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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 88524 10-23-2012 09:48 PM

Via NASA: “The sun belted out the most powerful type of solar flare Monday night, known as an X-class flare (the weaker flare classes are M-class, medium-sized, and C-class, small-sized). It was the latest in a flurry of 4 flares hurled out by the sun since the weekend.

Fortunately, the X-class flare was not directed at Earth. But space weather forecasters caution the very active sunspot region - known as AR1598 - responsible for these flares is slowly rotating towards Earth in the coming days."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capi...#pagebreak

Pi Infinity User ID: 3.14159265 10-23-2012 09:53 PM

LoP Guest Wrote:

Fortunately, the X-class flare was not directed at Earth. But space weather forecasters caution the very active sunspot region - known as AR1598 - responsible for these flares is slowly rotating towards Earth in the coming days."

Even if it was directed at us....
Do you remember early this year the x5 that DIRECTLY hit us
and not a damn thing happened...
just saying

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 88524 10-24-2012 09:41 AM

Pi Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
Fortunately, the X-class flare was not directed at Earth. But space weather forecasters caution the very active sunspot region - known as AR1598 - responsible for these flares is slowly rotating towards Earth in the coming days."

Even if it was directed at us....
Do you remember early this year the x5 that DIRECTLY hit us
and not a damn thing happened...
just saying

That's very interesting....but, stupid.

**great-grandfather**

it might get a little dicey !!!......

http://spaceweather.com/

**great-grandfather**

quote !!!.......

The sun unleased a powerful solar flare late Monday (Oct. 22), releasing waves of radiation into space that have already caused a short radio blackout on Earth.

The flare erupted from the sunspot AR 11598 (short for Active Region 11598), and reached peak brightness at 11:22 p.m. EDT (0322 GMT this morning, Oct. 23), according to scientists working on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a space telescope that constantly monitors the sun with high-definition cameras. It ranked as an X1.8 solar flare, one of the strongest types of solar flares, according to the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) run by NOAA and the National Weather Service.

The same sunspot produced three strong flares before this one in just the two days since it became visible from Earth's perspective. "This means more flares are probably in the offing, and they will become increasingly Earth-directed as the sunspot turns toward our planet in the days ahead," astronomer Tony Phillips wrote on Spaceweather.com, a website that tracks skywatching and space weather events.

**Rager** lop guest User ID: 129218 10-24-2012 09:48 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

Pi Wrote:
LoP Guest Wrote:
Fortunately, the X-class flare was not directed at Earth. But space weather forecasters caution the very active sunspot region - known as AR1598 - responsible for these flares is slowly rotating towards Earth in the coming days."

Even if it was directed at us....
Do you remember early this year the x5 that DIRECTLY hit us
and not a damn thing happened...
just saying

That's very interesting....but, stupid.

Not really, friend. Not really.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 27173 10-24-2012 09:52 AM

great-grandfather Wrote:

quote !!!.......

The sun unleased a powerful solar flare late Monday (Oct. 22), releasing waves of radiation into space that have already caused a short radio blackout on Earth.

The flare erupted from the sunspot AR 11598 (short for Active Region 11598), and reached peak brightness at 11:22 p.m. EDT (0322 GMT this morning, Oct. 23), according to scientists working on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a space telescope that constantly monitors the sun with high-definition cameras. It ranked as an X1.8 solar flare, one of the strongest types of solar flares, according to the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) run by NOAA and the National Weather Service.

The same sunspot produced three strong flares before this one in just the two days since it became visible from Earth's perspective. "This means more flares are probably in the offing, and they will become increasingly Earth-directed as the sunspot turns toward our planet in the days ahead," astronomer Tony Phillips wrote on Spaceweather.com, a website that tracks skywatching and space weather events.

Time to break out the solar BBQ....

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 27173 10-24-2012 10:04 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmauN1gaI...re=related

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 111918 10-24-2012 11:29 AM

What is more interesting is that very large flares have been going off but as they turn earth-side they stop only to go off again when turning away. Not just once or twice but for months now. Some of these flares have really packed a punch but earth remains spared. Keep a close eye on it and see for yourself. Check out around 2:40 min

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZGGNgIv0...5nP2xzFTWQ

**The Evil AC** I am not a number!!! User ID: 666 10-24-2012 11:39 AM

**The Evil AC** I am not a number!!! User ID: 666 10-24-2012 11:40 AM