[DongoSab]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/s...hit-earth.html

[UltraSearchs]

Already read about it. It's supposed to hit roughly midnight (Australian time) which is only a couple minutes a way (give or take a couple hours I guess).

Anyways, it's only a class C3 which means it will likely have no effect on us or the electrical grid. However it's supposed to put on a nice light display

[Ecurrexchangess]

Nasa recently warned that Britain could face widespread power blackouts and be left without critical communication signals for long periods of time, after the earth is hit by a once-in-a-generation “space storm”. D: lol

[vernotixas]

A Nasa spokesman was unavailable for comment.

OMG this is it, were all gonna die!!!!! The NASA spokesman already left in his shiny new rocket to the moon. He's looking down at us laughing his ass off as the Suns coronal mass ejection shoots it's hot plasma all over our face.

Should I wear my tin foil hat, or will that just make things worse?

[EmpokemyMok]

*opens speed test on cell phone*

[indahouweres]

This is one thing I fear more than anything else, well besides a nuclear explosion in my local city. Anyways, as our technology advances, a solar flare is the single most destructive element the sun can throw at us in our "technological renaissance."

Like if the poles switch and then Canada will then be the southern border of the US and that would change all the rules.

[Eeaquzyh]

I wonder if we will be able to see anything good here in the US. i saw the aurora once while I was in college after a big solar flare. It was cloudy that night so you couldnt see it very well. would love to see a good one.

[mymnarorump]

D: lol

Thats called sensational news BULLSHIT.

Nothing is going to happen to the grid...they say they asked "Scientists" yet the Nasa scientist was unavailable for comment?

[sleepergun]

Thats called sensational news BULLSHIT.

Nothing is going to happen to the grid...they say they asked "Scientists" yet the Nasa scientist was unavailable for comment?

Nothing is going to happen to it THIS time...

But if preventative measures aren't taken before the next MEGA-storm hits (like it did in 1859), we'll all be screwed. It's not even really debatable.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...ay_031027.html

In early September in 1859, telegraph wires suddenly shorted out in the United States and Europe, igniting widespread fires. Colorful aurora, normally visible only in polar regions, were seen as far south as Rome and Hawaii.
The event 144 years ago was three times more powerful than the strongest space storm in modern memory, one that cut power to an entire Canadian province in 1989. A new account of the 1859 event, from research led by Bruce Tsurutani of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, details the most powerful onslaught of solar energy in recorded history.


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[Trotoleterm]

Is there a rough time figure of when we could see it in UK? Or do I have to stay outside all night?

[kertUtire]

Is there a rough time figure of when we could see it in UK? Or do I have to stay outside all night?

Midnight tonight, apparently.

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/thr...9#post10940089

[cxddfrxc]

News just in from leading administrator Michael Griffin from NASA

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
F*ck you, F*ck you, F*ck you, F*ck you and F*ck the rest of you all.
I hope you all burn to a crisp. See you in hell motherf*ckers !!! lol [rofl]

[Trotoleterm]

Midnight tonight, apparently.

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/thr...9#post10940089

I have to log in. Can you show screenshot>?

[kertUtire]

I have to log in. Can you show screenshot>?

All you need from the thread is this link. I think the OP of that thread got it wrong though, it's 1am not 12am.

[oranowdenda]

All you need from the thread is this link. I think the OP of that thread got it wrong though, it's 1am not 12am.

WTF is UTC?
All times should be in GMT if it's an international event as everyone SHOULD know their time zone and how to correct to local time!
Ah, it IS just a fancy way of saying GMT - http://www.iris.edu/seismon/html/utc.html

[SantaGanstag]

It's more astronomically correct than GMT though

[kertUtire]

It's more astronomically correct than GMT though

More correct in what way?

[SantaGanstag]

It's basically more accurate than GMT, as it receives updates to account for the slowing of Earth's rotation on a more regular basis (and to a finer division) than the 'standard' clock. For 99.999999% of folks it's exactly the same as GMT but if one is working in astronomy, UTC is a must.

[jisee]

It is a lot warmer here today then it was in the last 5 days, and humid.

[Trotoleterm]

So whats best time to go out? Just before 12am uk time, or 1am? I got country side on my front garden so no light polution and highest part of my area, if there is something , I'll see it good.