Massive solar flare to hit Earth!!!

[ronaldrwl]

We're all doommmed unless we start recycling now.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/interna...C-rss&FEEDNAME=


A powerful solar flare exploded over the sun on Monday -- and we may all feel its effects today.
The particles unleashed from the sun's eruption four days ago has been hitting the Earth's atmosphere, although it's biggest effect is expected to be felt over the next 24 hours, National Geographic reported on its website.
The flares -- the biggest in four years -- are already being blamed for disrupting radio communication in China and could trigger blackouts around the world.
The sun's "explosive reconnections" release huge amounts of energy as heat, measuring roughly 35 million degrees Fahrenheit, according to physicist Dean Pesnell, project scientist for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

"It won't hit us dead-on," said Pesnell.
However, strong activity is expected in the form of auroras -- the southern and northern lights, which occur when atoms above Earth's gain energy from solar charged particles, then release it as light.
The US Space Weather Prediction Center forecasts a 30 percent chance of auroras as far south as Washington, DC and stargazers should look for a reddish glow to light up the night sky, the website reported.
Monday's explosion doesn't compare to the giant blasts of the early 2000s.
That most recent active period spawned the biggest solar flare on ever directly measured in November 2003, a blast more than ten times as powerful as Monday's.
In 1973, a magnetic storm from a solar flare caused 6 million people to lose electricity in Canada.

[ghettodub]

Silly article, there aren't 6 million people in Canada. There's like 150, and they all know each other

[StagLefty]

I've got batteries

[CrufflerSteve]

Silly article, there aren't 6 million people in Canada. There's like 150, and they all know each other

That's just the Newfie's. They're all closely related. There's probably a few 1000 Canucks in the provinces that have discovered fire.

Steve

[TFOGGER]

When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout....

[Hoosier]

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

I <3 NASA

H.

[Marlin]

Figures, I get a line on a job to go to on monday, and we're all going to die.

Knew I should have stayed asleep...

[TFOGGER]

Figures, I get a line on a job to go to on monday, and we're all going to die.

Knew I should have stayed asleep...

Some mornings it's just not worth chewing through the restraints....

[Mtn.man]

I have sunscreen SP 1000000045.

[Byte Stryke]

and we are supposed to what?

Have extra food, water, Batteries?

done... crisis averted, NEXT!