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Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127001.300-space-storm-alert-90-seconds-from-catastrophe.html?full=true&print=true ^

Posted on 03/27/2009 4:38:36 PM PDT by chessplayer

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To: listenhillary; Girlene

No Smoking Allowed. Or it will be like the day after an all-you-can-eat jalapeno feed...


41 posted on 03/28/2009 6:56:23 AM PDT by bigheadfred (Negromancer !!! RUN for your lives !!!)
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To: bigheadfred

LOL.


42 posted on 03/28/2009 7:00:57 AM PDT by Girlene (Got Tea?)
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To: Girlene; listenhillary

Laugh now. Light a match and you’ll be SPRINTING for the Ben and Jerry’s.


43 posted on 03/28/2009 7:05:02 AM PDT by bigheadfred (Negromancer !!! RUN for your lives !!!)
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Ben and Jerry’s? Maybe if I want a milkshake (all their ice cream will have melted).


44 posted on 03/28/2009 7:22:03 AM PDT by Girlene (Got Tea?)
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To: Girlene

I guess you haven’t heard. We are heading for an ice age. Besides, I was just alluding that you will be seeking something cold to SIT on.


45 posted on 03/28/2009 7:26:24 AM PDT by bigheadfred (Negromancer !!! RUN for your lives !!!)
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To: DevNet
A CME hitting power grids? Oh NOOOOOOOOOOsssss.....

CMEs occur every solar cycle. The last big one was in 2004. I had a power strip blow up at work. Time to repair was about 10 min.s to locate and plug in another one. The generators just fluttered.

Do you realize power gen facilities have electronic circuit breakers for just this purpose? Do you really think they spend 10s of millions of dollars on a generator but neglect electronic breakers and protection circuits? CMEs have been occurring since the dawn of time; certainly spanning the development and deployment period of current equipment. You don't think generators and power grids are built for that? None would have lasted more than 15 years if they weren't.

The author is looking for $$$. Get it?

46 posted on 03/28/2009 7:45:04 AM PDT by Justa
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To: geege

Awesome. Now that I’m studying Astronomy, everything about the sky is fascinating. I don’t look at anything the same anymore.

Have you seen the documentary called “The Star of Bethlehem?”


47 posted on 03/28/2009 8:06:24 AM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: Justa

If you had read the 132 page report you would know that what you are saying is divergent from reality.

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12507


48 posted on 03/28/2009 10:00:04 AM PDT by DevNet (What's past is prologue)
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