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    Default Solar Flare Erupts

    This was on t.v. and i was able to find this report on the web with a video of what the eruption looked like.
    Check it...

    http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/...es/?test=faces
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    That was pretty fracking big, to not have any/minimal effect on the Earth.

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    damn, i've never seen a picture of the sun like that, I always figured it was a ball of fire but there is actually solid material.. hah.
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    Scientists said that the event won't have a significant impact on Earth, although it will deliver a "glancing blow" to the planet's magnetic field late June 8 or June 9, NASA said.

    Damn........that's today!!!
    2011 ? Not 2012......
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    Isnt the magnetic field already fracked up as it is?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatGuy View Post
    That was pretty fracking big, to not have any/minimal effect on the Earth.
    It's also not directly pointing at us, otherwise I'd say there might be more impact.
    (´・ω・`)

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    where's bart?

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    if anyone fracking thinks this relates to 2012 go suck a dick. im so tired of hearing the dumbass girls in our class talk about it. NOTHING IS GOING TO frackING HAPPEN.

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    Quote Originally Posted by skimiks View Post
    if anyone fracking thinks this relates to 2012 go suck a dick. im so tired of hearing the dumbass girls in our class talk about it. NOTHING IS GOING TO frackING HAPPEN.

    /anger
    so ignorant..
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    Quote Originally Posted by skimiks View Post
    if anyone fracking thinks this relates to 2012 go suck a dick. im so tired of hearing the dumbass girls in our class talk about it. NOTHING IS GOING TO frackING HAPPEN.

    /anger
    I don't think this relates to 2012 but is it okay if I suck a dick anyways?
    (´・ω・`)

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    Quote Originally Posted by $ilky $kim View Post
    It's also not directly pointing at us, otherwise I'd say there might be more impact.
    Yes you're right^....I think they said it the biggest one they have seen too. If it was pointing at us....would we be toast? Bart.....anyone?
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    I dont think theres anyhting to worry about cause this never happens.
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    zomg, its 100 degrees in nj, does this solar flair have to do with the heat!?

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    The heat in NJ has more to do with the high pressure system sitting right over West Virginia, sending up all of the hot moist air from the south east. Luckily you will have a cold front moving in sometime tomorrow afternoon to cool everything off.

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    whew!

    also, if the world ends for everyone, who will play the harp4me?
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    Quote Originally Posted by packman4902 View Post
    The heat in NJ has more to do with the high pressure system sitting right over West Virginia, sending up all of the hot moist air from the south east. Luckily you will have a cold front moving in sometime tomorrow afternoon to cool everything off.
    are you sure, its a weird coincidence that there are solar flares and hot weather

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_weather

    a major solar flare would pretty much frack the power grid. i think there have been smaller ones in the past that have caused local power outages, but we havnt had a big one, yet. they can also take out satellites. basically the more we modernize, the more we become susceptible to it
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    Quote Originally Posted by zeus View Post
    are you sure, its a weird coincidence that there are solar flares and hot weather
    The solar flare does have an effect on the upper atmosphere, but it doesn't change day to day weather by very much. It does however have a pretty good chance to mess with radio and other kind of transmissions.

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    After four years of taking meteorology classes, the thing that keep coming up is how well our Planet is at keeping stuff like this from doing any major damage to us. The upper layer of our atmosphere absorbs almost all of the radiation before it reaches the ground.

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    Wouldn't it frack up the magnetosphere temporarily as well if this was a direct hit?
    (´・ω・`)

 

 

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