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. 

erik_squires

Well this thread is going nowhere good.  Can we at least get back to astronomy? 

@erik_squires was right... 😔

@laoman , as the 9th post in this thread, you inquired as to how to 'block' another poster....
@immatthewj , you chime in at #11 with a 'no' ...being brief about it..
@laoman  , at #12, a snide remark that endears you to none.

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.
 

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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

 

Who is this "Yall" person? Strange name and certainly not an English word. Also I have no idea what those two "posts" are supposed to mean.

 

@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...

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