EKdude

Got some more news for you guys: I've been reading about this... it seems like something to wait for and see what chaos is brought into the world if any ...

Click here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3210901.stm

http://www.msnbc.com/news/984388.asp?0dm=N15NT&cp1=1

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2....htm?list55595

EKdude

The sun continued to hurl blobs of charged particles at Earth over the weekend, with a fresh eruption from each of two huge sunspots. Space storms could buffet Earth sometime Tuesday.

EKdude

EKdude

The storm has now hit, and set the Japanese communication satellite Kodama out of operation. Apart from that, no major damage has been registered.

This is the largest solar storm hitting the earth since 1859, in which year there was an even larger storm.

imported_gatherer

won't hit here tilll high noon .... should be fun

EKdude

Some of these pictures are taken in Canada


Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada


Val-Bélair, Québec, Canada


Luceville, Quebec, Canada


Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada


Alaska, USA





near the banks of the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

bbarbulo

iTrader: (2)

beautiful!!

EKdude

Here is the latest report on it now...

:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2003 Oct 29 1458 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center
#
# Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 28 October follow.
Solar flux 274 and mid-latitude A-index 20.
The mid-latitude K-index at 1500 UTC on 29 October was 6 (189 nT).

Space weather for the past 24 hours has been extreme.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G5 level occurred.
Solar radiation storms reaching the S4 level occurred.
Radio blackouts reaching the R3 level occurred.

Space weather for the next 24 hours is expected to be severe.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G4 level are expected.
Solar radiation storms reaching the S2 level are expected.
Radio blackouts reaching the R3 level are expected.

http://sec.noaa.gov/ftpdir/latest/wwv.txt

Notorious

Those pictures are really beautiful. Anyways I hope that this wont cause to much danger, or things to go out of line.

Jacob

All i want it to do is the power to go out so i can get outta school and not have to go to work and get payed

EKdude

What is a geomagnetic storm?

A geomagnetic storm occurs when unusually strong surges of solar wind (charged particles from the sun) hit the Earth. This effect causes variations in the magnetic field which surrounds the Earth.

EKdude

Further major eruptions are possible from these active regions as they rotate across the face of the sun over the next few days.

Agencies impacted by solar flare radio blackouts, geomagnetic storms, and solar radiation storms may experience disruptions through this period.

These include spacecraft operations, electric power systems, HF communications, and navigation systems.

T-Shirt Ninja

Bah, nothing again, tho I heard on the news that in 89 one of these storms knocked out power in Quebec, since then they have shielded their equipment to prevent it from happening again.

bbarbulo

iTrader: (2)

sheeeyyyyyat... imagine if a geomagnetic storm so powerful blew out all the computer systems, including backup tapes... and we were all rid of debt!!! I mean, all financial records just wiped CLEAN! That'd be sooooo tite... maybe I should go buy a new Jeep Rubicon just in case

EKdude

but if it blew out all the computer systems, including backup tapes and all financial records just wiped CLEAN! Then we'd also lose everything including all the investments of all our savings accounts would be wiped CLEAN too since your saying finacial records, which could be a bummer....

bbarbulo

iTrader: (2)

that's cool, I got way mode debt than what I got in my bank account

EKdude

well yeah! actually me too!
I got way mode debt in the bank as well j/k

imported_gatherer

yeah I mean my net worth is a negative amopunt

I wonder how the international space station is fairing.....

EKdude

History made

I just think that this is amazing, it will be interesting to see how this all pans out.

Could it be possible that these magnetic storms will hit a passing asteroid that could come to earth..
There's alot of questions that even top scientists can't answer.

This storm will go down in history as one of the worst of the modern telecommunications era.

imported_BoOsTd

they sky was crazy last night here over the airport... It looked like a big red hole... hard to explain, ive never seen anything like it... I was in aw for about 30 mins it lasted...