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03-07-2012, 18:38
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It's here! Argh!
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03-07-2012, 18:46
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#27
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Captain! Ensign Redshirt is dead!
Wanna make out?
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03-07-2012, 19:06
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#28
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Id hit it
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03-07-2012, 19:24
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#29
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Damn right.
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But you know I don't give a light, I'm gunna make out alright, I got a sweetheart hand to put a stop to all this b****in' and moanin'.
Nothing is wrong with being sexy unless you try to make her smell the glove. - HKLovingIT
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03-07-2012, 19:52
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#30
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Not Ready Yet!
Join Date: Jul 2011
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What do solar flares do (if anything) to solar panels?
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From the "...land of the regulated, and the home of the entitled."
Obama is the symptom, not the cause.
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03-07-2012, 20:29
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bolster
What do solar flares do (if anything) to solar panels?
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Depends on the level of charged particles that get past the earth's magnetic field.
IMO, this will be yet another non-event.
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A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. --Lysander Spooner
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03-07-2012, 20:40
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I was just wondering if it was possible for a flare to fry an array of solar panels, or if they are particularly sensitive to solar flares / full-spectrum radiation?
I ask because I don't know the mechanism through which a solar flare can knock out a power grid.
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From the "...land of the regulated, and the home of the entitled."
Obama is the symptom, not the cause.
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03-08-2012, 03:15
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#33
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yep never even flickered the lights why they talked about it i have no clue,another hoax
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03-08-2012, 04:54
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#34
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OIF 04-05
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The solar storm is what it is. We have no control over what is coming. Just makes you think how small and at the mercy of whatever comes from space.
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03-08-2012, 06:08
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Location: Central Kentucky
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Page 2 was slow to load.. thought it got me..
Guess not.
Slept with half a roll of foil around my crotch for nothing..
Last edited by SFCSMITH(RET); 03-08-2012 at 06:08..
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03-08-2012, 06:45
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Location: Maine
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I do plan on being up late tonight to try and catch a glimpse of the northern lights. They say they will be visible over a wide area tonight.
They are on my "things to see before I die" list
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03-08-2012, 08:42
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I'll find out what the effect/if any at 1600hrs.We use HF radios I'll see 1st hand what happens.'08.
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If you look like food,You will be eaten.
Rip Chad.You will be missed.
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03-08-2012, 13:04
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#38
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CLM Number 293
Disirregardless
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According to the radio this morning the sun spot generating the storm is visible to the naked eye. Someone should put on some sun glasses and go check it out. it's cloudy here today.
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"Maybe they should drink like Woofie and come up with pure brilliance." - OXCOPS
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03-08-2012, 13:24
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Woofie
According to the radio this morning the sun spot generating the storm is visible to the naked eye. Someone should put on some sun glasses and go check it out. it's cloudy here today.
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Hm -- I have a sun filter for my telescope (glass coated with stainless steel!), and sunspots are almost always visible on any particular day. Did they say this sunspot was unusual in some way?
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From the "...land of the regulated, and the home of the entitled."
Obama is the symptom, not the cause.
Last edited by Bolster; 03-08-2012 at 13:24..
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03-08-2012, 13:55
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Did my best at a photo. Not set up for eyepiece projection photography, this is holding the camera up to the eyepiece and hoping for the best...
...This is unusual sunspot activity from what I've seen. A massive cluster of spots. Eyeballing it, it looks to be about 12 earth diameters across. Through the tele, what you see is much sharper and more contrasty. Again sorry for the quality.
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From the "...land of the regulated, and the home of the entitled."
Obama is the symptom, not the cause.
Last edited by Bolster; 03-08-2012 at 14:04..
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03-08-2012, 14:35
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Const. Scholar
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Are we dead yet? Has it taken down the grid yet? Has the internet been overloaded(excluding the drag caused by introding the new iPad and iOs 5.1) and collapsed?
Just checking. I thought maybe I had died and gone to heaven and just didn't realize it. Of cousrse may I will just be imaginning your response too. There is not way to figure out reality. EEEK!
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03-08-2012, 15:02
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#42
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I was hoping I could fry an egg this morning without using the stove. Damn!
Much ado about nothing, as usual.
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03-08-2012, 15:33
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#43
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The government is playing the role as Doomsday Preppers as everyone is non stop talking about it,talking about weather issues,i bet the guberment will give a huge hoax one of these days to insure we as a nutty civilization cocurs with the issue the world is ending so they can rid the states of some population,therefore creating jobs and a better economy,Hell that will be the best thing that has happen so far from this committee,bwahahahahahahaha
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03-08-2012, 16:22
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#44
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LongTerm Food
Join Date: Aug 2010
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I am glad nothing harmful happened.....
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03-08-2012, 16:47
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Damn it all...my cell phone kept ringing, my email kept coming, and our company phones worked all day. So much for a relaxing break.
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"No matter how bad it gets, if you're still alive it's just another bad day."
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03-08-2012, 17:16
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#46
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CLM Number 293
Disirregardless
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bolster
Hm -- I have a sun filter for my telescope (glass coated with stainless steel!), and sunspots are almost always visible on any particular day. Did they say this sunspot was unusual in some way?
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I don't know. I don't have a light filter for my telescope so I have no experience gazing sun spots.
My guess is that the only thing unusual is that they're saying it's big enough to be seen without needing a scope.
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"Turns oit i had irrisputable proof i was out of the country" - youngdocglock
"I don't need to figure probabilities, and I don't need facts." - JBnTx
"Maybe they should drink like Woofie and come up with pure brilliance." - OXCOPS
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03-08-2012, 17:33
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#47
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Welding hood.
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But you know I don't give a light, I'm gunna make out alright, I got a sweetheart hand to put a stop to all this b****in' and moanin'.
Nothing is wrong with being sexy unless you try to make her smell the glove. - HKLovingIT
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