Got to put electrical items away?
sweetpeanut
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On my FB people are talking about having to put all their electrical items away from "something" that is going to hit us on Saturday.
OK I'm crap at understanding things like this, my mind just dosnt take data in. No matter how hard I try to read I just skim it.
Can someone explain in very simple terms.
http://www.solarham.net/data/events/sep10_2014_x1.6/index.htm
OK I'm crap at understanding things like this, my mind just dosnt take data in. No matter how hard I try to read I just skim it.
Can someone explain in very simple terms.
http://www.solarham.net/data/events/sep10_2014_x1.6/index.htm
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One week before Scotland makes a historic decision to become an independent nation and we get hit by Armageddon!
Did you not read your OWN link that YOU posted?!..
It says it happened yesterday on the 10th.
yep we are all still alive and well.
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Yes. Just like the millenium bug. ;-):D
I read it could be as early as Friday .. tomorrow but more likely Saturday
Once the plasma cloud reaches Earth, possibly by as early as Friday, minor to major geomagnetic storming will be possible. This event could interact with an earlier slower moving CME following the M4.5 event from Sept. 9. Sky watchers should remain alert this weekend for visual aurora displays. More updates to follow.
Also I have not posted anything about end of the world. Its about something that "Could""Might" interfere with electrical items and people are saying to pack them away just in case.
If you had read the link you would have seen.
How does that compare? The millennium bug was a real threat and IT companies and departments spent at least two years working really hard to change systems to remove the problem.
It only passed by without incident because it was dealt with, not because it wasn't a real threat.
The major danger would be to satellites and the like. Anything strong enough to take out your TV and the like would have far greater impact than damaging your kit such as to make such damage irrelevant.
Indeed, it's quite frustrating when people use the millennium bug as an example of how scary things don't happen and we shouldn't do anything whereas it is an example of how actually doing something does work. Same with the ozone layer.
Thank you Bobcar. That is all I wanted to know. Sometimes Techie people talk in a "foreign" language that goes over my head.
Once again, remove the head or destroy the brain....
Well I would do but he cancelled PMQs yesterday and is in Scotland at the moment.
Solar storms have been going for hundreds and thousands and millions of years and hitting Earth. No problem. . We're still here!!!
Although I will say, I am actually dead now, because I never forwarded that pink ribbon to 10 of my friends within 3 minutes.
OP, move on. :cool:
Hmmm Once again read the thread it has nothing to do with the end of the world, or us coming to harm. if it were, what would be the point in the tittle of this thread. Lets make sure all our electrics survive what kills us
It wasn't a FB share it was on a group where lots of techie people gather.
Yes but for most of those millions of years we haven't had advanced technology that would be affected by such things. It is possible for an extreme flare to take out satellites, power lines and much of our communications infrastructure that would affect our civilization in a major way.
Now this flare doesn't seem so bad but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't go on improving our detection of such events and having emergency contingencies in place such as shutting down power lines for worse events. Complacency is not good.
The Northern Lights might be visible? That's brilliant. :cool:
Maybe but we've thousands of quid's worth of electrics and then there's the net, phone and all that stuff. The fish tank needs electricity to run and there's also food in the freezer which would have to be thrown out if anything happened to power. Nobody seems to care about that
I was only about 15 at the time of the Millenium bug first making headlines (about '98), the first thing I did was at home on my Amiga 500+,. I changed the date to Dec 31, 23.55 and waited.....Nothing. It all carried on as normal. At school tried it on an Acorn, exactly the same. OK these might not be in the same leauge as Air Traffic Control or the computers that control nuclear missiles but the notion that the world was going to end because computers might read the year 200 as 1900 and go into meltdown was (and is) ridiculous.
That's very good. I was working with print controllers running Solaris. The ones we didn't get around to patch in time didn't work properly. I would imagine that there would have been loads of other stuff that wouldn't have worked properly either. Still you can belittle all the effort that went into this all you like