Coincidence? (CMEs!)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3210901.stm

Take a look, it's cool!

-Emilie
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"Lovely angry democrats"--My sister

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3210901.stm

Take a look, it's cool!

-Emilie
My monkey likes the KBA!
"Lovely angry democrats"--My sister

[Agent M]

OMG. That's SCARY!!!! Wasn't CME in the book? That is REALLY creepy.... *shudders*

*Agent~M*
"Those who refuse the Powers, become the tools of the Powers, Those who agree to help the powers, Themselves become the Powers. Beware the Choice! Beware refusing it!"-Young Wizards books.
"Do what the night tells you, and read the fine print before you sign!" -Peach.

You know whats even creepier? I was studying solar storms when I was reading WH. I felt differently about solar storms after it...

" Duct tape, the stuff that holds the universe together."A Wizard Alone by Diane Duane
- Serena

[Agent M]

Creepy... Isn't that called a paradox or something?

*Agent~M*
"Those who refuse the Powers, become the tools of the Powers, Those who agree to help the powers, Themselves become the Powers. Beware the Choice! Beware refusing it!"-Young Wizards books.
"Do what the night tells you, and read the fine print before you sign!" -Peach.

[readingqueen]

i dunno. but w/ever it is....it's def. weird. yeah, they mentioned sunspots in WH but i don't know if CME was mentioned at all. Still...::shiver:: freaky.

"It was my turn to save you, that's all. Now I want a few weeks off..."

it's not dying for a friend that's hard...no, what's hard is finding a friend worth dying for.

[Rysade]

[Birdhead]

*bounce* Well, still haven't read WH, so I have nothing to say on the topic of coincidence. But on the topic of CME: do you know what this means?
It means *crosses fingers* aurora tonight... if we're lucky.... *hopes for lots of CME, so ling as it's not life threatening to anyone and only breaks non-essential cellphone satellites... *
T

"We are philosophical geniuses [sic] who will one day rule the world!"
--Agent M
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[SeerowsKindness]

[meteorite]

No aurora that we can see here in Hawaii, but that's because last night we got the first rain in our area in... *counts on fingers* 4 months. Now Haleakala will get all green and fuzzy again, and I'll have to mow the yard...

"Thus is Balance maintained." A Wizard of Earthsea
"Condensing fact from the vapor of nuance." Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

[Nathan]

Did you get any aurorae, Birdhead? I finally got to see one last night (Thursday) --I've managed to miss the other low-latitude aurorae during my life for one reason or another (not that there've been that many) and I've never been 'up North' during any significant geomagnetic activity (or 'down [far] South' at all). For Georgia, the aurora I saw was quite large and bright (and colourful! [both red and green]), though it pales in comparison with the aurorae that one gets in the far North/South.

I heartily concur with you on the subject of 'wishing for a profusion of [non-damaging] CMEs,' Birdhead. They're fun to watch on the SOHO images and the aurorae they can produce are quite beautiful to observe (for other, more northerly/southerly people, if not for me [I do get to look at the photos, though]).

I also haven't read WH yet, so I can't comment on any coincidences either.

Nathan

Ubi materia, ibi geometria. --Johannes Kepler

Non doctrinam, sed perspicuitatem quaero.

[sharklord]

I was thinking about that when i heard the news. No arouas in DC, though.

[Birdhead]

*Sigh* No. We do tend to get them from time to time, but not then, apparently. Unfortunately. We might have had them on Thursday (your Wednesday) but, unfortunately, it was raining so I wouldn't know. Oh well. I'm sure it'll happen- eventually...
*grins* congrats on your first, though!

"We are philosophical geniuses [sic] who will one day rule the world!"
--Agent M
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