Apparently the solar flare is aimed straight at us and could hit as early as
tomorrow.

Should I be running around unplugging everything?

"flipper" wrote in message
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:00:30 +0100, "ian field"
wrote:

Apparently the solar flare is aimed straight at us and could hit as early
as
tomorrow.

Should I be running around unplugging everything?


What class flare is it?


None of the articles I've picked out to read say what class.

"flipper" wrote in message
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:30:57 +0100, "ian field"
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"flipper" wrote in message
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:00:30 +0100, "ian field"
wrote:

Apparently the solar flare is aimed straight at us and could hit as
early
as
tomorrow.

Should I be running around unplugging everything?


What class flare is it?


None of the articles I've picked out to read say what class.


That's ok because I can't find any articles at all about a solar flare
aimed at earth arriving tomorrow.


The Chinese must be censoring your google access.

"flipper" wrote in message
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:45:13 +0100, "ian field"
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"flipper" wrote in message
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:30:57 +0100, "ian field"
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"flipper" wrote in message
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:00:30 +0100, "ian field"
wrote:

Apparently the solar flare is aimed straight at us and could hit
as
early
as
tomorrow.

Should I be running around unplugging everything?


What class flare is it?


None of the articles I've picked out to read say what class.


That's ok because I can't find any articles at all about a solar
flare
aimed at earth arriving tomorrow.


The Chinese must be censoring your google access.


Not any more than they're censoring your cut and paste keys

http://solarcycle24.com/

Cheers

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On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:45:13 +0100, "ian field"
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:30:57 +0100, "ian field"
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:00:30 +0100, "ian field"
wrote:

Apparently the solar flare is aimed straight at us and could hit
as
early
as
tomorrow.

Should I be running around unplugging everything?


What class flare is it?


None of the articles I've picked out to read say what class.


That's ok because I can't find any articles at all about a solar
flare
aimed at earth arriving tomorrow.


The Chinese must be censoring your google access.


Not any more than they're censoring your cut and paste keys

http://solarcycle24.com/

Cheers



That's a lot of cool data but I don't see anything about a 'dangerous'
flare impacting earth tomorrow.


The real scare stories are published by the Torygraph (Telelgraph) - the
paper that supports our equivalent of the US's loonatic fringe ultra right
wing extremist party.

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:00:30 +0100, ian field wrote:

Apparently the solar flare is aimed straight at us and could hit as early as
tomorrow.

Should I be running around unplugging everything?

The local newspaper said that there would be a planetary conjunction -
Sun, Earth, and Jupiter. I was seriously expecting The Big One; so
for my earthquake prediction skills. ;-)

It can't do any harm to unplug stuff - once, in the middle of a
thunderstorm in Minnesota, I unplugged everything but the TV and
phone answering machine. The apartment building took a direct strike
(according to the manager, it caused about $3K damage). It killed
the answering machine, and gave the TV a very strange malfunction -
I couldn't turn it _off_!

It was about $35.00 to have the tech at the shop diagnose it down
to a shorted transistor, circled it with a marker, and I swapped
it out myself, saving about $75.

Cheers!
Rich

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:00:30 +0100, "ian field"
wrote:

Apparently the solar flare is aimed straight at us and could hit as early as
tomorrow.

Should I be running around unplugging everything?


Be afraid, be very afraid.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news.../21sep_zigzag/

--
Boris