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Sunspot 1520 Kicking one out right now..X -flare and still rising..LDE..X1.4... | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 10506528  Canada07/12/2012 07:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What effect will a carrington type event have on the nuclear power plants/reactors of the world, especially here in North America? I am a bit concerned given what is going on/has happened in Japan, and no one can seem to give me a answer. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 12774950 Canada07/12/2012 08:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Carrington Event of 1859 was the first documented event of a solar ... that the flare reached a peak strength of about X45 Read Again... X45 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19433400 [link to www.space.com] I mean I love science and I find it interesting to know what is going on with our solar system but I wouldn't poop my pants over a small flare. We had a X28+...AN X28!! 4/11/03 and we did not lose our electricity then so I'm going to go on a hunch we wont right now either... I can not imagine the mass panic and hysteria on this site during that day. God it had to be marvelous YOUR wrong Buddy,,... you should read evey thing when you read... "2003: The Ultra-Powerful Halloween Sun Storm(( The sensor topped out at X28, already a massive flare), but later analysis found that the flare reached a peak strength of about X45, NASA has said. The solar storm was part of a string of at least nine major flares over a two-week period. )) "" Solar Flare Classifications Solar flares are classified as A, B, C, M or X according to the peak flux (in watts per square meter, W/m2) of 100 to 800 picometer X-rays near Earth, as measured on the GOES spacecraft. Each class has a peak flux ten times greater than the preceding one, with X class flares having a peak flux of order 10-4 W/m2. Within a class there is a linear scale from 1 to 9, so an X2 flare is twice as powerful as an X1 flare, and is four times more powerful than an M5 flare. The more powerful M and X class flares are often associated with a variety of effects on the near-Earth space environment. 1859: The Carrington Event The Carrington Event of 1859 was the first documented event of a solar flare impacting Earth. The flare was the largest documented solar storm in the last 500 years, NASA scientists have said. It also caused severe interruptions in global telegraph communications, even shocking some telegraph operators and sparking fires when discharges from the lines ignited telegraph paper, according to a NASA description. Your right I did not go into detail and spew out the entire thing.. But your only proving my point even more Glad to help.....  |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 12774950 Canada07/12/2012 08:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Does Any one remember that movie i think i was in the 70's early 80's 83 tops. there was a masive solar flare and any one that was outside was hit with the UV Rays that Came out from it... well that happened today,, The explosion also strobed Earth with a pulse of extreme UV radiation. [link to www.spaceweather.com] In the movie well lets just say they were toast...  |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 15822494 United States07/12/2012 08:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | don't get caught up in the whole ''killshot'' scenario... Quoting: DXTH ST4R 19584872 a CME/solar flare bringing down our electrical grid system is not of immediate importance... a CME/solar flare triggering a massive earthquake is of immediate importance... the Earth has been building up a lot of pressure because of the incoming energies bombarding it... all it take a good size CME/solar flare to hit us to trigger the pressure... be prepared for a 7+ Mag Earthquake in the next couple of days if this CME/solar flare impacts the Earth may the gods be with us all... this guy has it right here. friday the 13th tomorrow is fast approaching and what about that final baktun 14... thing about the return of the ancestors?? |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 15822494 United States07/12/2012 08:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What the bejesus! Quoting: El Quisqueyano [link to iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080] That is one heck of a flare and CME!!! Buckle up for the 14th and the 15th!!! aimed at us with laser sight! |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 19584872 United States07/12/2012 08:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | don't get caught up in the whole ''killshot'' scenario... Quoting: DXTH ST4R 19584872 a CME/solar flare bringing down our electrical grid system is not of immediate importance... a CME/solar flare triggering a massive earthquake is of immediate importance... the Earth has been building up a lot of pressure because of the incoming energies bombarding it... all it take a good size CME/solar flare to hit us to trigger the pressure... be prepared for a 7+ Mag Earthquake in the next couple of days if this CME/solar flare impacts the Earth may the gods be with us all... this guy has it right here. friday the 13th tomorrow is fast approaching and what about that final baktun 14... thing about the return of the ancestors?? at this point I wouldn't be surprised if we get alien visitation this week as well... July = DOOM |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 19620076 United States07/12/2012 08:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Since this is expected to hit worse in the middle east. Does that mean that Solar flares + middle east = spike in gas prices???? And lets not forget the nukes and nuclear reactors over there (or not?) Quoting: ThaSaltineCracka how is it supposed to hit worse in the middle east, we have NO idea when the CME from the FLARE will arrive for sure even, let alone what part of the globe will take the first energies of the CME. THE FLARE ALREADY HIT, within Minutes. These things are not affected by this flare or the cme when it comes in. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1478493 United States07/12/2012 08:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | For those that asked about "protecting" things... Quoting: Damrod Not that you need to for these smaller flares. When we get an X-30 or up, yeah, might want to consider it. Nice article though...enjoy. [link to www.futurescience.com] Here's another one... [link to www.csl.army.mil] Have we ever gotten one that big? |
