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Big Solar Storm Will Hit Earth Friday
CBC News ^

Posted on 10/23/2003 9:03:27 PM PDT by webber

Big solar storm will hit Earth Friday Oct 24th

BOULDER, COLO. - A strong geomagnetic storm is expected to hit Earth on Friday. Scientists say it may knock out electrical grids and satellite communications.

A "sunspot cluster" said to be 10 times the size of Earth could damage satellites and power grids, as well as cable TV, pager and cellular telephone service.

Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colo., say it is one of the largest sunspot clusters in years.

Larry Combs, a forecaster at the federal Space Environment Center in Boulder, says the sunspot cluster released a chunk of the sun's outer atmosphere early Wednesday morning.

NASA's Goddard Space Center says the sunspot clusters produce a "coronal mass ejection" – an explosion of gas and charged particles from the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere.

In 1997, television networks in the U.S. were affected when satellites used to beam programming to local stations were knocked out of service.


Written by CBC News Online


TOPICS: Announcements; Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: signsandwonders; solarflare; solarflare2003
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To: webber
Amazing and strange events are happening all over the world. I'm overwhelmed! Thanks for the post.
21 posted on 10/23/2003 9:15:08 PM PDT by Dixielander
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To: webber
Damn those Bush tax cuts! If it weren't for them, this wouldn't be happening!
22 posted on 10/23/2003 9:15:23 PM PDT by concerned about politics ( Have you donated to the Salvation Army? Liberals HATE Christian organizations! Tax deductable, too)
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To: webber
Note to self :

1) add extra layers to Tinfoil Hat

2) unplug Transporter
23 posted on 10/23/2003 9:15:38 PM PDT by PoorMuttly (Muttly Axiom #2..."What cannot be eaten or sprayed, must be chased away.")
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To: webber
Signal propogation for low frequency AM radio signals should be at extreme levels when this coronal mass ejection hits the ionosphere.

I'm going to start warming up my radios and amps right now. I should be able to QSO with Hams in Europe on Friday night.

24 posted on 10/23/2003 9:16:22 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help)
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To: webber
Scientists say it may knock out electrical grids and satellite communications.

Creepy. I feel so vaunerable. (No FR?)

25 posted on 10/23/2003 9:17:14 PM PDT by concerned about politics ( Have you donated to the Salvation Army? Liberals HATE Christian organizations! Tax deductable, too)
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To: fuquadukie
http://members.yourlink.net/jgerard/gort/cinder.wav
26 posted on 10/23/2003 9:17:37 PM PDT by Samwise (There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil.)
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To: eddie willers
Not if they use cellphones, they won't. :-P
27 posted on 10/23/2003 9:18:15 PM PDT by explodingspleen
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To: GeronL
aluminum foil hat time? Maybe an umbrella?

Try a suit.

28 posted on 10/23/2003 9:19:08 PM PDT by uglybiker (Kill the old! Starve the young! TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH!)
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To: explodingspleen
Not if they use cellphones, they won't. :-P

Good idea!
I'll forward all the calls to MINE!

29 posted on 10/23/2003 9:19:46 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: Molly Pitcher; Jemian; Howlin; callisto; Iowa Granny; MozartLover; Miss Marple; Species8472; ...
ping
30 posted on 10/23/2003 9:19:52 PM PDT by kayak (The Vast, Right-Wing Conspiracy is truly Vast! [JohnHuang2])
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To: ChemistCat
Check out the pic on http://www.venhaus1.com/ - way cool.
31 posted on 10/23/2003 9:19:55 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Tag line produced using 100% post-consumer recycled ethernet packets,)
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To: uglybiker
well, thats a look I have been needing n my life
32 posted on 10/23/2003 9:20:24 PM PDT by GeronL (Please visit www.geocities.com/geronl)
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To: uglybiker
Try a suit.

This suit suits me better.


33 posted on 10/23/2003 9:20:47 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help)
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To: Exit148
And hugh.
34 posted on 10/23/2003 9:21:22 PM PDT by sd-joe
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To: Keith in Iowa
Way cool is putting THAT lightly!!!
35 posted on 10/23/2003 9:21:56 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Logan's Home! Logan's Home! Logan's Home! Logan's Home! Logan's Home!)
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To: webber
Same warnings have been issued on a regular basis for years.
36 posted on 10/23/2003 9:24:50 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
SCHWING!
37 posted on 10/23/2003 9:24:53 PM PDT by Poohbah ("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" -- Major Vic Deakins, USAF)
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To: ChemistCat
Supposedly we may be able to see some aurora borealis as far south as Texas, thanks to this storm.

Are you serious? I'm above you in Colorado (both on the map, re north, and also much higher altitude; but not necessarily in wisdom and stature), and I have never yet seen the Aurora Borealis. Since I live in Aurora, it would be cool to see the Auroras from here.

38 posted on 10/23/2003 9:24:59 PM PDT by fqued (The mainstream media wouldn't over-rate anyone, would they?)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Isn't that Barbara Reynolds, heiress of aluminum foil
tycoon M. Reynolds?

(nice box!)

 

39 posted on 10/23/2003 9:26:28 PM PDT by Deep_6
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To: webber
Any ETA here? Friday noon Eastern? 5 pm? 11 pm?
40 posted on 10/23/2003 9:26:29 PM PDT by Timesink
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