Death and Destruction Await!

[Brian R.]

Received this message a few minutes ago:

BE AWARE THAT A POSSIBLE STRONG GEOMAGNETIC STORM IS
HEADED TOWARDS THE EARTH AND IS EXPECTED TO REACH EARTH FRIDAY
AFTERNOON OCTOBER 24, 2003. THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF OUTAGES
AND INTERRUPTIONS OF CELL PHONE AND PAGER SERVICE BECAUSE OF
ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE. SATELLITES ARE ALSO VERY VULNERABLE
TO SOLAR ACTIVITY. SOLAR ACTIVITY IS RATED ON A SCALE OF 1 TO 5
WITH 5 BEING THE MOST INTENSE. THE STORM APPROACHING IS
EXPECTED TO BE A 3, OR MODERATE.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS INCIDENT visit...

http://www.emergencyemail.org/solar2003oct.html

A "Space Weather Advisory"

[Greebe]

and that's the CME from sunspot 484, wait for the class 5 that'll hit about 16 hours later from spot 486 (glancing blow)

FYI class 5 bursts are larger than the sun itself... was looking at one the other night that extended all the way out to Venus back in... '00 I believe (been looking at alot of these lately)

B, NASA sent that one out yesterday. But even they are a bit slow to the punch at times. What good is an alert if informed after the fact? Exactly

http://www.spaceweather.com

[Jon P. Inghram]

And annoyingly, the SEC's site has been so slow as to be virtually useless for the last few days. Here is a site that has direct links to the important data.

[Greebe]

her's another (slow loading)

http://www.spacew.com

and the full story from NOAA

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2003/s2104.htm

[Dr Mordrid]

What's weird about this is that we're ~3.5 years past solar max.

Dr. Mordrid

[Jon P. Inghram]

The solar cycle isn't exactly a smooth curve.

[Greebe]

LOL Rudy Baktiar of CNN Headline News musta had something else on her mind with...

Coronal Mass Injection

GAWD I hope she doesn't hang around Jord!

[The PIT]

Well teletext this morning Damp Squib and expected interferance didn't materilise.

[Greebe]

I heard Satellite cell phones were affected on Mt. Everest.

Hey climb down from there, it's not safe and the sky is falling

[SpiralDragon]

this explains my eratic behaviour on friday

[KvHagedorn]

Originally posted by SpiralDragon
this explains my eratic behaviour on friday

Now you just have to come up with an explanation for all the other days.

[Technoid]

minute amounts of biological warfare agents

That'll explan everything

[The PIT]

Just made the news tonight more big solar flares on the way. Northern lights maybe visable across the whole of Britain. I checked the forecast and it's rain for the next two days, although we need it, it could have waited a until the end of the week.

[ALBPM]

Coronal Mass Injection GAWD I hope she doesn't hang around Jord!

Er.... That's my line Dammit!!!!

[Jon P. Inghram]

They were jumping the gun, just had a X17 flare that was pointed right at Earth.

http://www.sec.noaa.gov/today.html