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| Damrod User ID: 6266696 United States07/12/2012 08:59 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | For those that asked about "protecting" things... Quoting: Damrod Not that you need to for these smaller flares. When we get an X-30 or up, yeah, might want to consider it. Nice article though...enjoy. [link to www.futurescience.com] Here's another one... [link to www.csl.army.mil] Have we ever gotten one that big? A big one a few years ago that was NOT earth directed...and the one we mentioned earlier in Sept. 1859 known as "the Carrington Event". I have read reports that estimate the Carrington flare anywhere from an X-45 to an X-67. Did all kinds of weird things. The question is whether our more sensitive technologies are at risk from an event like that. Some reports said the Telegraph lines caught on fire, others say it caused the paper in the telegraph receivers to catch on fire even though the units had been disconnected from the transmission lines. Hard to say as it was 153 years ago. Interesting stuff. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." Thomas Jefferson "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." George Bernard Shaw |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 5120928 United States07/12/2012 09:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Since this is expected to hit worse in the middle east. Does that mean that Solar flares + middle east = spike in gas prices???? And lets not forget the nukes and nuclear reactors over there (or not?) Quoting: ThaSaltineCracka how is it supposed to hit worse in the middle east, we have NO idea when the CME from the FLARE will arrive for sure even, let alone what part of the globe will take the first energies of the CME. THE FLARE ALREADY HIT, within Minutes. These things are not affected by this flare or the cme when it comes in. NOPE |
| RTS REDUX User ID: 8620349 United States07/12/2012 09:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.youtube.com] "If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth programme, but is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of super-rich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead, it becomes logical, even the perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs. Communism or more accurately, socialism, is not a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite." Gary Allen NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 18898099 United States07/12/2012 09:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 18898099 United States07/12/2012 09:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It amazes me when look at the size and think they're experts. You have no idea what you're talking about Furthermore, how big and direct was the cme? Tell us. Geomagnetic effects are not that simple. This is perfect evidence of the difference between booksmarts and real intelligence. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 19620076 United States07/12/2012 10:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It amazes me when look at the size and think they're experts. You have no idea what you're talking about some here actually KNOW that FLARES hit in MINUTES and that there are satellites who record the size of them. OK An X1.4 flare is of no interest in and of itself, except some of us feel them, as I did today. There may or maybe not be small radio type problems. The person you quoted was talking about the flare and not the CME and we will not know how the CME will affect us until it actually shows up in a couple days of so. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 19273437 United States07/12/2012 10:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | on the spaceweather.com website they mentioned this. Finally, solar protons accelerated by the blast are swarming around Earth. The radiation storm, in progress, ranks "S1" on NOAA space weather scales, which means it poses no serious threat to satellites or astronauts. This could change if the storm continues to intensify. Stay tuned. cough. if storm intensifys. Were gonna get hit full in the face with a pretty big cme. cough. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 11468729 United States07/12/2012 10:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ok, I've been monitoring the sun for awhile now, and today's CME is actually one of the nastiest I've ever seen. Not because it's so strong, but because the blast hit Earth dead center Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13578021 Very rare... that. no wonder now why my heart was skipping beats like crazy today. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 19523259 United States07/12/2012 10:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What's Up in Space -- 12 Apr 2003 Subscribe to Space Weather News! AURORA WATCH: Earth remains inside a solar wind stream flowing from a large coronal hole on the Sun. Although geomagnetic activity was low on April 11th, sky watchers should continue to be alert for auroras. The best viewing sites will be at high latitudes: e.g., New Zealand, southern Australia, northern Europe, Canada, Alaska and other northern US states like Wisconsin and Michigan ... and, of course, the ISS. Right: These colorful auroras appeared over Menominee, Michigan, just before sunrise on April 10th. Photo credit: Duane Clausen. SOLAR TEA CUP: The Sun briefly resembled a tea cup on April 11th when a giant magnetic loop erupted over the star's western limb. Astronomers call such handle-like structures prominences. This one, photographed by the orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), spanned about 35 Earth-diameters from the base to the top of the loop. |
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