LATEST CORONAL MASS EJECTION TIME OF IMPACT PREDICTION (most powerful since 1989)

Solar-Terrestrial Dispatch ^ | October 28, 2003

[John H K]

Not very good timing for the East coast given our weather.

[Consort]

Don't take any chances. Put your head where the sun don't shine.

[LivingNet]

I can never remember...Are you supposed to take your tin-foil hat off during a low-latitude aurora or leave it on??

[Pro-Bush]

We are lucky it wasn't pointed directly at earth!

[Izzy Dunne]

See also SpaceWeather.

[el_chupacabra]

Okay. This isn't funny. Time to 'fess up. Which one of you broke the sun?

[r9etb]

(most powerful since 1989)

I was working a Shuttle mission when this one happened. Heated the atmosphere up pretty good (we had to adjust the atmospheric drag model to account for it), and IIRC they got some great video of the aurora.

[netmilsmom]

Levitate your tin-foil hat three inches above your head so the waves will be defected away from you yet your brains will not fry due to the heat.

No more than three inches.

[Consort]

A properly calibrated tin-foil hat of sufficient gage should suffice.

[LivingNet]

We are SITCOMs-single income, two kids, oppressive mortgage

We are also sitcoms but it stands for "Single income, three kids, oppressive mother-in-law".

[Cold Heat]

These events are continuing and estimated to continue for two weeks or more.

It is unusual for this to happen so soon after a cycle change. This fact has sun observers quite excited, so basically, we are in new territory as far as statistics are concerned.

The events of a few days ago did not have the strength expected, but these things are really hard to predict exactly. All we really know is that it is coming our way. If, by the time it gets here, it is off a degree or two, it is not really the fault of NOAA. It is just hard to predict the impact of a bullet when it is coming in your direction. (no reference points available)

[Lando Lincoln]

Cornal Mass Ejection

That's what I have after my 5th bottle of Corona!

[Alter Kaker]

This is not joke. If satelites I work using fail, could be harmful to security and possibly to peoples life. Scientist who work for me are expressing concern.

[John H K]

I thought they decided the calculations that led to this were in error and an event of much lower magnitude was now expected. Or... did I dream that?

That was last Thursday. This is a totally different flare.

[John H K]

We are lucky it wasn't pointed directly at earth!

This one WAS pointed directly at earth.

[RockChucker]

For Gods sake, leave your Foil Hats ON!!!! Got Foil?

[Orangedog]

To what degree are commercial and military satellites hardend against these kind of events? I imagine the military satellites do this at the componant level to withstand EMP from nuclear detonations, but I don't know about all of the communication and weather satellites. Do you have any idea how hard the global economy would crash if they were all cooked?!

[netmilsmom]

>>oppressive mother-in-law<<

Oooo, I have one of those too.

My father-in-law and hubby were putting together a set of gas logs for the fireplace in my dining room. They had pieces spread everywhere trying to figure it out. "Janet from another Planet" (my MIL) decided that this would be a good time to arrange the chairs and bowl of plastic fruit on the dining room suite they had graciously given us.
My FIL said, "Jan, you are stepping on the pieces. Please do that at another time."
My hubby said, "Mom, please you are moving parts all around. Do it after we have finished."
I said, "Come on, let's go downstairs and let the guys finish."

She stamped her foot and yelled, "One, two! Three people aren't going to tell me what to do!!"

She is 76 going on 5.

BTW, this is one of many stories...

[netmilsmom]

>>Okay. This isn't funny. Time to 'fess up. Which one of you broke the sun?<<

LOLOL!!