]

Time to get into my solar flare shelter.

Mewtwo: You don't have a solar flare shelter, Steve.

I don't have a psychic cat, either.

[Baboon]

So that's why AOL's giving me a hard time dialing up and bringing up pages today. ;)

Who's the guy with the jumbo magnet that's causing this? ^_^

[Turbo Blastoise]

What would you even try to use for a solar flare shelter anyway? How could anything withstand 10 million degrees F of superheated solar radiation? Thank God for earth's atmosphere!

[yoshi1001]

I think you answered your own question. ;)

[Captain Obviousx1]

Man, my Science class must be stalking me...huge project involving solar weather as one of the components coming up soon for me, and I see this. You can imagine my joy. ~_~

[Joe Monkey]

Hey do think there would be more solarocks out during this time??:lol:

[Dek]

So what exactly does this solar flare mean for us? absolutely nothing. We probaly be dead by the time it comes. Kind of like that asteroid that was supposed to come down here.

[onederlnd]

notice how i said "Coronal Mass Ejection". Not literally the solar flare. The Ejection can easily knock out satellite and the like. A solar flare will, that I'm aware of, never be able to reach the earth.

[treecko_332]

yes onederlnd is right. In a million years a solar flare could never reach earth. They don't even get half way to earth. All it means is a power outage for some. It's really no big deal.

[yoshi1001]

yes onederlnd is right. In a million years a solar flare could never reach earth. They don't even get half way to earth. All it means is a power outage for some. It's really no big deal.

Tell that to New York.

[onederlnd]

Tell that to New York.

What does New York have anything to do with this?

[yoshi1001]

"All it means is a power outage for some. It's really no big deal."

[Pidgeotto Trainer]

Still convinced its a cover-up for the aliens ;) but I will save that for another day. :cool:

[onederlnd]

"All it means is a power outage for some. It's really no big deal."
You've still lost me for where New York is significant. Was that an attempt at a joke? ;)

[Orange Soda]

I think it's a reference to the HUGE FRICKEN power outage that affected the Northeast a few months ago.

[yoshi1001]

There was a blackout in New York (and much of the northeast) a few months ago.

[onederlnd]

That's what I was thinking... but that had nothing to do with NY specifically, nor did it have anything to do with solar flares......

[yoshi1001]

But it is reasonable to assume that a New Yorker would not take the threat of a blackout lightly, which was my original supposition.

[onederlnd]

The only reason that New York was such a big topic is because the last time the lights were out was September 11th. Nobody knew if it was a terrorist attack. The outage caused mass panic because of that.

If New Yorkers know an outage is going ot happen, sure, it'll cause problems, but nothing like the past two times.

[yoshi1001]

Depends how long it lasts.

Anyway, so far things look good. No real problems yet.

[treecko_332]

Also,I would like to piont out that solar flares happen all the time. Once every month (aprox.)

[onederlnd]

Also,I would like to piont out that solar flares happen all the time. Once every month (aprox.)

Solar Flares happen every day, but usually not to this degree.

NOAA Region 484 developed rapidly over the past three days and is now one of the largest sunspot clusters to emerge during Solar Cycle 23. It is about 10 times larger than the Earth. This region, which is nearing the center of the sun, already produced a major flare, R-3 on the NOAA Space Weather Scales, producing a radio blackout on October 19 at 12:50 p.m EDT. The region continues to grow, and additional substantial flare activity is likely.

[LittlePichu]

Hello, I know what you mean Haveing communication issues. Saturday night when solor Flare where going on. My boyfreind was useing he's cell phone tell me he need to be pick up at the mall and when he was about the finsh to tell when to pick him up ...we lost connetion. I try do dail back on my cell it's wan't working right it kept hanging up on me.My boyfriend got through to me again maybe about 4 min after his cell went worng..So yes I see what mean about to communication issues.. ((sorry about my spelling and grammer))

[mysterioustrainer]

Still convinced its a cover-up for the aliens ;) but I will save that for another day. :cool:
I think we have to worry if the government keeps messing with the core of the earth. Opps sorry was watching the Core today (pretty lame movie).

Anyways, Solar Flares have messed with power here in Cheyenne, even though we only have about eight dozen power-generating windmills that spread across the southern side of the city. Makes us feel all hi-tech like.

[AbsolutelyNobody]

It messed up our school's fire system. A buzzer was on for 45 minutes.(stupid "high-tech" fire alarm)