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NASA satellites capture massive 'Doomsday machine' solar flare
https://www.econotimes.com ^ | Monday, October 26, 2020 4:26 PM UTC | Staff

Posted on 11/16/2020 8:03:02 AM PST by Red Badger

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Solar flares are a usual occurrence in space and its side effects are usually experienced by the nearest planets in the system, like our own Earth. Recently, NASA satellites were able to capture one particular solar flare, that some have described to be something out of science fiction.

Agency satellite data found that the Sun experienced a CME or coronal mass ejection that is also known as a solar flare, shooting out plasma and magnetism. This happens when magnetism becomes unstable on the solar surface. The massive explosion was captured by NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft or SOHO. The image of the explosion was described by some as the stuff of science fiction, specifically the Doomsday machine from Star Trek. Fortunately, the CME did not hit Earth. In case it would hit our planet, it would mostly result in auroras in either the northern or southern polar regions.

“A Doomsday Machine-shaped coronal mass ejection (CME) rocketed away from the sun during the early hours of October 24,” said Space Weather. “It will not hit Earth. The source of the blast was a filament of magnetism near the Sun’s northeastern limb, which became unstable and exploded.”

Auroras are produced when magnetic particles from the Sun hit the magnetosphere and are deflected. These result in the blue and green lights in the sky, sometimes red and yellow. A more severe side effect of solar flares hitting our magnetosphere would be an overload of electricity in electrical grids due to high currents in the magnetic field.

Meanwhile, NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured galaxies NGC 2799 and NGC 2798 in the early stages of a merger with the latter galaxy being the much bigger star system. NASA has revealed that despite the two galaxies looking like they are on the verge of colliding into one another, it would actually take billions of years before the galaxies fully merge.

“Interacting galaxies, such as these, are so named because of the influence they have on each other, which may eventually result in a merger or unique formation,” said NASA. “Already, these two galaxies have seemingly formed a sideways waterspout with stars from NGC 2799 appearing to fall into NGC 2798 almost like drops of water.”



TOPICS: Astronomy; Business/Economy; History; Science
KEYWORDS: carringtonevent; cme; coronalmassejection; doomsdaymachine; mattdecker; sida; startrek
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To: cuban leaf

No, but the condenser might.....................


21 posted on 11/16/2020 8:28:56 AM PST by Red Badger (Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
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To: left that other site

So-called Systemic Racism is aimed at making people believe that there will never be Supremely Systemic Light.

Another way of putting that, is: The Clintons, Podestas, Blumethals, and Ben Rhodes et al’s desire to lower other people’s standards to the utopian bliss of fascist-socialism, requires tossing our Bill of Rights.


22 posted on 11/16/2020 8:30:09 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Pollard

I think it very much will be. Most cars can’t handle something like that. Maybe modern transformers can handle it.


23 posted on 11/16/2020 8:30:34 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Red Badger

Dang! I prolly should get one from Amazon while I’m thinking about it. ;)


24 posted on 11/16/2020 8:31:34 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: dp0622


25 posted on 11/16/2020 8:31:53 AM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: Red Badger

When my son was in college, he worked at NASA on the SOHO mission. He was a data technician, taking pictures such as these from a million miles away.

The SOHO is a huge success for ESA and NASA. It launched over 20 years ago for a two year mission and is still operational.


26 posted on 11/16/2020 8:32:39 AM PST by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: fidelis

LOL

. I’m going to ram her right down that thing’s throat!

Still, my favorite line is

“IT WAS, BUT NOT ANYMORE!!”

:)


27 posted on 11/16/2020 8:34:41 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: cuban leaf

Will I have to replace my points?“

And the rotor and the coil. The parts are going cost you.


28 posted on 11/16/2020 8:49:24 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: DannyTN; cuban leaf

Found these on my porch this morning - - What could it possibly mean?

29 posted on 11/16/2020 8:55:49 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: linMcHlp

Indeed.


30 posted on 11/16/2020 8:56:15 AM PST by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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To: Pollard

If my memory serves me correctly, there was a major CME in 1978 that exploded a lot of transformers in Canada.


31 posted on 11/16/2020 9:02:36 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Red Badger


32 posted on 11/16/2020 9:04:12 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: Hatteras

Don’t know what that is...................


33 posted on 11/16/2020 9:05:47 AM PST by Red Badger (Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
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To: Red Badger

Sustainability News
The 12 Biggest Electrical Blackouts In History
9th November 2016 Sustainability News

The 12 Biggest Electrical Blackouts In History

On July 13, 1977, a power outage in New York City pushed its residents to the brink. Frustration with a failing economy, anxiety over the at-large serial killer Son of Sam, and a sweltering summer day and night resulted in mass looting across the city. It wasn’t all bad news, however; legend has it that the stealing of DJ equipment from hi-fi stores propelled DJ culture and hip hop music in the city. But the city was no stranger to being forced into darkness

Fifty years ago today, The Great Northeast Blackout affected approximately 30 million people in both the U.S. and Canada, making it the single biggest power failure in U.S. history at the time. In remembrance of its 50th anniversary, here are 12 of the biggest power failures around the world.

