NASA Issues WARNING: MASSIVE SOLAR FLARE RELEASED (S'OK THOUGH)

[HOLLYWOOD]

Expect possible disruptions to satellite communications...

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/sun-surfing.html

http://www.ksee24.com/home/Solar-Flare-123389073.html

http://www.solar-storm-warning.com/
Sun Releases Massive Solar Flare

By KSEE News


June 7, 2011 Updated Jun 7, 2011 at 2:11 PM PDT (Space.com) The sun unleashed a massive solar storm Tuesday in a dazzling eruption that kicked up a vast cloud of magnetic plasma that appeared to rain back down over half of the sun's entire surface, NASA scientists say.


The solar storm hit its peak at about 2:41 a.m. EDT, but the actual flare extended over a three-hour period, said C. Alex Young, a solar astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center who runs a website called The Sun Today, in a video describing the event.
"The sun produced a quite spectacular prominence eruption that had a solar flare and high-energy particles associated with it, but I've just never seen material released like this before," Young said. "It looks like somebody just kicked a giant clod of dirt into the air and then it fell back down."

An alert by the NOAA-operated Space Weather Prediction Center stated that the solar flare could create a strong geomagnetic storm on Wednesday from the event's coronal mass ejection (CME), an explosion of charged particles triggered by the flare. Geomagnetic storms can lead to stronger-than-normal displays of Earth's auroras, also known as the northern and southern lights.
"It's nothing we really have to worry about," Young said in his video. "It's just really, really beautiful."
The coronal mass ejection is directed at Earth and moving at about 3.1 million mph, SDO mission scientists said in a statement.

"Due to its angle, however, effects on Earth should be fairly small. Nevertheless, it may generate space weather effects here on Earth in a few days," they added.
In the SDO videos, the solar flare erupts from the lower right of the sun and triggers the intense coronal mass ejection, which blows plasma and particles high up into the sun's corona — its outer atmosphere — with some raining back down.
SDO mission scientists said the flare kicked up relatively cool gas and material.
"It is somewhat unique because at many places in the eruption there seems to be even cooler material —at temperatures less than 80,000 Kelvin," SDO scientists explained.
A temperature of 80,000 Kelvin is about 143,540 degrees Fahrenheit. The sun's corona typically has temperatures ranging from 900,000 degrees F to 10.8 million degrees F. It can reach tens of millions of degrees when a solar flare occurs.

 

[Napoleon's Shadow]

Time to break out the tin foil hat?

 

[Petar]

Good thing I'm already wearing my tinfoil codpiece, those things emit tons of radiation!

 

[kah13176]

I don't know what the hell you guys are talking about. This has nothing to do with conspiracy theories. Solar weather is real, and it can affect weather here on earth.

 

[Napoleon's Shadow]

I don't know what the hell you guys are talking about. This has nothing to do with conspiracy theories.

Ionized particles are often shielded against by a thin layer of metal (such as tin or aluminum foil). It's a Faraday Cage joke actually.

 

[mconder]

"IT'S SOOO BEATIFULLLL," as the fly makes it way into the soothing light that will be it's death. Zzssst.

 

[FrankRep]

Time to break out the tin foil hat?

Source is NASA.

 

[Carehn]

If this happened more then 8 minuets ago then its over by now.

 

[Carehn]

Source is NASA.

Just one more reason for the tin foil.

 

[UtahApocalypse]

there has been some substantial links over tome that large major earthquakes have occurred around the time of a CME impact

 

[libertybrewcity]

so what...this crap happens all the time

 

[kah13176]

so what...this crap happens all the time

Yeah it does, and it's usually pretty inconsequential. Pretty stupid how people call this a conspiracy though.

 

[Perry]

If this happened more then 8 minuets ago then its over by now.

If it were merely electromagnetic radiation like the suns rays that would be true. This is more than that. Actual physical particles that travel much slower than the speed of light are on their way to earth and it takes them over a day to reach earth traveling at a meager 3million mph.

 

[amonasro]

Doesn't the Earth's magnetic field protect us against solar radiation? Probably will make for some pretty good Northern Lights viewing though.

 

[Yieu]

No one is saying there is a conspiracy theory. As someone else noted, tin foil does not always mean conspiracy theory -- what do they line spacecraft with? Thin sheets of metal, which can block charged particles such as those ejected from the sun.

Also, as noted above, while the sun's light takes 8 minutes to get here, charged particles are not light so they travel much slower.

Doesn't the Earth's magnetic field protect us against solar radiation?

To a degree it does protect us, but it is not impermeable. A big enough CME with a direct hit on the planet could pass through and do some damage.

 

[Carehn]

If it were merely electromagnetic radiation like the suns rays that would be true. This is more than that. Actual physical particles that travel much slower than the speed of light are on their way to earth and it takes them over a day to reach earth traveling at a meager 3million mph.

Then i stand corrected but its still probably not a big deal. Im guessing it has happened before.

 

[Razmear]

Then i stand corrected but its still probably not a big deal. Im guessing it has happened before.

Satellites are the most vulnerable to these CME's, and with our military's over reliance on GPS it could impact their operations.
I'm not saying that the GPS system going down would not be a net plus for the planet as a result, but there are more concerns now then before we were so reliant on technology for our day to day activities.
btw, as I type this my Charter Cable TV is flickering on and off. There internet service is unaffected.

 

[Carehn]

Satellites are the most vulnerable to these CME's, and with our military's over reliance on GPS it could impact their operations.
I'm not saying that the GPS system going down would not be a net plus for the planet as a result, but there are more concerns now then before we were so reliant on technology for our day to day activities.
btw, as I type this my Charter Cable TV is flickering on and off. There internet service is unaffected.

My TV is doing the same and i am no where near SC. But it could be anything....
That would suck if the sun up and decided to Smack us down just for the fun of it.

 

[Razmear]

My TV is doing the same and i am no where near SC. But it could be anything....
That would suck if the sun up and decided to Smack us down just for the fun of it.

All the cable companies get their feeds via the same satellites. So if your experiencing it too, then we are seeing what the CME can do.

 

[TheDrakeMan]

Solar flares are real, but if it were a legitimate threat to us right now, it'd be all over the news.