Posted on 12/14/2006 1:37:46 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy
I was in Sweden for that solar storm. The aurora was bright enough to read by, and to this day I swear I heard it - sounded like a distant faint buzzing or sizzling sound. It was beautiful and eerie.
Darn, it's overcast. Maybe it will clear up later.
It hit several hours ago. I didnt notice the world come to an end. These things take time. It's slowly eating the ozone as we speak. Polar bears are being sucked through the ever widening hole. On the bright side, it's sucking out all the deadly co2, so global warming has been stopped. But you won't see Al Gore make any mention of it, and the polar bear people will say that these missing bears drowned.
So, don't stop sending money. Only your money can save the bears and the world.
/s
Here's something interesting regarding the "sound" the aurora makes . . .
Some people swear that they can occasionally hear sounds from aurora displays similar to what you've described. I read an article about an informal experiment that was done to determine how real these sounds were. A bunch of people were brought outside during a major aurora event -- half of them blindfolded and half of them not. Some of the people who weren't blindfolded reported hearing that hissing/cracking sound, but none of those who were blindfolded reported hearing anything.
Go figure, eh?
That would be about now.
My hair is standing on end, my watch is running backwards and my shoes are on fire.
Is that normal?
You'll be OK as long as your eyes don't start to glow.
What about x-ray vision?
Interesting. This afternoon we had a power 'glitch' at our central data center and several remote locations all at the same time. Some of our sites are miles apart. I thought it was very odd at the time, but didn't dwell on it.
We lost power on and off for about an hour around 2:30 pm CST. Every five minutes, the power would go off. We heard it was a widespread problem in Brentwood. It was a very unproductive hour!
George Bush hates astronauts.
Hey, good idea. But you might see some things that aren't so pretty. You could always check out Helen Thomas.
Maybe the people looking at the Northern Lights were hearing their brains cook ? Just kidding of course.
"Sliders" already did that show. (ala the "Simpsons Did It" on Southpark)....that's the show where they picked up the very-hot Kari Wuhrer as a cast member.....
It's for real. Apollo 17's (December 1972) crew would have perished due to the solar flares that occurred in August ...and fortunately waned..just earlier than their trip. As reported by NASA:
To die, you'd need to absorb, suddenly, 300 rem or more.The key word is suddenly. You can get 300 rem spread out over a number of days or weeks with little effect. Spreading the dose gives the body time to repair and replace its own damaged cells. But if that 300 rem comes all at once ... "we estimate that 50% of people exposed would die within 60 days without medical care," says Cucinotta.
Such doses from a solar flare are possible. To wit: the legendary solar storm of August 1972.
It's legendary (at NASA) because it happened during the Apollo program when astronauts were going back and forth to the Moon regularly. At the time, the crew of Apollo 16 had just returned to Earth in April while the crew of Apollo 17 was preparing for a moon-landing in December. Luckily, everyone was safely on Earth when the sun went haywire.
"A large sunspot appeared on August 2, 1972, and for the next 10 days it erupted again and again," recalls Hathaway. The spate of explosions caused, "a proton storm much worse than the one we've just experienced," adds Cucinotta. Researchers have been studying it ever since.
Cucinotta estimates that a moonwalker caught in the August 1972 storm might have absorbed 400 rem.
I think we both need therapy.LOL!
Solar storm alert.
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