<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">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>
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<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>
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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>
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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>
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"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>
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The National Weather Service has alerted power grid operators and the Federal<br>
Emergency Management Agency, just in case.<br>
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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>
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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>
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That storm didn't cause mass damage because the fast-moving energized particles were<br>
not directed straight at Earth.<br>
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"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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