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Solar X-Flare coming our way.

ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
edited 2012-07-13 16:20 in General Discussion
"Big sunspot AR1520 unleashed an X1.4-class solar flare on July 12th at 1653 UT. Because this sunspot is directly facing Earth, everything about the blast was geoeffective...."

Read more about it at www.spaceweather.com

http://helios.swpc.noaa.gov/ovation/

Comments

  • msrobotsmsrobots Posts: 3,709
    edited 2012-07-12 21:22
    This happend at 16:53. About 7 minutes later it hit earth.

    so we survived apperantly ...

    Enjoy!

    Mike
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-07-12 21:27
    The light takes seven or eight minutes to reach us. The ions take one to three days.

    -Phil
  • Peter KG6LSEPeter KG6LSE Posts: 1,383
    edited 2012-07-12 21:33
    This..... ..
  • msrobotsmsrobots Posts: 3,709
    edited 2012-07-12 22:05
    @Peter, you are right. This not it. I will correct it. Thank you.

    @Phil, I didnot know. Why? Ahhem.cought. If you can enlight me ...

    Ah. Since I have you here: Just going thru a printed S2 listing to wrap myself around AUTODOC. Great pice of work. Gosh and 2 years ago ...

    I LOVE IT!

    please go foreward with integration into the PropTool - what a GREAT program/Tool. - any testversion to download somewhere?


    Enjoy!

    Mike
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-07-12 22:20
    Light travels at -- well -- the speed of light. 93,000,000 miles / 186,000 mi./sec. = 500 sec. = 8.33 minutes. Ions are atoms stripped of one or more electrons, so they have mass and, thus, move more slowly.

    -Phil
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2012-07-13 02:16
    Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »
    The light takes seven or eight minutes to reach us. The ions take one to three days.

    -Phil

    And so it seems that by Monday I may have the look and feel of a microwaved chicken........... Time to hide out in my concrete bunker of an apartment.
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2012-07-13 09:21
    Great! it might sort out the crazy weather we are having this summer over here.
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2012-07-13 10:03
    Loopy Byteloose wrote: »
    And so it seems that by Monday I may have the look and feel of a microwaved chicken........... Time to hide out in my concrete bunker of an apartment.

    It seems these skyscrapers, at least the ones I watched being built, and for example the one with 21 floors, are built with floors and ceilings of solid very thick concrete held with steel structures. Being down on floor 1 could achieve a rather good absorption insulator against certain incoming particles from above. If the thickness is 8-inch each per level floor and ceiling, that would be a shield of 20 x 2 x 8 = 320" or a combined 27-feet thickness of concrete. That won't stop every type of particle but it should help stop some.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_protection
  • JordanCClarkJordanCClark Posts: 198
    edited 2012-07-13 10:17
    Humanoido wrote: »
    That won't stop every type of particle but it should help stop some.
    This should help with the rest...:lol:
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  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2012-07-13 11:19
    Does this explain why the UK is having both the wettest drought on record and the wettest summer in 100 years?

    The best sun blocker is a foot of concrete with good air conditioning.

    When I worked in nuclear reactor construction, we used special shielding concrete - no stone aggregate or sand, just steel shot as a replacement. And to block any openings, there was a huge stockpile of lead bricks. Everyone stole a lead brick and fastened a pencil sharpener to it for mobility. Typical government project.
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2012-07-13 11:27
    Loopy Byteloose wrote: »
    Does this explain why the UK is having both the wettest drought on record and the wettest summer in 100 years?
    Something has happened that's for sure, One minute it's bucketing down and the next glorious sunshine and then rain again, literally a minute apart, you don't know what to wear a raincoat or shorts, I've now decided on both :lol:
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-07-13 11:31
    Loopy Byteloose wrote:
    The best sun blocker is a foot of concrete with good air conditioning.
    And the best ion blocker is the Earth's magnetic field. So get outdoors and bathe in the splendor of the aurora borealis (or australus, depending).

    -Phil
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2012-07-13 13:29
    Are you sugesting that sun spot activity that is happening now is responsible for weather conditions in England that already happened a while ago?
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2012-07-13 15:32
    According to www.spaceweather.com , analysts have updated the "...expected arrival time to 09:17 UT (5:17 am EDT) on Saturday, July 14th. Weekend auroras are likely."

    So get up early or stay up late and enjoy the show.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-07-13 15:41
    Just our (Pacific Northwesterners) luck! After a week of stunningly clear weather, we've been having thunderstorms (rare for these parts -- 'thought I woke up in the Midwest) all day, without any indication that they'll be letting up. 'Not gonna see a thing!

    -Phil
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2012-07-13 16:20
    Apparently the UK weather is due to the gulf stream being too south bringing low pressure to bear on the Island
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