Also, if you guys are interested in this kinda stuff.
check these sites out.
[url]http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/index.html[/url]
[url]http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/index.html[/url]
[QUOTE=Baldr 2.0;33941963]Those are mostly sea cables.
[IMG]http://www.thedaytradingacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/World-Underwater-Sea-Cables.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Five hundred gbps connections[QUOTE]
[video=youtube;Rz6yWuOdhkI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz6yWuOdhkI[/video][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;33942028]Unless you're dependent on electronics above the atmosphere, you don't have much to worry about.[/QUOTE]
So only the handful of people who use niche services like GPS and satellite TV then
[QUOTE=SNNS-SEAN;33941937]Fuck, what will I do without the Internet for three days?![/QUOTE]
2tb drive full of porn, here I come! :v:
Ok, who the fuck is this mRiv person rating everyone late and dumb.
[QUOTE=smurfy;33942971]So only the handful of people who use niche services like GPS and satellite TV then[/QUOTE]
Suddenly, hiccup in idevices, and subsequent Apple patenting solar flares and suing the sun.
Radio signals? Who the hell still uses the radio? Nothing I need to worry about :wink:
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;33943195]Radio signals? Who the hell still uses the radio? Nothing I need to worry about :wink:[/QUOTE]
Nothing important, just emergency services.
[QUOTE=sltungle;33942496]Wrong way around. Magnetic north is, at the moment, geographically south (and vice-versa). It's why the north pole of a magnet POINTS geographically north (because the Earth's magnetic south pole is up near the north pole, so the magnetic north pole in your compass is attracted to the magnetic south pole of Earth).[/QUOTE]
No, it is physically a south pole, but the magnetic pole in the northern hemisphere is called the Northern Magnetic Pole or Magnetic North Pole etc. (but I tend to be lazy in capitalization)
[QUOTE=Cone;33941943]I don't suppose the UK is safe at all? In the likely event it isn't, are we still likely to get those stunning auroras?[/QUOTE]
I dont think the UK will be able to see the auroras, but if the sun hits solar maximum next year, they predict its going to be an extremely big one which could go as far as damaging electronics worldwide.
The upside is that places as far down as the UK will most likely be able to see auroras, maybe not as stunning as you see at the poles though.
[QUOTE=World Eater;33943316]Nothing important, just emergency services.[/QUOTE]
and Cell Phones, and TV, and some internet providers
Get to the Faraday cages, men!
blowout soon fellow stalker
[QUOTE=FluD;33942724][img]http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/LATEST/current_c2small.gif[/img][/QUOTE]
It's kinda terrifying when you consider the size of this
Solar flare? MORE LIKE IMMIGRANTS THIS WOULDN'T HAPPEN IF DIANA WAS STILL HERE
/Daily Mail
Also of interesting note is that the Daily Mail are the only people reporting this with a PC World blog just linking it back to them.
I feel slightly stupid.
This kind of thing, if it happened, definitely could cause problems like the ones described. In fact, there was a solar flare a couple of months ago, and we were able to see the Northern Lights in Cincinnati. A Coronal Mass Ejection would be, like... a light show for whichever hemisphere it happens to hit.
And we use 3G where I am at the moment at my summerhouse and LTE at home :tinfoil:
[editline]FFF[/editline]
FUUUUU
Oh fuck, I just got new internet and a TV + Phone from Comcast. Dammit.
Sweet, if it's powerful enough we might get some auroras here!
Yay, more Northern Lights for us!
[QUOTE=Baldr 2.0;33941963]Those are mostly sea cables.
[IMG]http://www.thedaytradingacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/World-Underwater-Sea-Cables.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]
I always the fact that the internet is provided through sea cables a great irony seeing as the internet was originally developed to be a post-nuclear war method of communication.
[QUOTE=smeismastger;33952364]Yay, more Northern Lights for us![/QUOTE]
"Northern lights" is a stupid way of saying it.
"Auroras" sound cooler and is both shorter and easier to say.
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