Solar flare.
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Solar flare set to hit @ midnight EST, every body get out your tinfoil hats.
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Solar flare set to hit @ midnight EST, every body get out your tinfoil hats.
Are you crazy??? Look, if the solar flare hits at night, as it will for the US, the Sun will be on the other side of the planet, and all that radiation will slice clear through the Earth, through your feet, legs, and torso, then into the tinfoil hat. There it will be reflected and focused, like any good parabolic mirror will do, straight onto your dangly bits, toasting them like chestnuts on a winter's fire - just a lot quicker!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Are you crazy??? Look, if the solar flare hits at night, as it will for the US, the Sun will be on the other side of the planet, and all that radiation will slice clear through the Earth, through your feet, legs, and torso, then into the tinfoil hat. There it will be reflected and focused, like any good parabolic mirror will do, straight onto your dangly bits, toasting them like chestnuts on a winter's fire - just a lot quicker!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Solar flare set to hit @ midnight EST, every body get out your tinfoil hats.
For the next 3 days, any issues you have with CodeProject - and I mean any, from uni-voters, missing rep points, UI/UX issues to the colour of the Reply button will henceforth be the fault of the Solar Flare. I'll see you in a few days. I'm having a holiday!
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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For the next 3 days, any issues you have with CodeProject - and I mean any, from uni-voters, missing rep points, UI/UX issues to the colour of the Reply button will henceforth be the fault of the Solar Flare. I'll see you in a few days. I'm having a holiday!
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Go ahead, Chris - you've earned it. But I'm going to blame it on my cable company's failure to install adequate shielding on their lines. I love tormenting them whenever I have the opportunity.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Solar flare set to hit @ midnight EST, every body get out your tinfoil hats.
speaking of solar flares, I see so many articles regarding how this bad thing or that bad thing could happen. I'm fully aware of what an induced electromagnetic field can do to electronics (otherwise known as EMP - gasp). But, Roger maybe, anyone explain to me how a solar flare disrupts power grids? Seems to me that the emf of a power line would drawf anything coming via space. I see in 1989 Quebec's power grid went down due to a flare. How and why?
Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Are you crazy??? Look, if the solar flare hits at night, as it will for the US, the Sun will be on the other side of the planet, and all that radiation will slice clear through the Earth, through your feet, legs, and torso, then into the tinfoil hat. There it will be reflected and focused, like any good parabolic mirror will do, straight onto your dangly bits, toasting them like chestnuts on a winter's fire - just a lot quicker!
Will Rogers never met me.
I'm gettin out the marshmellows...yum! :) And of course the tin foil hat.
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speaking of solar flares, I see so many articles regarding how this bad thing or that bad thing could happen. I'm fully aware of what an induced electromagnetic field can do to electronics (otherwise known as EMP - gasp). But, Roger maybe, anyone explain to me how a solar flare disrupts power grids? Seems to me that the emf of a power line would drawf anything coming via space. I see in 1989 Quebec's power grid went down due to a flare. How and why?
Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
They disrupt power lines by pushing too much charge in them. Imagine pumping 11000v through a domestic appliance rated at 240v or 110v; now scale it up. In the UK, the National Grid (according to an Horizon programme I saw last week), stop all maintenance and open all power lines, even the unneeded ones so that the flares drain through the whole network; the programme likened it to a storm drain; but it would be more appropriate to say that the whole network becomes a kind of super lightning conductor. Besides which, flares are so 1970s! :cool:
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They disrupt power lines by pushing too much charge in them. Imagine pumping 11000v through a domestic appliance rated at 240v or 110v; now scale it up. In the UK, the National Grid (according to an Horizon programme I saw last week), stop all maintenance and open all power lines, even the unneeded ones so that the flares drain through the whole network; the programme likened it to a storm drain; but it would be more appropriate to say that the whole network becomes a kind of super lightning conductor. Besides which, flares are so 1970s! :cool:
Agreed, I just never had read anything. I poked around a bit, just not believing that there really is that large of an issue. But, the problem is that the power lines and pipelines are really long, allowing for a huge collection of energy on a continental scale. One link I found has a plot of the induced currents in pipelines - 30 amps! That's a huge amount of current, much higher than I anticipated. I can see that causing problems. Pretty cool stuff in a weird way, not that I want solar armageddon or anything.
Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
