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2006-12-14 -Short Attention Span Theater-
New Forecast: Severe Space Storm Headed to Earth
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Posted by 3dc 2006-12-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 MADONNA'S DADDY as DARTH VADER [breathing] > "LUKE, my son ...".
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-12-14 01:27||   2006-12-14 01:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Please don't use the transporter during an ion storm, okay?
Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow  2006-12-14 01:40||   2006-12-14 01:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Severe Space Storm Headed to Earth

man the tinfoil hats!

Posted by RD 2006-12-14 03:16||   2006-12-14 03:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Heh. Perfect timing.

So far this week at work, we've lost a processor and 3/4ths the memory on a testing database, and lost ALL user access to one of the two production servers. We have about 15,000 users across the US; Thursday is one of the two busiest days of the week; last I heard, we're running on 1/2 capacity.

This Thursday, around noon, is our team Christmas lunch.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2006-12-14 07:24|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-12-14 07:24|| Front Page Top

#5 I think I'l strip butt-naked, and go lay my pale, soft body on the snow outside. If I'm bathed in enough of those cosmic radiations, I just might develop a few superpowers of my own. It really works, I read this in the Fantasfic Four.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-12-14 08:32||   2006-12-14 08:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Some are also accompanied by coronal mass ejections (CME), clouds of charged particles that arrive in a day or two. This flare unleashed a strong CME that's aimed squarely at Earth.

Sounds to me like NASA has hired an ex porn writer to do their news releases.
Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan  2006-12-14 08:46||   2006-12-14 08:46|| Front Page Top

#7 I think we can agree that "coronal mass ejection" is much more highbrow than "spurts of solar jism'.
Posted by SteveS 2006-12-14 09:28||   2006-12-14 09:28|| Front Page Top

#8 "storminess"? Is that a word? If so, I nominate it above "truthiness" for the word of the year. Hey, it's not New Year's yet, there's still time, right?
Posted by BA 2006-12-14 09:34||   2006-12-14 09:34|| Front Page Top

#9 I love the tinfoil hat pic!
Oh, by the way, NASA is doing a major spacewalk today! Guess they have good insurance policies on the poor guinea pigs astronauts.
Posted by 3dc 2006-12-14 09:50||   2006-12-14 09:50|| Front Page Top

#10 ...I think I saw this movie on MST3K once...

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-12-14 10:12||   2006-12-14 10:12|| Front Page Top

#11 Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are not expected to be put at additional risk, Kunches said.

Nicely phrased. Flares are no joke above the atmo.
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-12-14 10:23||   2006-12-14 10:23|| Front Page Top

#12 coronal mass ejections (CME)

Does it wash off, or will I have to take it to the dry cleaners?
Posted by Raj 2006-12-14 12:44||   2006-12-14 12:44|| Front Page Top

#13 Its Bush's fault because he didnt help with global warming!

/kos
/du
Posted by OldSpook 2006-12-14 13:54||   2006-12-14 13:54|| Front Page Top

#14 "..coronal mass ejections...The science of it all is a gray area."
It's the failure to sign on to Kyoto! Al Gore Call your office.
Posted by ΛΕΟΝΙΔΑΣ 2006-12-14 17:02|| http://fightingintheshade.blogspot.com/]">[http://fightingintheshade.blogspot.com/]  2006-12-14 17:02|| Front Page Top

#15 Damn, Ima need a sigma thingy for my frist letter.
Posted by hipman 2006-12-14 17:21||   2006-12-14 17:21|| Front Page Top

#16 "Its Bush's fault because he didnt help with global warming!"

And Halliburton! You forgot Halliburton!
Posted by no mo uro 2006-12-14 17:40||   2006-12-14 17:40|| Front Page Top

#17 Coronal mass ejections resulting in spastic lurching and jerking.
Why it's the twelvth Imam.
or was that the twelfth imam ?
Posted by wxjames 2006-12-14 19:15||   2006-12-14 19:15|| Front Page Top

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