http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16701407
A good chance to see the Aurora Borealis :cool:
I hope a TeV cosmic ray defies the odds and hits me right in the brain.
Walking the dog in the afternoon usually results in a good light show up here.... Glorious Aurora Borealis are a mundane occurance here.
Is this why my cable TV was kinda screwy yesterday?
End of the Wold?
I've never seen the northern Lights. :(
Quote from: Razgovory on January 26, 2012, 10:52:41 PM
I've never seen the northern Lights. :(
Don't feel bad, I was in Alaska for three years and I never saw them either.
Quote from: lustindarkness on January 24, 2012, 03:40:43 PM
Is this why my cable TV was kinda screwy yesterday?
Mine was out for a day too. Does it just affect polar areas or other places?
When there is a solar storm the earth is bombarded with a stream of high-energy particles that play havoc with electronic systems. Luckily the Earth's magnetosphere diverts most of them out of the way, otherwise we couldn't play computer games and would have to die of cancer instead.
http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Magnetosphere/overview.html
Every now and then the polarity reverses for reasons unknown. This takes a few hundred years or so. Such a reversal, with its temporarily weak magnetic field, would be pretty bad for us in our current state of technology.
The airlines rerouted a lot of polar flights during the storm as the concentration of such particles was very high up there.
Has anyone actually seen these particles? :yeahright:
Quote from: Viking on January 24, 2012, 03:19:21 PM
Walking the dog in the afternoon usually results in a good light show up here....
Some dog :D
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Quote from: The Brain on January 27, 2012, 04:35:24 AM
Has anyone actually seen these particles? :yeahright:
They are green :ph34r:
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