[AusNOG] Solar flare

[Jason Leschnik]

_Most_ (i hope) of us are prudent with backups from Disk to Tape, in
the event of the 1859 solar flare occurring again would this put all
our data at risk?

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Jake Anderson <yahoo at vapourforge.com> wrote:
> On 03/08/2012 04:03 PM, Daniel Brown wrote:
>>
>> Well that's for that...........that part IS obvious!
>>
>> What side? What continent? Granted there is a global effect, but what
>> where
>> is it localised?
>>
>> Long since have the days been flat where the entire face of the earth
>> points
>> to the sun/is flat.
>>
>>
>> -DB
>
> The problem isn't the "impact" of the CME, that mainly makes pretty lights
> at the poles, its the CME pushing the earths magnetic field around.
> Because it wraps the whole way around the planet, interesting things can
> happen on the back side even after the main event seems to be over on the
> side facing the sun.
>
> But generally speaking the closer you are to the poles the stronger the
> effect.
> Also the longer the conductors your dealing with the stronger the effect.
>
> I think mostly we have been very lucky in the past 20 years, the sun has
> been unusually quiet, particularly the past 10 and the few big ones that the
> sun has made have missed us.
>
> Now if we have fiber to the home at least when the global technological
> apocalypse happens we'll all have internet (until the batteries run out) ;->
>
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