Today's Timmay Spoogethread

[CountDeMoney]

Solar flare could disrupt radio, GPS, power systems

NASA is warning of a large solar flare expected to impact Earth on Wednesday night or Thursday morning, potentially disturbing radio communication, GPS and power grids.

A phenomenon known as a coronal mass ejection associated with a solar flare detected Tuesday is expected to reach us between 5:25 p.m. Wednesday and 8:25 a.m. Thursday, traveling at 1,300 miles per second. The events involve massive quantities of matter and electromagnetic radiation being released from the sun and traveling through space.

Other coronal mass ejections traveling at slower speeds could reach Earth in the coming days.

The solar flare they are associated with was the second-largest since 2007, when solar weather moved a regular calm phase of its 11-year cycle.

The solar weather can cause beautiful examples of aurora borealis, the "Northern Lights", but can also cause power outages and blackouts to radio and GPS signals.

I can tell it's having an effect already;  the static electricity is hitting my cat to the point she looks like a blow fish.
Or maybe it's because she's been sleeping in my flannel sheets all morning.

[Viking]

Your cat is plotting to kill and eat you. It invited me to a plot to kill and eat you in my recent CK2 game.

[crazy canuck]

It is warmer today.

[Lettow77]

 CdM, could you tell us more about your cat?

[CountDeMoney]

CdM, could you tell us more about your cat?

I'm not here to give you whacking material, Round Eye.

[Ed Anger]

 

[Lettow77]

Alike to a fuzzy flower,
Seedy's cat blooms in early spring
a holy, hairy blossoming
owing to electric power

Some say the cat's impressive feat
does not concern the solar flare
and rather that a flannel sheet
accounts for her expanding hair.

[DGuller]

Alike to a fuzzy flower,
Seedy's cat blooms in early spring
a holy, hairy blossoming
owing to electric power

Some say the cat's impressive feat
does not concern the solar flare
and rather that a flannel sheet
accounts for her expanding hair.

[Ed Anger]

I forsee red text

[CountDeMoney]

Alike to a fuzzy flower,
Seedy's cat blooms in early spring
a holy, hairy blossoming
owing to electric power

Some say the cat's impressive feat
does not concern the solar flare
and rather that a flannel sheet
accounts for her expanding hair.

Motherfu

[Ed Anger]

I am: NEGRODAMUS.

[The Brain]

Alike to a fuzzy flower,
Seedy's cat blooms in early spring
a holy, hairy blossoming
owing to electric power

Some say the cat's impressive feat
does not concern the solar flare
and rather that a flannel sheet
accounts for her expanding hair.

[jimmy olsen]

Alike to a fuzzy flower,
Seedy's cat blooms in early spring
a holy, hairy blossoming
owing to electric power

Some say the cat's impressive feat
does not concern the solar flare
and rather that a flannel sheet
accounts for her expanding hair.

Motherfu

Pfft. That was harmless

[Eddie Teach]

Whoa, Lettow wrote a poem that was actually readable.