Explosive X1.9 Class Solar Flare Erupts From the Sun

Scitech Daily ^ | JANUARY 12, 2023 | By NASA

[Myrddin]

Not to worry! The USGS assures us that solar activity has nothing to do with earthquakes and weather.

Ben Davidson at Suspicious0bservers would disagree. A flare that big often triggers an earthquake 2 to 3 days later.

[shanover]

I come to no conclusions until AOC gives America her thoughts and feelings.

[OHPatriot]

What are the odds that THIS solar flare just happens to hit Joey Biden’s Prized Corvette, starts a fire in his TS/SCI storage garage, and burns up all the evidence?

I’d say about EVEN MONEY!!

[mykroar]

Is Kimmel going to do another song?

[volunbeer]

I trust you and I did not mean to dismiss it all. If you checked my posting history I often say that a solar flare or storm is a far more likely scenario than an EMP to take out our electrical grid.

We have had some pretty strong ones in the last few decades (and before I am sure) after I became aware of the risk and I was not aware of the US losing satellites and you taught me something - not sure how I missed this (link below).

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/science/spacex-satellites-storm.html

That was not cheap!!!! Hope our military satellites are more hardened than the Starlink ones were.

[SubMareener]

It is not the EMP hardening, it is the orbit. Low Earth Orbit is most susceptible to the physical effects of solar storms.

[MtnClimber]

[volunbeer]

Makes sense and thanks for the education on it. I have been reading more about this.

All of us are smarter than one of us! :)

[wita]

Paywall, so is the Times the only one covering such events?

Guess I’ll have to look.

[telescope115]

…gonna leave a mark…

[zeugma]

For solar weather information without the hype, see SolarHam at https://www.solarham.net/

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

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