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

Who is the idiot who now discuss about justifying a war in a solar flare thread ?

You were the one who insisted on opening that door and going down that road despite the fact that this is an audio forum, not a political flame war forum

All criminals after the last four years of masses controls, giving money to Ukraine and Israelis to entertain ongoing wars, never adressed the grid stability problem... Think about criminals think about those who lead North America...

and I would have been happy not to go down the road, and I tried to point that out.  But you insisted, and your E.E. Cummings buddy said, and I quote:

Welcome to a Public Forum.

No Cover~No Minimum/Maximum

 

Don't like?

 

Don't remain.

so here we are.

and i answered them rationally

You have proved yourself incapable of a rational answer.

Interesting article about headaches and solar radiation cylcles, but it seems there is no correlation...

What is interesting here is the way the scientists canalyses tweeter content to arrive at this conclusion ..

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5180106/

«We analyzed 63 million keyword-bearing messages posted over the three years covering the maximum of Solar Cycle 24. No correlation has been found despite the large sample size. The simulation reveals that the significant correlation would have emerged even if only 1% of headache (2% of migraine) instances were caused by geomagnetic disturbances, thus placing very low upper limits on the prevalence of this trigger among Twitter users.»

 

 

 

These solar flares are just our conceited sun showing off.

It thinks the whole world revolves around it!😆

Yeah, sorry...

Well, I guess it only has about 4.5 billion years or there abouts left, so we will see who gets the last laugh.