catbirdseat Posted October 23, 2003 Posted October 23, 2003 If you live in Seattle, it is unlikely you are going to see anything. Better plan a road trip to Yakima. Quote
willstrickland Posted October 23, 2003 Posted October 23, 2003 I'm praying for the clouds to move out up here so I can get some good slides. Â The Fairbanks News-Miner newspaper has an aurora forecast in it all the time and UAF has a dept focused on studying the aurora and associated phenomena...worth checking out if you're into that kind of thing. Â We had a pretty impressive display a few nights ago (a regular occurence in Fairbanks, especially in the winter when there's only a few hours of daylight). Â My favorite northern light is #5, or maybe #5 x haze, #5 x matanuska is good, as is #5 x blueberry Quote
Necronomicon Posted October 23, 2003 Posted October 23, 2003 I thought this was going to be about THE CHRONIC!!! Quote
bDubyaH Posted October 23, 2003 Posted October 23, 2003 we've had pretty good NL's off and on for the last couple of weeks in AK. not the best ones i've ever seen but they add great atmosphere when kickin back on the beach with a case of bend's finest a bottle of jameson a bonfire and a few friends. Quote
Distel32 Posted October 23, 2003 Posted October 23, 2003 Necronomicon said: I thought this was going to be about THE CHRONIC!!! Â yeah I was disspointed......saw the thread, thought Erik would be all up on this and he could hook me up..... Quote
ChestBeater Posted October 23, 2003 Posted October 23, 2003 Let's get our druggie graemlins straight people:  refers to LSD, mushrooms, other psychadelics  refers to DA CHRONIC!  refers to heroin obviously.  or am I wrong on this? Quote
hakioawa Posted October 23, 2003 Posted October 23, 2003 Seeing as how this story comes from fox news, we can safely assume: Â 1) Proof the Iraqis were developeing Nucular weapons. After all the sun is a giant fusion reactor. 2) The liberal media is hiding the facts. 3) Yet another reason to expand our militry presence in space. Â Â Quote
JoshK Posted October 23, 2003 Posted October 23, 2003 hakioawa said: Seeing as how this story comes from fox news, we can safely assume: Â 1) Proof the Iraqis were developeing Nucular weapons. After all the sun is a giant fusion reactor. 2) The liberal media is hiding the facts. 3) Yet another reason to expand our militry presence in space. Â Â Â Quote
ChestBeater Posted October 23, 2003 Posted October 23, 2003 Distel32 said: the doja  Where do you get those gremlins? Is there a webpage of them somewhere? Quote
mattp Posted October 24, 2003 Posted October 24, 2003 catbirdseat said: If you live in Seattle, it is unlikely you are going to see anything. Better plan a road trip to Yakima. Â It's looking as if we might be able to see the sky tonight. Cool! Quote
sobo Posted October 25, 2003 Posted October 25, 2003 ChestBeater said: Distel32 said: the doja  Where do you get those gremlins? Is there a webpage of them somewhere?  Put your mouse cursor over the graemlin, right click, select "Properties, then copy/paste to your browser. Unless your trying to get ahold of thelawgoddess's graemlins. They're "protected", and she's got the best stash of 'em I've seen. Quote
sobo Posted October 25, 2003 Posted October 25, 2003 mattp said: catbirdseat said: If you live in Seattle, it is unlikely you are going to see anything. Better plan a road trip to Yakima. Â It's looking as if we might be able to see the sky tonight. Cool! Â Clear as a bell out here in Yakivegas tonight... I'm heading out to the Tieton where it's dark! Quote
Dru Posted October 25, 2003 Posted October 25, 2003 i just got back from a friends hot tub the sights were amazing! Quote
catbirdseat Posted October 25, 2003 Posted October 25, 2003 Dru said: i just got back from a friends hot tub the sights were amazing! I am sure they were. Too bad, you were supposed to be looking UP at the sky. Quote
EWolfe Posted October 26, 2003 Posted October 26, 2003 The Squamish .12a? Some friends just did the first four pitches of that thing a few weeks ago. They said the .11c roof was wicked hard, and were pretty spanked by the time they got to the end of Alaska Highway. All they could do was gape at the next two pitches (the second of which is "The Calling"). "The next level" was what one of them said. They couldn't imagine doing the full-on .11d "approach", then the long and strenuous .11d layback, and then another 5 pitches (including the .12a crux at pitch 8).... Â Â Quote
