Posted on 09/28/2016 5:51:25 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
Solar storm heading towards Earth threatening to break your Sky TV and mobile phones (by Fri 09/30)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/715472/Solar-storm-Earth-break-Sky-TV-mobile-phones
SCIENCE
A HUGE solar storm is heading towards Earth which could leave us without mobile phones, satellite TV and even electricity. By Sean Martin 17:53, Wed, Sept 2016
A solar storm is heading towards Earth
Modern-day Britain could go into meltdown after scientists forecast the solar storm to hit between now and Friday which could wreak havoc with technology.
Solar storms affect Earth’s technology as radiation is thrown at the planet from the Sun.
While humans are protected from the radiation by the atmosphere, the rays can heat the outer atmosphere, causing it to expand which can affect satellites in orbit. That could lead to a lack of GPS navigation, mobile phone signal and satellite TV such as Sky.
Furthermore, higher currents in the magnetosphere – the Earth’s magnetic field – could lead to a surge of electricity in power lines, which can blow out electrical transformers and power stations leading to a temporary loss of electricity in a region – although this usually only occurs in areas that are in high altitude.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says a coronal hole has opened on the Sun, leading to a stream of solar particles hurtling towards Earth.
According to SpaceWeatherLive: “The magnetic field of a coronal hole is different than the rest of the Sun. Instead of returning to the surface, these magnetic field lines stay open and stretch out into space.”
As a result, Earth is expected to be hit by a swarm of particles in the coming days which, on a better note, could cause the Northern Lights to be visible.
Mauro Messerotti, from the University of Trieste the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) warned that the hole “extends for about 30 per cent of the disk of the sun” and that the structure “may persist for more than a month because these holes sometimes last for more than one full rotation of the sun, which lasts 28 days.”
Thank you blam.
Unfortunately calling for rain for the next couple of days here in Jersey.
The solar energy causes a build up of pressure within your cell phone thus causing it to explode.
You can prevent that pressure build up by taking a 1/16" drill bit and drilling a hole thru the back of the phone......
O noes, this is hughly sirus!
Good idea, you first ;n)
RE: “You can prevent that pressure build up by taking a 1/16” drill bit and drilling a hole thru the back of the phone.”
The internet kill switch will be activated with plausible deniability, using the solar storm as cover.
Maybe Hellary will ‘short circuit’ again ...
9 C-Class and 2 M-Class flares in the last 24 hours.
Volcanic activity likely to increase.
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