Powerful Solar Storm to Hit Earth by Wednesday

Space ^ | 1/18/05 | Robert Roy Britt

[ken21]

good gravy, can't we turn out shields toward the sun? like star trek? (/s)

[vger]

ooohhhh...weeeee....oooohhhh!

[vger]

Sorry your puny shields will have no effect on this one!

[ken21]

uh, dude, that's a big one!

[Army Air Corps]

Sorry, I drained the converter assembly while using my electric razor this morning. Sorry. :-)

[spinestein]

[good gravy, can't we turn out shields toward the sun? like star trek?]

YOU FOOL! That only works if you reverse the polarity of the flux capacitor!

[Army Air Corps]

It could simply be a glitch in the Matrix. We'll have to look at the environmental simulation subroutine.

[WideGlide]

I definitely had to "DOOM" this post.

[myprecious]

My Dish Network was kicked offline this morning. I called in for tech help. While I was waiting on hold the recording gave me the correct advice to unplug the powercord and plug it back in. They must have had a lot of calls to add that tip to the hold message. I hung up before the 10 minute wait for the techie. Must have been a big surge!

[F16Fighter]

Ten minutes? Not bad. At least you were able to through to Dish. Direct is a sob to get a hold of. Thanks for the advice -- tried that already though on BOTH TVs...

Since Sunday the Direct TV has been repeatedly kicked on and off, but according to the transponder test it's kicking on all cylinders.

[timestax]

[Barnacle]

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[backhoe]

The Sun has a Thousand Faces--- Thread 3

[HarryDog]

I have been having the same problem with Direct. I have called and called and finally got through. According to the lady that I talked to the problem is due to changes at Direct. The problem only is with certain brands of recievers. They are working on it and hope to have it fixed soon. If it gets too bad do a reset but that will only help for a little while.

[F16Fighter]

Thank Harry...So it IS their problem?? Thought so.

I'd called Direct TV this morning and they tried to tell me the problem may be "loose connections." On BOTH TVs?? Idiots!

[fish hawk]

I told you the sky was falling, but did you listen? No.

[RightWhale]

Sky has been clear for three days. Aurora is nothing special. It's there, but faint.