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| Huge solar flare spotted |
| 2005-09-09 |
| Scientists are currently tracking a very large flare that occurred on the Sun around 1:40 pm EDT (17:40 UT). The current estimate of the size of the explosion is X-17; that would place the flare as the fifth largest ever observed. While the blast was not aimed at Earth, the event created a complete blackout of high frequency communications in North and South America. According to the NOAA Space Environment Center, communications used by emergency services along the Gulf Coast may have experienced problems due to this flare. Low frequency navigation systems may also have experienced a period of significant degradation. Further, they report that agencies impacted by space weather storms may experience disruptions over the next two weeks. These include spacecraft operators, electric power systems, high frequency communications, and low-frequency navigations systems. The source of the explosion is probably the same sunspot group that erupted in mid-August. Over the past two weeks, this active region produced a series of significant solar eruptions as it made its way around the back side of the Sun (facing away from Earth). More eruptions are expected in the coming days as it rotates back into view. Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) -- associated giant clouds of plasma in space -- are the largest explosions in the solar system and can pack the force of a billion megaton nuclear bombs. They are caused by the buildup and sudden release of magnetic stress in the solar atmosphere above the giant magnetic poles we see as sunspots. The NASA/ESA SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), missed the event due to routine orbit maneuvers and instrument maintenance. Its coronagraphs will be back in operation Friday morning. |
| Posted by:Oztralian [AKA] God Save The World |
| #13 ..The Haliburton/Zionist Solar Flare Weapon is a success!! Advise Grand Moff Rove and Darth Cheney. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2005-09-09 21:16 |
| #12 Red Dog has cracked ze kode4doo. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-09-09 17:41 |
| #11 shows that Leahy isn't the foremost thing on Cheney's mind :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-09-09 15:35 |
| #10 Mucky was that you giving him [Cheney] shit in Mississippi yesterday? I saw that on CSPAN. The clip came with a label saying something like "This feature contains a brief moment of explicit language." I was on the edge of my seat. Was Cheney going to deliver one of his famous expletives? Who was he going to cuss out? But, after a while nothing happened, and the label went away, so I went on with what I was doing, though still wearing the headphones. Then I heard a fellow saying "Fuck you, Mr. Cheney. Fuck you, Mr. Cheney." It sounded as if he were just walking past, and decided to sound off. A reporter (rather eagerly) asked Cheney if he'd gotten a lot of that, and Cheney said that was the first he'd heard of it. It sounded as if Cheney said, "Must be a fan of John..." and the reporters laughed. But it was Patrick Leahy that Cheney was supposed to have told to fuck off. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2005-09-09 14:38 |
| #9 "Solar Warming" is to blame. I 'll leave it to wiser wits to fit Bush into the blame equation for this one... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2005-09-09 14:19 |
| #8 Bush is a dumb wooden marionette, all the moon-bats worthy of their non-aborted DNA (thanks mom!)know that the evil puppet-master-string-pulling supra-duper-genius mastermind Karlinius Rovius Maximus seeded the sun with some spot tek as he was flying over the gulf seeding Katrina with his evil Kyoto-busting Hurricane Dust No. 5. You think that boy can't multi-task?!?! Crying won't help ya, tin foil won't do ya no good When Karl comes for ya, ya know you gotta leave the hood. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. |
| Posted by: Abu al-MacSuirtain 2005-09-09 14:04 |
| #7 wil looksn inta it. :) |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-09-09 14:01 |
| #6 Mucky wrk fr eu? European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English". In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl rite n styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas. If zis tru Mucky, pleas tel pepl. |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-09-09 13:49 |
| #5 Mucky was that you giving him shit in Mississippi yesterday? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-09-09 13:37 |
| #4 chaineys ben bz lately |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-09-09 13:11 |
| #3 I blame Ra |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-09-09 12:53 |
| #2 You've changed, Muck. Usually it's Chainey pulling the strings. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-09-09 12:35 |
| #1 ima blayme bush |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-09-09 12:34 |