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"What the hell is that thang?"
"I don't know, but take my pitcher with it!"
Seriously, what is this? It looks to be about one-fifth of The Sun's visible surface! Combine this with the spherical object near The Sun spotted earlier this week, and we've got ourselves a genuine, bona-fide, simultaneous, anomalous occurrence!
Spaceweather calls it a Coronal Hole, and that solar wind from this hole could arrive here on Earth as early as the 16th. If other geometric shapes appear on the face of The Sun, I will let you know, provided, of course, we're all not solar-microwaved first..
Don't forget to take your Vitamin D this week!
Found it all on Godlike Productions..
The One/Two Punch begins to smack Earth about midnight tonight Central Standard Time.. CBS News. Excerpts:
The largest solar storm in five years is racing toward Earth, threatening to unleash a torrent of charged particles that could disrupt power grids, GPS and airplane flights.
The sun erupted Tuesday evening, and the effects should start smacking Earth between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. EST Thursday, according to forecasters at the federal government's Space Weather Prediction Center. They say the storm, which started with a massive solar flare, is growing as it speeds outward from the sun.
"It's hitting us right in the nose," said Joe Kunches, a scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He called it the sun's version of "Super Tuesday."
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The solar storm is likely to last through Friday morning, but the region that erupted can still send more blasts our way, Kunches said. He said another set of active sunspots is ready to aim at Earth right after this.
But for now, scientists are waiting to see what happens Thursday when the charged particles hit Earth at 4 million mph.
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But there is potential for widespread problems. Solar storms have three ways they can disrupt technology on Earth: with magnetic, radio and radiation emissions. This is an unusual situation when all three types of solar storm disruptions are likely to be strong, Kunches said.
That means "a whole host of things" could follow, he said.
The magnetic part of the storm has the potential to trip electrical power grids. Kunches said utility companies around the world have been alerted. The timing and speed of the storm determines whether it knocks off power grids, he said.
I think we'll all be cool as long as no one tells Nicholas Cage..
From The Truth Behind The Scenes. Watch the video. Compelling. I haven't seen any reasonable explanation yet, but that's not saying there isn't one...
Solar flare warning for SA
The Hermanus Space Weather Warning Centre (SWWC) on Sunday said a large solar flare was currently being experienced in South Africa. The solar flare would result in higher radiation levels from the sun.
SWWC’s forecaster Kobus Olckers said people should be careful when they go outside.
"People must wear high sunscreen factor at the moment or preferably go shopping," he said.
Elevated X-Ray Flux map, continually updated, from NOAA. Proton flux chart here.
That map is troubling. So much intense radiation covering most of Antarctica, and a lot of Greenland.. This is not a preferred scenario.
From The Two-Way
A large piece of foam had fallen away from an external fuel tank after Thursday's launch, which appeared to then hit the shuttle's thermal tiles.
But the incident occurred four minutes into the flight — a time, NASA analysts say, that presents far less danger than in the first moments after launch. The foam reportedly did no damage to the tiles.
Good luck, Astronauts. Come home safely.
Meanwhile: Short term conspiracy effect: Ed Dames' credibility got a big shot in the arm /or amazingly lucky break, didn't it?
Non-nerds need not apply.. After reading the Abstract, I think my ears are bleeding.. Bottom line: The trigeminal nerve in birds transmit magnetic information to the brain, and magnetic disturbance effects that information. Two pronged thought(s): If this is, in part, an explanation for the mass bird deaths, can the same be said for the fish/amphibian die offs? Might fish have a similar "sonar" navigational system, and/or might their nervous systems be effected by a sudden change in magnetism? As of yesterday, no official explanation for the fish deaths in Ozark, Arkansas(according to this horribly written article--scroll down mid-way) has been identified as the cause.Solar magnetic activity during the three week apex of animal die-offs was low(Jan.1-21), so could tectonic activity or a pole shift generate enough and varied magnetic disturbance to this end? Or maybe, something else..Now that Solar flare activity has increased, might we see similar events? If not; why?
From Solar Cycle 24 Excerpts:02/09/2011 by Kevin VE3EN at 02:30Comment on Message Board
Solar Update - Solar activity has increased within the past 24 hours with C-Class flares and an M1.9 Solar Flare around growing Sunspot 1153. Unfortunately this region has picked the wrong time to get active. It will soon rotate onto the western limb and out of direct earth view. (This is unclear, as it would be good news if this active region rotated away from us, so I'm guessing "out of" should be "into." I'm also assuming the M-Class flare didn't effect us, as no mention was made to that effect.)
Several new sunspot groups have formed on the visible solar disk and were numbered 1154, 1155, 1156 and 1157. These regions are not yet capable of producing strong solar flares, but that could change.These sunspot seem to have caught everyone off guard. It's development was sudden, and very quickly, an M-Class flare was produced. There are four active regions that are in the early stages of development, and rotating toward us(If I'm interpreting correctly..), so we could get some interesting solar activity activity coming up..
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