CraigA Posted October 26, 2003 Posted October 26, 2003 (edited) coronal mass ejection  So, if it showed up before 2:00 am (the time they say we should see it) would that be premature?  Craig Edited October 26, 2003 by CraigA Quote
Dru Posted October 27, 2003 Posted October 27, 2003 the solar storm affects climbers on everest  anybody see the Aurora? I looked at 1AM both Friday and Saturday but didn't see any green glow but Ive seen it before so Im not too worried. Quote
Alpinfox Posted October 27, 2003 Posted October 27, 2003 Â I looked for it on Friday night from the Mtn Loop Hwy area. No luck. Â I've seen the aurora a bunch up in AK though. Mostly green and blue, but red every once in a while. Â Quote
sobo Posted October 27, 2003 Posted October 27, 2003 No joy here in Yakivegas, too. I've seen them enough times in the past, tho, so I'm not too bit in the crotch about it. Quote
catbirdseat Posted October 29, 2003 Posted October 29, 2003 Here we go again.  Top Stories - AP  Powerful Geomagnetic Storm Strikes Earth Wed Oct 29,12:43 PM ET Add Top Stories - AP to My Yahoo!   By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA, AP Science Writer  DENVER - The most powerful geomagnetic storm possible hit Earth early Wednesday, threatening power outages, disrupting airlines communications and damaging some satellites.  Space weather forecasters at a federal laboratory in Boulder said the first pulse of highly charged particles from the sun collided with Earth's magnetic field at 1 a.m. EST, about 12 hours earlier than predicted.  The storm is rated a G5, the highest intensity on scientists' scale of space weather.  The last time a G5 storm hit Earth was in 1989, researchers said, which damaged the power grid and caused electrical blackouts in Canada's Quebec province.  "It is extremely rare to get this level of geomagnetic storming," said Larry Combs, forecaster for the Space Weather Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder. "This is one of the strongest storms that we have received during this cycle."  There were few immediate reports of damage related to the geomagnetic storm.  However, Combs said, "We know that our power grids are definitely feeling the effects of this."  Those charged with monitoring electrical grids are watching "very closely for their triggering devices," he said.  He also noted that there had been radio communications disruptions in recent days for airlines, especially those on North Atlantic and polar routes.  Another strong storm, although weaker than Wednesday's, occurred last week.  The sun generates particle storms in 11-year cycles and storms of this magnitude are rarely seen, scientists said. The current solar cycle peaked nearly three years ago, and such a powerful event occurring on the cycle's downside is especially surprising.  In Tokyo, Japan's space agency announced the Kodama communications satellite malfunctioned after being effected by the flare. The agency said it was temporarily shut down and would be reactivated after the storm subsided, but there was no major communication disruption.  The G5 storm was spawned early Tuesday by a spectacular eruption from a sunspot blemish on the surface of the sun that sent charged particles hurling toward Earth. The cloud is 13 times larger than Earth and travels at more than 1 million mph.  The explosion of gas and charged particles into space from the corona, the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere, was the largest observed in 30 years, scientists reported. It isn't harmful to people.  In Southern California, wildfires already have knocked out many microwave communication antennas on the ground, making satellite communications important to emergency efforts. Researchers said safety personnel might encounter communications interference.  Federal researchers had turned off instruments and taken other precautions with science satellites.  A positive note: Strong geomagnetic storms can produce colorful auroras in the night sky visible as far south as Texas and Florida, beginning late Wednesday.  Scientists compared the latest flare to the "Bastille Day storm" of July 14, 2000.  "The Bastille Day storm produced considerable disruption to both ground and space high-tech systems," said Bill Murtagh, a space weather forecaster for NOAA. Quote
vegetablebelay Posted October 29, 2003 Posted October 29, 2003 I have been feeling a bit microwaved lately... Quote
catbirdseat Posted October 29, 2003 Posted October 29, 2003 It's that antenna that the government put into your head. It's amplifying the rays and channeling them to your brain. Quote
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