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NASA warns major solar storm set to cause blackouts on Earth
Daily Mail ^ | 5/20/25 | OSHEEN YADAV

Posted on 05/20/2025 5:13:57 PM PDT by week 71

A massive solar storm is heading toward Earth, threatening to disrupt communications, navigation systems, and power grids around the world.

NASA issued the warning after a powerful burst of energy from the sun last week, which measured as an X2.7-class solar flare, the highest category for solar flares.

Solar flares are intense bursts of radiation that come from sunspots — darker, cooler areas on the sun's surface — and are among the most powerful explosions in the solar system. These flares can last from a few minutes to several hours.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: carringtonevent; cme; coronalmassejection; sida; solarflare; solarstorm

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Could be some spectacular Northern Lights up north. Stay prepared though. It may not be this time, but these things can cause electrical grid problems. Last place I want to be if the grid goes down for a few days is some FEMA line asking the government for food. Whoever you depend on controls you.
1 posted on 05/20/2025 5:13:57 PM PDT by week 71
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To: week 71

Every time they say the ski is falling and it does not, they scare less people. This has diminishing returns.


2 posted on 05/20/2025 5:27:44 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: week 71

They always say that


3 posted on 05/20/2025 5:27:57 PM PDT by Az Joe (uired to.)
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To: week 71
I'm prepared...
Have watched at least 4 or 5 old movies on YouTube in which that happened...
Snicker...
4 posted on 05/20/2025 5:35:57 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: jroehl

that is why the last time back when noah tried to warn everyone that the clouds would collapse people never believed until the last second.

Today when the clouds collapse and the bytes rain down it will be every bit as problematic as it was back then

I have worked with several of these. back in the very beginning you could not even transfer a copy of your instance to a different region, I made them write me a tool, but it was still a pita and expensive to copy.

I have not used aws in years, and I am sure everything is far better now.

But the clouds will collapse, it is just a matter of time and human error. who knows it could even be AI error, or AGI intentional

while telling everyone that it was a bad thing


5 posted on 05/20/2025 5:37:29 PM PDT by algore
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To: week 71

Huge riots if the EBT/SNAP crowd doesn’t get their cheez doodles.


6 posted on 05/20/2025 5:37:49 PM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: dynachrome

Hey, cheez doodles are IMPORTANT things…


7 posted on 05/20/2025 5:43:31 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: week 71

Seems there has been the same warning three times in the last couple week for different solar storms. Yet has amounted to nothing so far.


8 posted on 05/20/2025 5:44:30 PM PDT by DAC21
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Yeah, this has happened all the time for the last 100 years - not.


9 posted on 05/20/2025 5:45:15 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: week 71

https://spaceweather.com/

Per the above...

Meh.


10 posted on 05/20/2025 5:45:45 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: DAC21

The DM likes click bait.

Bet its royal stories paywall is earning it bupkis.

The comments are a better read than the paywalled BS stories...


11 posted on 05/20/2025 5:46:59 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: week 71

I think my ‘57 Chevy Bel-Air will be just fine. We made it through Y2K with no issues.


12 posted on 05/20/2025 5:54:12 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: week 71

A coronal mass ejection is a significant ejection of plasma mass from the Sun’s corona into the heliosphere. CMEs are often associated with solar flares and other forms of solar activity, but a broadly accepted theoretical understanding of these relationships has not been established. If a CME enters interplanetary space, it is referred to as an interplanetary coronal mass ejection.
This is it boys. Nuclear combat toe to toe with the Sun.


13 posted on 05/20/2025 6:07:27 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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With this “Bipolar Spring” we’ve been experiencing here in the upper Midwest, I’ll miss it (provided the Northern Lights get this far south).


14 posted on 05/20/2025 6:08:02 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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I don’t have to worry about FEMA- I live in a Trump area, so FEMA won’t be showing up with aid.


15 posted on 05/20/2025 6:09:13 PM PDT by PAR35
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Better make sure your vaccines are up to date.


16 posted on 05/20/2025 6:17:26 PM PDT by JZelle
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In before the “Knowing” post.


17 posted on 05/20/2025 6:24:16 PM PDT by Ben Dover (Terrorism is a cancer that can only be cured with massive doses of radiation.)
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To: Ben Dover

I knew I shouldn’t have bought green bananas today.


18 posted on 05/20/2025 6:41:57 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: week 71

Newark Airport hardest hit.


19 posted on 05/20/2025 6:55:45 PM PDT by LimitedPowers (Citizenship is not a Hate Crime!)
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“Solar flares...are among the most powerful explosions in the solar system”

Hmmm, what could be bigger? My money is on something on Uranus.


20 posted on 05/20/2025 6:57:52 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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