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A “moderate to strong” solar storm is on its way to Earth Friday. An erupting sunspot has unleashed three solar flares in as many days, the third particularly potent.

SpaceWeather.com offers this detail: “The latest blast at 0357 UT on August 4th [11:57 p.m. EDT August 3] registered M9.3 on the Richter Scale of Flares, almost crossing the threshold into X-territory (X-flares are the most powerful kind).”

This flare has produced a cloud of charged particles known as a coronal mass ejection (CME) moving at a trail blazing speed of over four million miles per hour (according to SpaceWeather.com). SpaceWeather.com reports it will “sweep up” the two prior CMEs and reach Earth around 9:55 a.m. EDT plus or minus seven hours.

NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center describes it this way: “real anticipation for the first of what may be three convergent shocks to slam the geomagnetic field in the next twelve hours . .. Two impacts are expected G2 (Moderate) to G3 (Strong) Geomagnetic Storming on August 5, and potentially elevated protons to the S2 (Moderate) Solar Radiation Storm condition”

In short, this solar activity could upset electronic equipment, particularly in space. NASA tweeted that auroras may be viewable as far south as Pennsylvania Friday night.

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Wanktious said:

I hope it comes and burns me alive

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makaveli8x8 said:

shouldn't there be like radiation warnings n shit over this?  why isn't this on tv, if u can see auroras in the sky your pretty much seeing the radiation hitting the ozone or w/e, this sounds like a pretty big one that might leech alot of rads ?

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makaveli8x8 said:

shouldn't there be like radiation warnings n shit over this?  why isn't this on tv, if u can see auroras in the sky your pretty much seeing the radiation hitting the ozone or w/e, this sounds like a pretty big one that might leech alot of rads ?

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indica said:

edit: wrong article


fuck it...

nah should be safe man, if anything you might want to put on a though

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I think that was the right article, but yeah, if a makes makievelli feel safer I'm sure it won't hurt him.. except maybe socially :P

makaveli8x8 said:

id feel better if we could find a hat for earth

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I like it. Can we start by covering the Ireland in foil so we get baked jacket potatoes  IN BULK?

indica said:

makaveli8x8 said:

id feel better if we could find a hat for earth

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I like it. Can we start by covering the Ireland in foil so we get baked jacket potatoes  IN BULK?

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