Solar Storm

[Headfry]

Tin hats on folks!

Wonder if we will 'feel' it here in the UK?

[Capsid]

Aurora time!

[Florence Fennel]

I'll ask Potty Colin if I can borrow his, unless AP's borrowed it.

[Thelma Sanders]

It might upset communications, sat navs and plane programmes (I'm glad I'm not flying off anywhere) and even satelite TV

[julesapple]

I'll ask Potty Colin if I can borrow his, unless AP's borrowed it.

Won't Colin be wearing it? When is the world due to end then?

[julesapple]

OMG Look! I'm an Early Fruiter!

(makes a change from being a late developer....)

[Thelma Sanders]

look here
BBC News - Fears of disruption as big solar storm hits the Earth
and more here
SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids

[Potstubsdustbins]

Auntie Flo you can surely borrow my hat but use must promise not to shoot arres at me whilst you got it.

If the worst comes to the worst I will bend down and put my head between my knees. It won't save me but at least it makes it easy to kiss your **** goodbye.

Colin

[Thelma Sanders]

Sky listings on the box have disappeared a few times this afternoon, I've not noticed anything else, though.

[veggiechicken]

If the worst comes to the worst I will bend down and put my head between my knees. It won't save me but at least it makes it easy to kiss your **** goodbye.
Colin

Oooooh Pots, you are flexible!

[binley100]

I know have an image of Potty relaxing ..with his hat on of course.......

[veggiechicken]

Love it Bins! I wonder what he uses as a Bookmark?

[binley100]

His tie of course

[veggiechicken]

Is that what it is? I did wonder....

[snohare]

It will be interesting to see if there are any Northern Lights tonight, but Murphy's Law intrudes - after an almost cloudless sky all day, it started to cover over at teatime.
Must say I'm not keen to see any record-breaking displays: not only are CME's a great way to clobber satellites, but a bad one could potentially fry every transformer and pretty much every microchip on Earth...
I believe there was a study done recently which said that should a bad one hit Earth, in the US not only would it take five years to make any substantial replacements for transformers, but 20% of the populace would die in the first year due to lack of vital technology ! It is one of the few natural disasters possible, maybe the only one, where the greatest death toll would be in the developed world.
Of course having your own homegrown food supply would help get round that !