Posted on 07/26/2010 10:10:08 AM PDT by TaraP
If there was e.g. a solar flare that was going to destroy all life: we’d have ~ 40 hours warning of the oncoming proton shock.Time enough for most people to find their way back to their old elementary schools and duck down under their desks.
Good question. The answer is "maybe". If there were indeed some kind of world-ending flare activity in the offing, one way to think of it would be as a flamethrower nozzle pointed at 90 degrees out of the Sun.
If the flamethrower is currently 'on' then we could indeed see it. Oh heavens yes. But we might just be watching, so-to-speak, the pilot light on Ripley's flamer, and the whole gun is just swinging lazily into position...
The sun will be darkened,
and the moon will turn red as blood
before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.
Malachi 4:1
Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire," says the LORD Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them.
Here’s the whole thing ~ stereo ahead/stereo behind portrayed as a sphere: http://www.solarcycle24.com/stereosphere.htm
Thanks for that link muawiyah.
Wow!It looks like the sun is finally waking from the lull in its sunspot cycle.
40 hours? Bonus...I've been prepping for years on how to spend my last thirty minutes on earth in the event of a nuclear attack (involves a liquor store and a hot babe, preferably my wife); now I find out I may have an EXTRA 39.5???
Par-tay!
So my question to all is: If I want to protect my microwave popcorn should I put it in a Faraday Cage?
“2012” I saw that too!
With Woody Harrelson as a screwball internet impresario. Man, that was a stretch wasn’t it? (And `President Danny Glover’). And did you notice that John Cusack bears a strong resemblance to a Norwegian wharf rat if viewed from the right angle?
Yep, the Dims took that Mayan prediction and ran with it, from the people who thought the moon gobbled up the sun unless they lopped off enough heads.
In my film ("Death Flare: 40 hours to save the Earth", not currently green-lit by Hollywood for some reason) my protagonist will be berating the Congress and Senate about the dangers of the oncoming solar wind.
They won't listen to him - of course. So the scene will end with him banging Pelosi's head on a desk, yelling "We'll be the popcorn! We'll be the popcorn!!!"
Sounds like the plot to a B-grade sci-fi flick.
Yes, for high frequency propogation over 7 MHZ. It is probably accompanied with "unstable geomagnetic activity". Depending on the level of ioniozation we could have some signals up into the VHF spectrum reflected back from the ionosphere. It is about time, it has been a long quiet spell in this sunspot cycle.
It’s a brown spot by the sun. Looks like a host. Does anybody else see it? /CBEG
That's because it's ass-backwards, dead.
Shouldn’t that be /CGEB? LOL
You’re correct. It was “Green,” not “Brown.”
Oh! And my favorite part (one of many) was when they were stranded in the mountains of China during a massive snow storm and all they were wearing was a hoodie or a suit coat and they were not cold at all!
And what fitting end to Woody! I couldn't think of anything better for a liberal hollywierd actor than to be turned into dust by a volcano.
LOL - I was trying to be polite!
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