Large Solar Flare May Bring Disruptions

[Pliablemoose]

A large solar flare was reported Wednesday and forecasters warned of potential electrical and communications disruptions.

The flare was reported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo.

Significant solar eruptions are possible in the coming days and there could be disruptions in spacecraft operations, electric power systems, high frequency communications and low-frequency navigation systems, the agency said.

"This flare, the fourth largest in the last 15 years, erupted just as the ... sunspot cluster was rotating onto the visible disk of the sun," said Larry Combs, solar forecaster at the center.

The flare has affected some high-frequency communications on the sunlit side of Earth, NOAA reported.

NOAA Current Space Weather Conditions

 

[leftyman]

i could use a good tan

 

[HardcoreRobot]

GOD HATES HUMANS!

 

[Patt]

Hope it doesn't fvck with my wireless internet at work (between buildings).

 

[ironcrotch]

Yea, stupid sun better not fvck with my pr0n d/l's :|

 

[bleeb]

PWNED>

 

[Wonderful Pork]

say hello to $4/gallon for gas!

 

[Eli]

I'd actually like to see a solar flare that really caused some significant distruptions..

Doesen't seem like much ever comes of it, but maybe we just haven't had a big enough one.

Disrupt our electricity grid? How does that work, exactly?

 

[spidey07]

I bet bush and his cronies are behind this "solar flare"

I mean think about it. The sun is gas and bush controls all the gas so its has to be the one who did this.

 

[klah]

Wear your tinfoil hat or your brain's alpha waves will be disrupted.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
GOD HATES HUMANS!

Funny you should say that just as I came across this on YTMND.

 

[sao123]

Tanning Parlors drop prices to be able to compete with solar flares...

 

[sixone]

More info.

I wanna see an aurora. I haven't got to see one yet.

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Originally posted by: Eli
I'd actually like to see a solar flare that really caused some significant distruptions..

Doesen't seem like much ever comes of it, but maybe we just haven't had a big enough one.

Sure we have.

 

[Wallydraigle]

Because when you surf, it's just the ocean throwing you out of itself.

 

[imported_goku]

SOLAR FLARE!!! >:shocked:<

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: TheLonelyPhoenix

Originally posted by: Eli
I'd actually like to see a solar flare that really caused some significant distruptions..

Doesen't seem like much ever comes of it, but maybe we just haven't had a big enough one.

Sure we have.

Cool.....

 

[Eli]

Like a rubber band twisted too tightly, stressed magnetic fields in the Sun's atmosphere can suddenly snap to a new shape, and can release as much energy as ten billion one-megaton nuclear bombs.

:shocked:

 

[Swag1138]

Originally posted by: sao123
Tanning Parlors drop prices to be able to compete with solar flares...

The funny thing is, since I'm using firefox, that link worked.

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: Swag1138

Originally posted by: sao123
Tanning Parlors drop prices to be able to compete with solar flares...

The funny thing is, since I'm using firefox, that link worked.

QFT

 

[RGN]

A communications disruption can mean only one thing. War.

 

[myusername]

Originally posted by: Wallydraigle
Because when you surf, it's just the ocean throwing you out of itself.

We are all made of stars?