Posted on 06/22/2022 4:12:01 PM PDT by week 71
A massive sunspot has been spotted on our sun that looks directly at Earth
The sunspot doubled in size over just a 24-hour period
Experts say it could possibly send out medium-class flares in the near future.
A dark sunspot that is facing directly toward Earth doubled in size in just a 24-hour period and could possibly send out medium-class flares in the near future.
Tony Phillips, the author of SpaceWeather.com, wrote on Wednesday: ‘Yesterday, sunspot AR3038 was big. Today, it's enormous.’
And it is now said to measure three times the size of Earth.
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Huge sunspot, solar flares... My fears are sparked!
By the way-thanks to you folks who drive those trucks everywhere. Our life is dependent on people like you, and we all take it completely for granted.
I know-it is like an offensive lineman in football. In almost all cases, the fact you don’t know their name is often a good thing...and bad when you do hear it.
But just let those offensive linemen not do their jobs-boom-someone like the quarterback get creamed.
Same with Truckers, I guess...in a way.
Bkmk
Earth moves (relative to the sun) 1.5 million miles a day and the sun revolves on its axis every 29 days (+/-2). So this is obvious pamic-mongering BS.
-PJ
I’m concerned about flares coming from Uranus.
You're a smart one you are. They say shutting down the grid early will save us and we'll just have to take their word for it. "Just give us 15 days"
Here we go the Fear Factor again
Welcome to Solar Cycle 25! We’ll hit solar max in about 5 years, then head for minimum.
Speak for Urself, Equine.
It’s called the uniparty
Time to repeal the 17th Amendment
i hope so
No kidding. This is my first year taking it seriously, starting 20 different things from seed with heat mats and lights, potting up, planting out. I usually buy plants and seed potatoes and that’s it. Figured out my seed starting and planting out dates.
Mid June, 96-99 degrees when it’s normally mid to high 80s.
Been fun. /s
Only thing that saved me a bit is mulch and my 4pm shade trees.
The size or number of sunspots is not a very reliable indicator of risk of a major solar flare. They can happen at various times during solar cycles and may not be associated with massive sunspots. The 1947 cycle had some famously large sunspots and did not unleash the worst flares, while the modern record set in 1989 came during a more moderate sunspot peak. The Carrington event (Sep 2, 1859) would fry modern electronics and prove to be a major disaster, and it was associated with a relatively tame solar cycle (granted it was near the peak of that one).
Luckily we were only as far along the technology pathway as the telegraph system which was badly damaged by the electric charges created. A less volatile event in 1911 did similar damage because there was more infrastructure of more complexity. The 1989 event knocked the Quebec electric grid out of service which had a ripple effect throughout eastern North America.
If we get a Carrington 2.0, it will be no laughing matter. And we are basically not that prepared. In 2012 we avoided that catastrophic result because a similar flare was directed away from the earth at right angles to our position in the solar system (that one basically shot straight left from the Sun as viewed from earth).
How much longer will be lucky? Maybe the question we should really ask is, when will our governments and electric utilities have a solution in place to set into motion? These flares are not instantaneous, we get a certain amount of warning up to 24h in advance (they had no idea what solar flares were in 1859 and astronomers were just beginning to study them).
I enjoy doom porn as much as anybody but I treat it like a ghost story, I find it entertaining without taking it as fact.
Haha, same here. I’m praying it’s vaxxed zombies first (slow ones), then aliens, then they can hit us with the emps and blame the sun, then it’s just fun for the whole family!
Scary how much we think alike.
You need to ask where are Americans? There’s no political solution to our woes.
Ya, I tried being local. It’s too corrupt. You’re better off to find locals who think like you do and build a support network.
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