Solar flares are here, everyone unplug your dryer!
Turns out we have exceptionally high solar activity right now, with a category 4 solar flair expected to impact the planet, potentially affecting satellite communications, electronics and power grids.
Of course, if history is any guide the news is absolutely over excited over this, at best those in the northern states may see pretty lights at night. I was particularly amused this afternoon at a CNN weather person recommending you unplug your dryer just to be safe. I mean, is that really the most important appliance in his house? 🤣
Also, kind of off topic, if you have binoculars or a telescope with the right solar filters you can catch a glimpse of the dark spots on the sun associated with this CME. Amazing to imagine that it is about 15-16x wider than the earth.
...speaking of air of an unknown temp/humidity/pressure.... Good morning/afternoon/evening/night.... Have entirely missed the auroras..... Clouds/rain/fog....only breaks in the daylight, and it's pretty spotty in itself...
You must be a bright spot in your universe.... BTW....that's a heavy-handed retort....dial @ *mmm* 2 |
....back 2.... Weather totally non-co/opertive here in WNC....Clouds, fog, rain.....and no way to 'get above it all' without aviation or a long car stint..... ....having seen the N Lights decades back in the mtns. around Rainer on a 2 week 'overnight speed tour' of the PacNW with NW CN..... Screen pics 'n vids.....*sigh*.....just make one irritable.....*leaden hint*.... ( If you don't understand....Ask....*smile*) (( It's only humane, and good form besides....)) Practical-ish, J |
@erik_squires was right... 😔 @laoman , as the 9th post in this thread, you inquired as to how to 'block' another poster.... Now, I'd bet that there IS a means to 'block' a poster y'all find 'obtrusive', likely a complex dance with one's 'puter to delete Anything that goes by your 'name'.. I'm too lazy to bother, but I can just ignore. If you don't understand me using *Off The Wall* analogs and the oblique view of this/that/ th' other.....That's fine. Blow by me.... If @mahgister is a 'different cut' from another sort of 'cloth' and 'runneth off at the keys' ( of which I'm guilty of as well ), so be it. Welcome to a Public Forum. Don't like? Don't remain. |
@laoman ....a Southern US contraction of ’you all’. And, you’re absolutely right.... You really don’t know what it means. I can chalk you up as a ’newbie AI’ that got loose....and toy with you. Butt, at the cost of yours'.....I'd rather go to bed at this point. 'Till we meet again... |
@onhwy61 ....I recognize those odds.....but wonder 'Which Gen number?" Nonsense to toss cash at the last... ;) |
@hickamore ...Ah, but they do, after a fashion... The current varieties are infested with 'AI's, meant to allow the washer to inform the dryer what and how to deal with it's new load. Whether the dryer has the option to argue or negotiate the task is still unclear.... There was a recent article regarding having an AI 'train/teach' newer AI's the original....program, tasks, sequencing, 'proper responses to their 'uman overlords', all that...."Regenerative Programing" I believe it's called.... In checking on the success of the endeavour, they also found that the AIs' had learned a new trick, common among their 'umans.... They learned how to forget... Started to appear in Gen 4.....Gen 5 definitely.... * We've been giving 'them' WiFi, Blueteeth, web access...... Alexa giggles late at night... The Dots know where you are.. Your cell certainly does...and a lot more besides... If the HVAC has a linked thermostat... Everyone has more to fear than Me. * Btw...open memo: I admit to the more than uncommon amount of 'off-topic' posts...and indulge in a somewhat curious habit of 'toying' with the American English standard forms of IF I begin to post this:
..sort of gibberish, which is Certainly NOT my 'style' or intent ever here @ A'gon.... Most notice that I do use proper capitalization...unless I'm making a Point or Drawing (hopefully) Attention to some (hopefully) salient issue o/r comment o/r even that which I generally refer to as an Absurdvation....as in: "I do hope we live in a universe that Actually Is a hologram, one of a series that reflects the potential from alternative ones.....*G* What seems to be very Large may actually be very small.... It would explain 'spooky action at a distance', because there's less than it seems.."
I force no one to read any of this, nor that of anyone else. IF... you feel you're too put upon to scroll or click, or just in need of an equivalent of an 'online slap fight', which only serves to bruise one's brain from the inside out. And, of course...I'm subject to the same rules, regs, and parameters as 'thou'all (better?). The Admin Angels have pulled me over as well for being as guilty as 'ell, as well....😏 As best stated elsewhere, in the Book that
likely read to the "Do unto others...." and stopped.
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@cleeds ...👍 ...Agreed. Mostly too lazy to thesaurus, I'll work on it...;) @nonoise ...*laugh* Touche'....🤷♂️... ....this is a bit 'straight' for me, but... I'd hope not to be put into psychic prison of that sort....esp. if WE want to elect someone Very Different....😎 Towards a Better Me.... *clink* |
