Radioactive Solar Blast To Hit Earth

Originally posted by Unity_99
A wonderful CME. Filled with High Spectrum Light and Love if you reach for that, please do.

Roger that.

Let's take the energy and run with it. I say let's start a 24 hour love meditation. Picture receiving this energy, infusing it with love, and sending it through the grid. I'm starting right now.

I'm radioactive.

reply to post by Bedlam


Thanks for putting this info out there.

It does not look like we have any recorded history of a CME directly hitting the Earth, except possibly back in 1859 when telegraph lines were taken down across the US. There of course were no satellites monitoring the event. The question is whether or not this will be a direct hit as oppose to a "Earth directed" CME, which means on the same side of the sun where the Earth is orbitting.

pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov...

This is the famous storm of March 13, 1989 which caused a transformer failure on one of the main power transmission lines in the HydroQuebec system precipitated a catastrophic collapse of the entire power grid. 6 million people lost electrical power for 9 or more hours.

The speed of this current CME is up there in the range of serious effect capability. It looks like power interruptions could be a very real possibility.

This article also states that the effect is influenced by whether or not it hits north or south, south being much more damaging.

Hopefully more information comes out soon.

reply to post by htapath


Maybe we can get super powers?

Might want to be meditating indoors.

Originally posted by poet1b
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Maybe we can get super powers?

Might want to be meditating indoors.

Fear is the mind killer.

I ate me spinach already today.

Love Love Love. You in bro?

This link will explain things a bit more - NOAA Space Weather Scales

We are currently experiencing a G2 Geomagnetic storm with a KP index of 6


King

It looks like more news is coming out of NASA.

www.nasa.gov...

This recent article states a fast CME occurred early Friday Morning.

www.nasa.gov...

This earlier article states that there were 2 CMEs, one on the twelveth, which was Earth directed, but not very fast in CME terms, and one on the fifteenth, which was not Earth directed and not very fast, so we have some conflicting statements.

Was there a CME eruption today?

Originally posted by poet1b

It looks like more news is coming out of NASA.

www.nasa.gov...

This recent article states a fast CME occurred early Friday Morning.

www.nasa.gov...

This earlier article states that there were 2 CMEs, one on the twelveth, which was Earth directed, but not very fast in CME terms, and one on the fifteenth, which was not Earth directed and not very fast, so we have some conflicting statements.

Was there a CME eruption today?

Not today, this was caused by a filament eruption on the 15th.

Skip to 1.58 for the part concerning the cause of this storm




King

reply to post by htapath


After further research, it looks like the CME is hitting the Earth today, so now would the time to meditate on that energy, although the reports do seem to have conflicting stories.

Originally posted by poet1b
It does not look like we have any recorded history of a CME directly hitting the Earth, except possibly back in 1859 when telegraph lines were taken down across the US.

The telegraph line failure was a direct victim of geomagnetic heave. It's why you could also operate the lines with no battery - the pseudo-DC current induced in the lines did the trick if you had grounds at both ends. Not only is there a current induced in the line, there's a potential induced in the earth itself so that the two grounds of the telegraph are actually at different voltages.

Telegraph lines tended to be very long, and of course were wire lines - they're DC coupled, so you've got a long stretch of wire. The longer the wire, the higher the potential a heave can induce, couple that with gutta percha or cotton insulation, and you easily get sparks, fire, melted wires.

If they'd used more repeaters and broken the lines up into smaller sections, it wouldn't have been as big an issue, but then you'd have batteries all across the US to maintain, and it was a cost issue.

Similarly, if we had high voltage cross country lines where the transformers were designed for DC offset, this wouldn't be an issue either, but it means more expensive less efficient transformers, so we don't do it and cross our fingers that we can drop the cross country lines fast enough if the satellites detect a bad incoming CME.

reply to post by madmac5150


Nuclear radiation vs solar radiation....2 DIFFERENT TYPES!

We are not going to die folks, but do put on some extra sunscreen before we get hit

reply to post by PhoenixOD


Better than a damn squid right?

Originally posted by Ophiuchus 13
even the dark MOON areas out there that don't get direct Sun/STAR Light but do and ARE receiving its Chemical Compound Radiation mixtures reaching those colder darker areas.

May you enlighten me as to what areas of the moon do not get sunlight?

Originally posted by poet1b
reply to post by Bedlam

 

Thanks for putting this info out there.

It does not look like we have any recorded history of a CME directly hitting the Earth, except possibly back in 1859 when telegraph lines were taken down across the US. There of course were no satellites monitoring the event. The question is whether or not this will be a direct hit as oppose to a "Earth directed" CME, which means on the same side of the sun where the Earth is orbitting.

pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov...

This is the famous storm of March 13, 1989 which caused a transformer failure on one of the main power transmission lines in the HydroQuebec system precipitated a catastrophic collapse of the entire power grid. 6 million people lost electrical power for 9 or more hours.

The speed of this current CME is up there in the range of serious effect capability. It looks like power interruptions could be a very real possibility.

This article also states that the effect is influenced by whether or not it hits north or south, south being much more damaging.

Hopefully more information comes out soon.

edit on 17-3-2013 by poet1b because: Typos

we are hit by them every year, multiple times. It's not a big deal. The "big deal" ones I believe are thought to occur every 500 or so years.

Why apply Semantics?

A S1 Radiation Storm was triggered early in the day by Protons > 10 MeV at 10 flux unit and concurrent with the G2 geomagnetic effects around first 3 hours or so when the Kp value shot to 6.

So it isn't like ionizing radiation and nuclear waste?

Alpha particle radiation and associated proxy effects aren't classified radioactive anymore?

A variable subset of solar emissions are Alphas.

Furthermore, protons classified to their MeV energy levels say something. It is atmospheric radiation.

Known risk and most widely reported hazard : airline flight passengers, from Protons and associated proxy effects > 100 MeV

It starts from S2 and worsen upwards.

See the 'Biological' line in the "NOAA Space Weather Scale for Solar Radiation Storms" section.

NOAA Space Weather Scales www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales/

Getting into aluminium thickness as shield on modern airplanes as a misdirection reply will throw the thread off course.

Aluminium thickness would dictate the relevancy of each S1~5 scale or not. Any further a derailment.

Because of that established risk that aluminium thickness is an item of study for engineers.

Well, what I learned from this is that reports of these CME will come out after the radiation has already passed the Earth. So much for early warning for John Q Public.

Earth directed means very little. If the Force of the ejection is headed out at a 45 degree angle from the Earth, the effect is going to be a whole heck of a lot less.

I doubt if we have a clue what a fast moving CME coming directly at the Earth will do.

We know one took out a major transformer a few decades ago, but I didn't see any information as to how close to the Earth this was directed.

reply to post by poet1b
JPL NASA and NOAA would put up/out a warning, it would be front page web news if it was bad enough to cause power outages or SAT / COM,DATA ie web/cellphone loss, one would hope to see a 10 hour waring but one could hit us with in 9 min in "theory" what we do get is like this one a glancing blow, but a direct one could do the above damage earthsky.org... here is a article to help understand the what if's of a CME X flare the one to cause major problems. www.pcmag.com... Do you have your FARADAY CAGE READY? www.wisegeek.org...