"Buckle up buttercup"...

[WileE]

Wasn't the thread title a song by The Foundations in 1969 ?

 

[Brandy]

Wasn't the thread title a song by The Foundations in 1969 ?

" Build me up buttercup" was the title.

 

[WileE]

" Build me up buttercup" was the title.

oh.. boy... my deadpan joke didn't get through in print... I figured knowing the group and the exact year was a hint...

 

[Cojohnso1]

Ok. Went outside twice. Stood there on a clear cold night and saw nothing here in Minnesota. I never see anything reported! Oops, I did see Halebob comet some 20 years ago. Other than that? Nothing. I'm thinking maybe the earth is flat?

 

[kiwigtx]

My cell phone coverage has been patchy....maybe that was it.

I was wearing my Armadillo helmet at the time.

 

[Richard Cranium]

It's Sunday and my interwebs machine still works.

 

[kiwigtx]

Covid lockdown put the kybosh on Halloween this year.

Only saw you Ghouls walking past.....they saw me working and thought better of it.

 

[MarPar]

My cell phone coverage has been patchy....maybe that was it.

I was wearing my Armadillo helmet at the time.

 

[kiwigtx]

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I wrote that because I had just finished watching the Dukes of Hazzard movie again.....

 

[QuickBpBp]

Ok. Went outside twice. Stood there on a clear cold night and saw nothing here in Minnesota. I never see anything reported! Oops, I did see Halebob comet some 20 years ago. Other than that? Nothing. I'm thinking maybe the earth is flat?

Could you see if the city was still smoldering, You know after the weeks of fiery BUT Peaceful protests??? Oh wait that was not reported on...

 

[kiwigtx]

Speaking of Buttercup......

 

[moparedtn]

oh.. boy... my deadpan joke didn't get through in print... I figured knowing the group and the exact year was a hint...

I liked it.

 

[moparedtn]

My cell phone coverage has been patchy....maybe that was it.

I was wearing my Armadillo helmet at the time.

Live one?

 

[kiwigtx]

Live one?

Dead as a door nail.

 

[WileE]

... Other than that? Nothing. I'm thinking maybe the earth is flat?

The earth IS flat. I've fallen off the edge many times... and I always have a hangover afterward.

 

[Budnicks]

& there's nothing we could or can do about any of it

the sun gives life & it has the power to take it too

computer ****, communications **** & TV ****
was bad for the past week up here
I blame it on the sun, just like 'the climate'

 

[YY1]

Poor FM radio reception lately around here, but that's about it.

 

[DeltaV]

Happy Halloween, brace for impact......

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Massive solar flare barreling toward Earth this Halloween
Brandon Specktor 15 hrs ago

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The sun belched up a large flare of charged particles on Oct. 28, and now that electric wind is barreling toward Earth as a strong geomagnetic storm.

View attachment 1186682© Provided by Live Science A solar flare leaps from the sun's surface.
The storm — which ranks as a category G3 on the Space Weather Prediction Center's (SWPC) 5-tier scale — is expected to reach Earth late on Saturday (Oct. 30), with effects continuing into Halloween (Oct. 31), according to a SWPC statement.

"Impacts to our technology from a G3 storm are generally nominal. However, a G3 storm has the potential to drive the aurora further away from its normal polar residence," the SWPC wrote. "The aurora might be seen over the far Northeast, to the upper Midwest and over the state of Washington."

Large solar flares, or coronal mass ejections (CMEs), are a routine type of space weather that occur when enormous blobs of plasma (electrically charged gases that make up all the stars in the universe) escape the sun's atmosphere and ooze through space at hundreds to thousands of miles a second. (The current G3 storm is traveling at about 600 miles, or 970 kilometers, per second, according to SWPC.)

It typically takes a CME about 15 to 18 hours to reach Earth, where the blob slams into our planet's magnetic shield, compressing the shield slightly. Charged solar particles then shoot down the magnetic field lines, heading toward the North and South Poles and bumping into atmospheric molecules along the way. The agitated molecules release energy as colorful light, creating auroras.

CMEs can also disrupt power systems and communications technology, depending on a given storm's strength. For G3 storms, "intermittent satellite navigation and low-frequency radio navigation problems may occur," according to SWPC.

Larger storms can pack a bigger punch, such as the infamous 1859 storm known as the Carrington Event, which disrupted Earth's magnetosphere so severely that telegraph wires burst into flames. Future storms of this caliber could cripple the global internet, Live Science previously reported.

The sun is currently approaching a period known as the solar maximum — the most active part of its 11-year cycle. During this period, the sun's magnetic field, which controls CMEs and other solar weather, is at its strongest, resulting in more and stronger solar storms. Other recent solar outbursts include a G2 storm that hit Earth on Oct. 11, and another series of G2 storms that reached the planet on Sept. 27. View attachment 1186681

Here comes another one and it's supposedly stronger than the one on Halloween.

https://www.space.com/coronal-mass-ejections-space-weather-forecasting

 

[Hey-O]

 

[Budnicks]

the "sun" is not happy, lots of solar flares
now with storms brewing

we are just a speck in the solar system

not a freaken' thing we can do about any of it either

(the douches in DC are all crying wolf)