Unchained Preppers

Off Topic/ B.S. => General Off Topic => Topic started by: Kentactic on January 02, 2014, 12:24:59 AM

Title: Current solar flare activity
Post by: Kentactic on January 02, 2014, 12:24:59 AM
Watch "M3,1 Class Solar Flare - Two Fast Growing Earthside Sunspots - SUBSIDING RADIATION STORM" on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mKevjf_16Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Title: Re: Current solar flare activity
Post by: sledge on January 02, 2014, 09:03:09 AM
That is the one from the 31st I believe.  On the first there was a m9.9.  It's interesting that the last four flares have all been increasing in intensity with each new flare.
Title: Re: Current solar flare activity
Post by: JohnyMac on January 02, 2014, 09:31:20 AM
Yup, we are doomed!  :hiding:  :lmfao:

I wonder what the size of the solar flare was that hit us in 1859. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859)

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Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases giving telegraph operators electric shocks.[7] Telegraph pylons threw sparks.[8] Some telegraph systems continued to send and receive messages despite having been disconnected from their power supplies...

...In June 2013, a joint venture from researchers at Lloyd's of London and Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) in the United States used data from the Carrington Event to estimate the current cost of a similar event to the world economy at $2.6 trillion (£1.67tr).
Title: Re: Current solar flare activity
Post by: sledge on January 02, 2014, 09:58:53 AM
Yup, we are doomed!  :hiding:  :lmfao:

Nope,  I doubt doooomed.  We'll all be just a little more tanned. 
Title: Re: Current solar flare activity
Post by: JohnyMac on January 02, 2014, 11:47:00 AM
Yupper Sledge plus noodies computer will work  ;)