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Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
edited March 2012 in A Moving Train
A massive solar storm is due to arrive at Earth early Thursday, and is expected to shake the globe's magnetic field while expanding the Northern Lights.

A giant blast of plasma spat from the sun at as much as 4 million miles per hour Tuesday -- by some measures the largest solar event since late 2006 -- and it could lead to serious issues on Earth, forcing some planes to reroute, knocking out power grids, and blacking out radios.

The sun unleashed the cosmic double whammy late March 6, erupting with two major flares to cap a busy day of powerful solar storms, Space.com reported. One of the flares is the most powerful solar eruption so far this year.



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/ ... z1oWje3Ld2


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  • JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
    While I refuse to open any of Godfather's Fox's links, this next solar flare gives us another chance of seeing aurora borealis, and even in the much farther south.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/0 ... 32255.html
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    Godfather. wrote:
    A massive solar storm is due to arrive at Earth early Thursday, and is expected to shake the globe's magnetic field while expanding the Northern Lights.

    A giant blast of plasma spat from the sun at as much as 4 million miles per hour Tuesday -- by some measures the largest solar event since late 2006 -- and it could lead to serious issues on Earth, forcing some planes to reroute, knocking out power grids, and blacking out radios.

    The sun unleashed the cosmic double whammy late March 6, erupting with two major flares to cap a busy day of powerful solar storms, Space.com reported. One of the flares is the most powerful solar eruption so far this year.



    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/ ... z1oWje3Ld2


    Godfather.
    Makes me wish I was back home in Wisconsin ... maybe they will get a show tonight!

    what's with all the solar flares... could it be a 2012 thing :shock: :o
  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    Jeanwah wrote:
    While I refuse to open any of Godfather's Fox's links, this next solar flare gives us another chance of seeing aurora borealis, and even in the much farther south.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/0 ... 32255.html

    :lol: ca'mon I know you peeked. :lol:

    Godfather.
  • JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
    Godfather. wrote:
    Jeanwah wrote:
    While I refuse to open any of Godfather's Fox's links, this next solar flare gives us another chance of seeing aurora borealis, and even in the much farther south.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/0 ... 32255.html

    :lol: ca'mon I know you peeked. :lol:

    Godfather.

    Ahh, no. :eh:
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