Northern Lights: Solar Flares May Disrupt Power Grids & Communication Systems ..( like China)

Source: ThirdAge/BBC

By Julie Lao - February 18, 2011 4:12 AM
Northern lights caused by recent solar flares have dazzled in the midnight sky mesmerizing a multitude of stargazers all transfixed by one of Mother Nature’s awesome displays.

However, recent reports say that the spectacular show may come with consequences. BBC News reports that “waves of charged solar particles will be hitting the Earth's magnetic field over the course of Thursday and Friday.”

The result of which could cause serious interference with current technology. Washington Post reports that the solar flares can “trigger radio blackouts, radiation storms and damage to the electrical grid.”



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Amazing photo of flare! wow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyFwsD8G-kE (news)

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...if you are referring to te structure on the upper right limb.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB4KOtWUeE4&feature=feedu


ALERT AS YAHOO NEWS WARNS OF CATASTROPHIC SOLAR EVENTS 2011


very interesting..

CMEs are a very serious threat but the so-called Comet Elenin (Nibiru) is not! LOL! Last time I heard the Tin Foil Hat crowd talk about Nibiru it was the a yet undiscovered planet that only they knew about & it was going to crash into Earth in 2012. I guess now it is a comet called Elenin? LOL!

tectonics. He's got a utube channel, and he posts forecasts based on what the sun is doing. I haven't been convinced yet, but he does seem to be on to something. If nothing else, I love the images of the sun at different angstroms, and it's a real handy place to catch up on the recent quakes and such.

Will you check it out and give me your opinion?
http://www.youtube.com/user/thebarcaroller

Science consists of creating falsifiable (testable) hypotheses, then conducting experiments to attempt to prove your explanation wrong. Only after weeding out all the seemingly-reasonable but experimentally unverifiable explanations can one begin to have confidence that the hypothesis has value. In particular, scientists have to guard against personal bias in favor of their hypothesis. Barcaroller does none of this. If you're interested in a good explanation of what constitutes a scientific explanation, read what one of the 20th Century's smartest scientists, Richard Feynman, had to say: http://www.fotuva.org/feynman/what_is_science.html

All that's going on here is time correlation. There is no numerically credible, and more importantly, testable explanation of the actual physical mechanism that might link crustal movement with coronal events. I could make an equally correlative case linking earthquakes to stock prices, by choosing my data from the vast number of daily earthquakes.

Earth's crustal plates are in constant motion, rubbing and scraping along their edges, every day. The amount of physical force involved is orders of magnitude greater than that received from solar ejections. One might as well say that blowing leaves cause sudden acceleration events in automobiles.

First, I am not a scientist but I do try to stay up to date on scientific information & I have never heard of such a connection.

...And the main reason why I say this is WOO-WOO is reading the comments...Some of the comments made by followers of this You Tube Channel & the replies made by the person running this channel are seriously OUT THERE!! They take real science & warp it into pure BS!

I did a search for "creditable" sources on the topic of solar flares & earthquakes & there was literally nothing...All that exist are the conspiracy websites & the pseudo-science websites. If there were a creditable correlation then NASA & USGS & every other applicable organization would have tons of material on this...NOTHING!

What people like this guy who runs the You Tube channel are doing is they will make prediction after prediction & eventually they may get close & they will claim VICTORY! All the while ignoring the fact they had been wrong untold times.

Again, this is BS!

can't get the movie to load to show it ... love these Northern Lights.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110217.html
(lots of info at link)



On Valentine's Day (ET) the Sun unleashed one of its most powerful explosions, an X-class flare. The blast was the largest so far in the new solar cycle. Erupting from active region AR1158 in the Sun's southern hemisphere, the flare is captured here in this extreme ultraviolet image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The intense burst of electromagnetic radiation momentarily overwhelmed pixels in SDO's detectors causing the bright vertical blemish. This X-class flare was also accompanied by a coronal mass ejection (CME), a massive cloud of charged particles traveling outward at nearly 900 kilometers per second. Skywatchers at high latitudes should be alert for aurorae tonight.