<div dir="ltr">I think it is still some days away, so unless they are also time travelling lights (hmmmmm, is THAT an interesting relativity question or what? does light from a garden light in the future shift towards red or blue?)?<div><br></div><div>:P</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Alan Maher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alanmaher@gmail.com" target="_blank">alanmaher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
Just heading outside to check on my $2 solar garden lights.<br>
I would hate it to see them fried by the "Force".<div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
<div>On 12/09/2014 10:25 p.m., Joshua
D'Alton wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite">
<p dir="ltr">It's God's retribution for the iPhone orders he's
going to fry them all with this EM field!!</p>
<p dir="ltr">sent from a potato</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 12/09/2014 6:29 pm, "Paul Brooks" <<a href="mailto:pbrooks-ausnog@layer10.com.au" target="_blank">pbrooks-ausnog@layer10.com.au</a>>
wrote:<br type="attribution">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">And in the
its-all-in-the-timing department.....published 2 hours ago<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/twin-solar-storms-head-towards-earth-20140912-10g5z6.html" target="_blank">http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/twin-solar-storms-head-towards-earth-20140912-10g5z6.html</a><br>
<br>
Small risk for a possibly interesting weekend if these cause
EM issues with power<br>
grids etc.<br>
If you experience problems with radio and satellite comms,
please post here and let us<br>
know!<br>
<br>
"Two big explosions on the surface of the sun will cause a
moderate to strong<br>
geomagnetic storm on Earth in the coming days, possibly
disrupting radio and satellite<br>
communications, scientists say.<br>
<br>
The unusual storm is not likely to wreak havoc with personal
electronics but may cause<br>
colourful nighttime auroras, or displays of the Northern
Lights, late Friday and early<br>
Saturday.<br>
<br>
"We don't expect any unmanageable impacts to national
infrastructure from these solar<br>
events at this time but we are watching these events closely,"
said Thomas Berger,<br>
director of the Space Weather Prediction Centre at the
National Oceanic and<br>
Atmospheric Administration.<br>
....<br>
<br>
The National Weather Service has alerted power grid operators
and the Federal<br>
Emergency Management Agency, just in case.<br>
<br>
The strength of the storm pales in comparison to major
geomagnetic storms of years<br>
past, such as the 1859 Carrington event that wiped out power
across a swath of Canada.<br>
<br>
It is also weaker than a near-miss geomagnetic storm in July
2012 that NASA scientists<br>
said could have knocked Earth's technology back at least 150
years.<br>
<br>
That storm didn't cause mass damage because the fast-moving
energized particles were<br>
not directed straight at Earth.<br>
<br>
"The events that just occurred over the last 24 hours were
Earth-directed, they are<br>
just not that big," said William Murtagh, program c<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
AusNOG mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog" target="_blank">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a><br>
</blockquote>
</div>
<br>
<fieldset></fieldset>
<br>
<pre>_______________________________________________
AusNOG mailing list
<a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a>
<a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog" target="_blank">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a>
</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br><br>
</div></div><hr style="border:none;color:#909090;background-color:#b0b0b0;min-height:1px;width:99%">
<table style="border-collapse:collapse;border:none">
<tbody><tr>
<td style="border:none;padding:0px 15px 0px 8px">
<a href="http://www.avast.com/" target="_blank">
<img border="0" src="http://static.avast.com/emails/avast-mail-stamp.png">
</a>
</td>
<td>
<p style="color:#3d4d5a;font-family:"Calibri","Verdana","Arial","Helvetica";font-size:12pt">
This email is free from viruses and malware because <a href="http://www.avast.com/" target="_blank">avast! Antivirus</a> protection is active.
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<br>
</div>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>
AusNOG mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog" target="_blank">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br></div>