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Just heading outside to check on my $2 solar garden lights.<br>
I would hate it to see them fried by the "Force".<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/09/2014 10:25 p.m., Joshua
D'Alton wrote:<br>
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<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
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">And in the
its-all-in-the-timing department.....published 2 hours ago<br>
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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>
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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>
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"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>
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