Solar tsunami expected on 3rd of August, 2010

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Solar tsunami expected on 3rd of August, 2010

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Tsunami, you say? All hands, brace for impact! And get your Faraday cages at the ready.
Nasa scientists braced for 'solar tsunami' to hit earth (The Telegraph)
The sun sends a charged cloud hurtling our way (New Scientist)
""What wonderful fireworks the Sun has been producing,” the UK solar expert said.
“This was a very rare event – not one, but two almost simultaneous eruptions from different locations on the sun were launched toward the Earth."

You're gonna see "wonderful" when the appliances will start to fail all around the house :twisted:
I'll be happy to share the possible experience - if not auroras, maybe the stories about my computer crashing several times during this "wonderful" day...
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Post by Aro »

Wait, this is what makes vista not work! The effects travel backwards in time!

On a more serious note here's a clip of the sun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbRMl78x6Ds

Around 2:00 in it looks like the ejection though I'm not certain. It's rather pretty in an SPF 1 trillion sort of way.
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At least it's cloudy for the next few days...
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Xenon_Slayer wrote:At least it's cloudy for the next few days...
Where?Can I come?How many degrees? :mrgreen:

Last night here were 38 degrees celsius (94% humidity level) .I tried to get outside for a cigarette and I said "hey ,what the hell ,its bad for my health " .That's how hot it was.Now I don't have the gut to get outside . :evil:
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Post by Xenon_Slayer »

September has come early in Germany. All the clouds will do in respect to the solar storm is block any view of aurora if there are any at this latitude. Saw some in Iceland a few years back and it was incredible. I'll be phoning some relatives in Scotland tonight telling them to get outside.
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Post by mad_axeman »

Well, it's currently overcast in my part of the UK, which is about par for the course really - any chance of seeing any kind of aerial phenomena in the sky in the UK and it's overcast and grey!! Especially where I live!
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So if I'll look at the sky tonight I should see something on it ,the moon perhaps ,Argon One...anything :gruebel:
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Post by Xenon_Slayer »

Depends on where you are. The further north, the more likely you will be to see aurora. I don't know if the south will be as lucky in their winter. I've not heard anything more accurate than 'Britain' and 'Northern America' being mentioned as possible areas to see them from.
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Post by BeidAmmikon »

:o Is "memory parity check error" or something on those lines, bad?
I wonder if I'm next :roll: Where do you find driver updates for that?
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Post by Pat the Cat »

Look on the bright side - there will be boosted consumer demand for all the out of warranty appliances that have just been fried.

Plus, more casual work for technical fix-it sort of blokes.
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Post by Winter Dragon »

The solar events aren't strong enough to interfere with communications or any electronics. I seriously doubt they'd be strong enough to cause a Tsunami, but some of you still have a few hours until midnight don't you. :P
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Post by Xenon_Slayer »

Actually, strong enough Coronal Mass Ejections aimed at us have the potential to cause several billion dollars worth of damage. We've not had one in living memory, but one struck when the telegraph system was in place and downed it for a while.

Info on potentially damaging sun storms
edit: Found info on the 1859 solar 'superstorm'

As for the 'Tsunami', I think they were describing what was happening on the sun. No, the solar activity won't cause a Tsunami on earth.
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Ok ,my eyes will be on the sky tonight ...hope no one will laugh when I'll tell them that I wait to see the aurora borealis :oops:
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I shall be hiding my eyes from the skies. If the Triffids escape, I don't want to be blind! :D
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Post by matthewfarmery »

I wondered when someone will bring that up, a real classic book was that :)

but that was a man made problem through and through, so very little chance of been blinded, (but you never know) :lol:
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Post by silenced »

I hope my precious satellites survive it ... I do not want to go to work on wednesday and nothing left to take care of. :)
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Post by Winter Dragon »

@Xenon_Slayer - I meant to write "on this occasion". (oops) :)
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@Winter Dragon
Your location made me search wiki for answears :o
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Post by Tracker001 »

:cry: x2
Going to be cloudy here. Should have been able to see the Aroa at the lower lat's . I'm ~ 42deg .
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Post by Aro »

Be wary of the Aurora... supposedly it can make people vanish.

Seen it do some really weird stuff, though that was over ten years ago. The dormant phase must have been a coincidence. Nothing to worry about now.


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