Posted on 09/09/2005 4:50:55 AM PDT by dnmore
The sun on Wednesday unleashed one of the largest solar flares on record, and further activity could disrupt communications links and electrical power grids.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, or NOAA, said the powerful flare that emerged from region 808 on the sun Wednesday afternoon rated the fourth-largest in the last 15 years. Intense radio emissions were associated with the flare.
It rated an R-4, or severe, on NOAA's space weather scale for radio blackouts.
"This event created a complete blackout of high-frequency communications on the day-lit side of Earth, which included the entire U.S. and basically anywhere the sun was shining at this time," Larry Combs, solar forecaster at the NOAA Space Environment Center, said in a prepared statement. "Communications used by emergency services along the Gulf Coast may have experienced problems due to this flare. Low-frequency navigation systems may also have experienced a period of significant degradation," he added.
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its Haliburton's/Chaney's/Rove's fault.
If only Kyoto were in effect, this would not happen!........
Bush's fault!
Obviously Bush has friends in high places to pull all this off.
Not only is it Bush's fault, but if communications and power grids are disrupted, it will be because Bush is a racist.
We need to make a giant crystal the size of the U.N. and stand around it holding hands so the force of our inner beings can be focused onto the flares and make them go away..........ommmmmm------ommmmmmmmmmmmm
All this solar mayhem because of the tax cuts and the war in Iraq.
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