1. NORTHEAST UNITED STATES AND NORTHERN CANADA // NOVEMBER 9, 1965
A faulty relay at Sir Adam Beck Station on the Ontario side of Niagara Falls led to what was then the biggest power failure in U.S. history. At 5:16 p.m., the tripping of a 230-kilovolt transmission line began a domino effect resulting in a surge of power that overwhelmed transmission lines and put New York City in the dark at the height of a Tuesday rush hour. 800,000 people were reported trapped in the subway.

In addition to New York, power overloads and automatic system shutdowns affected 30 million people in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire,Vermont, Quebec, and Ontario. 10,000 National Guardsmen and 5,000 off-duty police officers were called into service to prevent looting, although it turned out to be relatively calm and peaceful. Power was restored for most people within 13 hours.

2. THAILAND NATIONWIDE BLACKOUT // MARCH 18, 1978
When generators in the South Pranakhorn Powerplant in Samut Prakan failed, a nationwide blackout spread throughout Thailand. It would be over nine hours before authorities were able to restore power. In May 2013, Thailand suffered another major power failure, sparking memories of the massive incident of ’78.

3. CANADA’S GEOMAGNETIC STORM // MARCH 13, 1989
On March 13, 1989 the entire province of Quebec, Canada suffered an electrical power blackout lasting 12 hours—and it was all thanks to the sun.

Sometimes, the sun emits billion-ton clouds of ionized gas, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME). On March 10, 1989, a CME “about the size of 36 Earths” and equivalent to “the energy of thousands of nuclear bombs exploding at the same time” escaped. On the 12th, the gas cloud crashed against Earth’s magnetosphere and caused the Northern Lights to be seen as far south as Texas and Cuba.

Because of this celestial event, six million Quebec residents were thrust into darkness when the province’s power grid lost power. Schools and businesses were forced to close during the 12 hour blackout, as well as the Montreal Metro and Dorval Airport.

4. SOUTHERN BRAZIL // MARCH 11, 1999
In 1999, approximately 97 million of the 160 million people living in Brazil lost power in what was the biggest blackout ever at the time. A bolt of lightning struck an electricity substation, which in turn shut down Itaipu, which was the largest power plant in the world.

1,200 military police officers were placed in Rio to avoid looting, while city tunnels in São Paulo were closed to prevent assaults. 60,000 subway riders were heavily inconvenienced. To make matters more complicated, the power system of Brazil was privatized days before the event. Mines and Energy Minister Rodolpho Tourinho assured that this had nothing to do with the outage, saying, “A lightning bolt is an exceptional fact, there is no reason for doubting the reliability of the Brazilian electrical system.”

5. INDIA // JANUARY 2, 2001
A 12-hour power outage caused by a failure of an Uttar Pradesh substation triggered India’s northern grid to collapse. This affected about 226 million people, or roughly a quarter of the country’s population. The Confederation of Indian Industry estimated that the loss to business amounted to about $107.1 million.

Despite economic expansion in India, the blackout was used by some as an excuse to push for privatization of the electrical industry to bring it up to date. Enron was reported to have been contacted to help supply electricity during the crisis but insisted on a price that was three times higher than usual.

6. NORTHEAST UNITED STATES AND CANADA // AUGUST 14-15, 2003
It took months before the real cause of the Northeast Blackout of 2003 was finally determined. Initially, Canadian Defense Minister John McCallum blamed an outage at a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, which the state’s Emergency Management Agency denied. What actually happened was a high-voltage power line in Northern Ohio brushed against overgrown trees, causing it to shut down. When the alarm system that would typically alert FirstEnergy Corporation failed, the incident was ignored. In the next 90 minutes, system operators tried to figure out what happened while three other lines switched off as a consequence of the first line’s failure.

This started a domino effect, and by 4:05 p.m. Southeast Canada and eight Northeastern U.S. states were without power. 50 million people were inconvenienced for up to two days in what turned out to be the biggest blackout in North American history. 11 people died and there was a reported $6 billion in damages. The incident prompted the creation of a joint task force between the U.S. and Canada to minimize future blackouts.

7. ITALY // SEPTEMBER 28, 2003
Italy’s 2003 blackout affected almost all of the country’s 57 million people. Usually a middle-of-the-night power outage means that few people will notice it. However, this event occurred during the early morning hours after Rome’s Nuit Blanche, an all-night arts festival. Because of this, trains were still running at 3:01 a.m. when a fault on the Swiss power system caused the overloading of two internal lines near to the Italian border. About 110 trains carrying more than 30,000 passengers were stranded as a result.

