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FAST-GROWING SUNSPOT AR1619 - (updated) 30% chance of X-Class flares!
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[quote:TSWB21:MV8yMDU5NTQ3XzM0NjU3MDQzX0YwQTM4MTBC] [quote:Nibibu Obungo:MV8yMDU5NTQ3XzM0NjU2MDEzXzM1NjgxMjJC] [quote:Anonymous Coward 7335818:MV8yMDU5NTQ3XzM0NjU1ODM4XzhDMkE1Nzc3] [quote:Double O Zero:MV8yMDU5NTQ3XzM0NjU0NzAxXzZEM0I5QzQ4] I've heard a lot about a massive solar flare in terms of its impact on electronics, but what would it do to people and other living things directly? Can anyone tell me? Also, assuming an X class flare is heading here, how much time would we have from knowing it is coming to act? [/quote] This! What will it do to living creatures? [/quote] I don't think that humans and other living creatures are affected directly by a CME (I think there could be trouble in case you have heart pacer or a defibrillator or other elctronic shit implanted in your body but that is just an assumption). Some people (here on GLP) have reported to have heat flushs or feeling kind of weird/trippy....but well, that's just GLP I guess... Indirect effects however will be felt all over. Just imagine a world without electricity: - no lights - no heating - no TV - no radio - no gas pumps working - no street lights - no cars working since all your electronics are fried - no internet - no phones - no hospital service, all patients on life support dying - no tap water - no grocery stores no nothing! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! :damned: [/quote] worst of all no Christmas.... :verysad: [/quote]
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Only a few days ago, sunspot AR1618 was almost invisible. Now it is a behemoth more than 10 times wider than Earth. A movie from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the sunspot's development on Nov. 20-21:
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link to spaceweather.com
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As the sunspot evolves, so does its intense magnetic field--and this means strong flares are in the offing. Fast-changing magnetic fields on the sun have a tendency to reconnect and erupt. NOAA forecasters estimate a 70% chance of M-class flares and a 15% chance of X-flares during the next 24 hours. Because of the sunspot's nearly central location on the solar disk,
any eruptions will likely be Earth-directed.
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link to spaceweather.com
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Updates:
Thread: SUNSPOT AR1618--UPDATE: Sunspot AR1618 has experienced some decay during the past 24 hours, but it is still potent.
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