Homework247
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 Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:07 pm Post subject: Solar Flare :? |
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Has anyone been tracking what's been going on with the HUGE solar flare that took place on Tuesday? my aunt said her GPS went out of wack. she lives in America, and it said that she was in Japan!!!  What's going on??!! |
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ruveyn
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:19 pm Post subject: Re: Solar Flare :? |
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| Homework247 wrote: | | Has anyone been tracking what's been going on with the HUGE solar flare that took place on Tuesday? my aunt said her GPS went out of wack. she lives in America, and it said that she was in Japan!!! What's going on??!! |
No big deal. It was more like a solar fizzle.
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Homework247
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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ohh Phewwwww!!!  Thanks ruveyn!!! That makes me feel alot better!! at least i know that we wont be cooked to crispy critters!!! |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Be prepared for radio interruptions, LOOK OUT!!!!!!! |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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| snapcap wrote: | | Be prepared for radio interruptions, LOOK OUT!!!!!!! |
I'm going to turn on my radio just to hear the interruption. Now that is novelty!
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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I think that it would be very unlikely that a pulse of gamma rays would be able to wipe out the whole world. While standing behind a object from an intense gamma source such as an atom bomb will not fully protect you as gamma photons will compton scatter off atoms in the air.
But for the gamma rays to compton scatter their way to the far side of the earth off air and stones would be rather far fetched. So I do not think that a gamma ray pulse would fry us all, it might cause some changes in the air. I know that if you irradate air with gamma rays that you form nitric acid and nitrogen oxides. So we might get some dire acid rain and a problem with the ozone layer after a strong gamma pulse.
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snapcap
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Vigilans wrote: | | snapcap wrote: | | Be prepared for radio interruptions, LOOK OUT!!!!!!! |
I'm going to turn on my radio just to hear the interruption. Now that is novelty! |
BE PREPARED...to be unimpressed. |
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Homework247
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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snapcap, I have my radio on right now!!  so far, all is calm on the stations!!! heheheehhehe |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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My bank account briefly showed I was a millionaire. 
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Homework247
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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ComicRuss, That is freakin awsome!!!! Now if only that were true.....hmmmm wishful thinking... |
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| Homework247 wrote: | | ComicRuss, That is freakin awsome!!!! Now if only that were true.....hmmmm wishful thinking... |
Oh alright, maybe I didn't read the ATM screen correctly because the sun was shining too brightly. 
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Homework247
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| ComicRuss, that's ok....we all have wishful thinking that sometimes causes us to see things!!! |
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snapcap
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Homework247 wrote: | | snapcap, I have my radio on right now!! so far, all is calm on the stations!!! heheheehhehe |
My radio was going in and out yesterday, but who knows if it had to do with the flare or not. Come to think about it, I think I was listening to Rush Limbaugh and it was going out during the commercials |
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Homework247
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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snapcap, right now, my computer is going CRAZY!!!! i have no idea if that has to do with the solar flair or not....hmmmm I wonder...  |
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ruveyn
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Vigilans wrote: | | snapcap wrote: | | Be prepared for radio interruptions, LOOK OUT!!!!!!! |
I'm going to turn on my radio just to hear the interruption. Now that is novelty! |
If you tune your radio between stations you can hear plenty of solar radiation in the static. Of course off-tuning is not so easy in this day of digital radios.
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