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Sun Fires Off 2 Huge Solar Flares in One-Two Punch
Space.Com via Yahoo ^ | 6 March 2012 | Tariq Malik

Posted on 03/07/2012 10:16:15 AM PST by Bill Buckner

The sun unleashed a cosmic double whammy Tuesday (March 6), erupting with two major flares to cap a busy day of powerful solar storms. One of the flares is the most powerful solar eruption of the year, so far.

Both of the huge flares ranked as X-class storms, the strongest type of solar flares the sun can have. They followed several weaker, but still powerful, sun storms on Tuesday and came just days after another major solar flare on Sunday night.

... It is the strongest solar flare yet for 2012.

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"First-look data from Stereo-B are not sufficient to determine if the cloud is heading for Earth," astronomer Tony Phillips wrote on his website Spaceweather.com, which monitors space weather events. "Our best guess is 'probably, yes, but not directly toward Earth.' A glancing blow to our planet's magnetosphere is possible on March 8th or 9th." [Worst Solar Storms in History]

Astronomers rank solar flares by strength using five categories: A, B, C, M and X. The A-class flares are the weakest sun storms, while the X-class events are the most powerful solar flares.

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Tuesday's X-class solar flares followed a string of other eruptions that included M-class and C-class events, space weather officials said. Both of the day's X-class sun storms were stronger than the X1.1 solar flare of March 5.

Prior to this week, the only huge solar flare of 2012 occurred on Jan. 27, when the sun unleashed an X1.7-class eruption.

The sun is currently going through an active phase of its 11-year weather cycle. The current cycle is known as Solar Cycle 24 and is expected to reach its peak level of activity in 2013, NASA officials have said.

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Serious Question - I'm getting ready to drywall my garage. If I put large sheets of aluminum screens up before the drywall, would that give me 'tempest' like protection?

The 'boss' thinks i'm crazy - she always does ...

1 posted on 03/07/2012 10:16:19 AM PST by Bill Buckner
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To: Bill Buckner
Connect them all and ground it will probably offer some protection.

However, you'll still die when the starving masses arrive.

2 posted on 03/07/2012 10:21:59 AM PST by blam
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To: Bill Buckner

God prepping the electronic battlefield for Israel...


3 posted on 03/07/2012 10:23:52 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Bill Buckner

I’m assuming that my tinfoil hat will be all the protection I will require to avoid sunburn, and I’m also assuming that you don’t spend much time bar hopping in the Boston area.. Do you Bill?


4 posted on 03/07/2012 10:26:21 AM PST by jerod (They were Socialist, Pro-Abortionist, Gun Control Nuts & Excessive Environmentalist -the NAZI party)
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To: Bill Buckner

My neighbor has barbed wire around his field. I suspect it is a FEMA concentration camp.


5 posted on 03/07/2012 10:33:31 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: Bill Buckner

it couldnt hurt!

Seriously though - look up ‘Faraday Cage’ online and that should give you some answers

My house is metal-lathe and plaster on the interior walls and I have a heck of a time getting cell phone connection and/or using wireless phone inside the house


6 posted on 03/07/2012 10:34:56 AM PST by Mr. K (Were the Soviet-Era propagandists as gleefully willing as our Lame-stream Media?)
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To: blam

ROFLOL !!!


7 posted on 03/07/2012 10:39:57 AM PST by Bill Buckner
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This article states that a glancing blow is possible tomorrow or the day after but I’d read something this morning that said the ejections directly aimed at earth. Coud be an interesting couple fo days...I’d like to see the aurora borealis from my front yard.


8 posted on 03/07/2012 10:43:46 AM PST by pgkdan (Rick Santorum 2012. Conservative's last, best chance!)
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To: lonevoice

ping


9 posted on 03/07/2012 10:44:28 AM PST by Pride in the USA
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To: jerod
Stay safe!
10 posted on 03/07/2012 10:50:12 AM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: Bill Buckner

She’s right. Only lead will shield you from the robot zombies with X-ray vision.


11 posted on 03/07/2012 10:58:28 AM PST by tumblindice (Baby made boom boom)
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To: Bill Buckner
Auroral forecast (realtime) available here:

http://helios.swpc.noaa.gov/ovation

12 posted on 03/07/2012 11:01:26 AM PST by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini--nevertheless, Vote Santorum!)
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To: Bill Buckner
A, B, C, M and X. The A-class flares are the weakest sun storms, while the X-class events are the most powerful solar flares.

If we've had three X-class storms already this year, it would seem that the highest level on the scale is far too common to record truly extraordinary events.

13 posted on 03/07/2012 11:03:16 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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I’d like to see the aurora borealis from my front yard

Sounds like you might be able to see it from your basement :)

14 posted on 03/07/2012 11:14:02 AM PST by Bill Buckner
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To: dead

A,B,C,M, and X refer to the ‘type’ or energy spectrum of the Rays. X-rays are the most dangerous to humans.


15 posted on 03/07/2012 12:21:13 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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OK, that is not at all clear from the article. They compare the scale to the Richter scale in that B is ten times stronger than A, and C is one hundred times stronger than A, etc.


16 posted on 03/07/2012 12:42:15 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead
OK, that is not at all clear from the article.

Well.... they're not exactly rocket scientists.

17 posted on 03/07/2012 1:04:26 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: AppyPappy

Who told you that I built my own FEMA camp?


18 posted on 03/07/2012 2:24:46 PM PST by Sarajevo (Money cannot buy happiness, but it's more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes than on a bicycle.)
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To: Bill Buckner
Shiny side out, to reflect; shiny side in to cook.

Maybe kill two birds, and use foil-faced insulation. The shiny side of it, though would go to the inside to retain heat, so it would have to be installed backwards to have the shiny side out.

In any case, don't forget the lead copper shingles, and run a ground cable.

19 posted on 03/07/2012 4:56:09 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (If any of their "Alternatives" actually works, the Greenies will proceed to kill it.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Can’t believe nobody had pinged you to this yet. ;-)


20 posted on 03/07/2012 5:00:30 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (If any of their "Alternatives" actually works, the Greenies will proceed to kill it.)
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