8. JAVA AND BALI, INDONESIA // AUGUST 18, 2005
At 10:23 a.m. on a Thursday morning, a failure in a 500 kilovolt transmission line between Cilegon and Saguling in West Java cut electricity supplies, leading to a massive 5,000 megawatt shutdown. Jakarta, the capital of the fourth most populated country in the world, lost power, and half of the Indonesian population — 100 million people — were without electricity for almost 11 hours.

The event didn’t come completely without warning. The state power company had been struggling to fulfill electricity demand following the 1997 monetary crisis and, one year earlier, the government held a special energy summit to plan for increasing the country’s electrical capacity.

9. GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, AND SPAIN // NOVEMBER 4, 2006
When German power company switched off a high-voltage line across the River Ems in order to let a cruise ship pass, 10-15 million Europeans lost power. The company said that the problems began in northwestern Germany when its network became overloaded, possibly due to that manual switch off (although transmission lines had been shut down in the past without incident). The blackouts stopped trains in Germany and trapped dozens of people in elevators in France and Italy. Austria, Belgium, and Spain were also affected by the outage.

10. CHENZHOU, CHINA // JANUARY 24 – FEBRUARY 2008
Winter storms resulted in a nearly two-week blackout for 4.6 million people around the central Chinese city of Chenzhou. Frustratingly, many citizens were without power during Chinese New Year celebrations. Some residents told reporters that they had to walk one kilometer to a well and back in freezing temperatures just to procure water. The official Xinhua News Agencysaid 11 electricians died while working to restore power, and the storm’s death toll exceeded 60.

11. BRAZIL AND PARAGUAY // NOVEMBER 10-11, 2009
When the Itapiu hydroelectric dam on the Paraguay-Brazil border suddenly stopped producing 17,000 megawatts of power, outages quickly spread through both countries. Suspiciously, the blackouts came two days after 60 Minutes reported that previous Brazilian power outages were caused by hackers. The CBS news magazine would later report that the 2009 incident was also the work of hackers, but a Wikileaks document would eventually refute that claim.

To prevent hacking, a voice command was now necessary to disrupt the power system, and access was only given to a small group of authorized operators. Any sabotage from internal employees would be deadly to the saboteur, and investigators would have found “physical evidence, including the body of the perpetrator,” had the 2009 incident been the work of foul play.

12. INDIA // JULY 30-31, 2012
In the largest electrical outage in history (so far), the July 31st blackout of India affected an area encompassing about 670 million people, which is around 9% of the world’s population. On the 31st, three of the country’s interconnected northern power grids collapsed for several hours, affecting 22 states from the country’s Eastern border with Myanmar to its western border with Pakistan.

Citizens of Delhi dealt with 89% humidity and, in West Bengal, hundreds of miners were trapped underground for hours after their lifts broke down. In the most disturbing and vivid detail, The Guardian reported that electric crematoriums stopped operating, some with bodies left half burnt before wood was brought in to stoke the furnaces. Overloading and human error were eventually blamed for the troubles.


34 posted on 11/16/2020 9:07:45 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Red Badger

Every time I see the word "doom" used in virtually every inane context, I think of this oldie but goodie Fed Ex commercial...

35 posted on 11/16/2020 9:10:54 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: Vermont Lt

Yep, check out the solar flare in 1859. Melted telegraph wires. Imagine the damage it would do today.


36 posted on 11/16/2020 9:12:22 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: Red Badger

The main concern with an EMP burst from the sun are the grids and unprotected computer systems. Everything runs on digital computers. Theoretically analog computers would not be as vulnerable to an EMP. A modern cars computer exposed to an EMP would most likely fry. Military grade items are being built with some protections. The average household would lose power, electronics and communications. Of course that would take a massive burst, there have been a few large scale burst, but nothing on the zombie apocalypse scale that some doomsday types predict. That does not mean it could not happen. Just like an asteroid strike, you shouldn’t live your life worried everyday about it.


37 posted on 11/16/2020 9:13:55 AM PST by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angles will sing for me)
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To: Red Badger

AGW pales before a CME that can destroy species on Earth with a single event like this. The energy is that of several millions of hydrogen bombs. Survivors would only be found in caves, if any. If the atmosphere doesn’t burn off ...


38 posted on 11/16/2020 9:21:09 AM PST by RideForever (We were born to be tested)
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To: C210N

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

They say there was sparking off telegraph poles.


39 posted on 11/16/2020 9:21:59 AM PST by Reily
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To: oldasrocks

Yep, check out the solar flare in 1859. Melted telegraph wires. Imagine the damage it would do today.

that would be an ACTUAL "Great Reset"

40 posted on 11/16/2020 9:29:36 AM PST by montag813
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